OPTICAL DISK AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING REFERENCE SIGNAL THEREFROM

摘要

In an optical disk having grooves, pits representing reference signals in header regions of the grooves are disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the groove to suppress undesirable interference or crosstalk of the reference signals in adjacent V-grooves. In the reproduction of such reference signals, two laser beam spots are respectively irradiated on the first and second oblique surface tracks in the V-groove. Two electric signals made by detecting the light reflected from the spots are examined to determine whether they are in coincidence. When coincidence is confirmed, the signals are used as valid reference signals.