OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM AND PROCESS FOR MAKING AN OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

An optical recording medium has a transparent substrate (100) having prepits and/or pregrooves for system control signals and first and second recording layers (200, 300) formed thereon in order, which layers individually have a specific reflectance, transmittance and absorbance. A laser beam is irradiated on the transparent substrate side of the medium to record or read out information by detecting the variation of the amount of light as a sum of the reflected light from the boundary between the first recording layer (200) and the substrate (100) and the reflected light from the boundary between the second recording layer (300) and air; the system control signals are primarily obtained from the prepits and/or pregrooves. The first recording layer contains an organic dye having a transmittance of 10 - 50% and an absorbance of 40% or more against the wavelength of a laser beam used for writing while the second recording layer contains an organic dye having an absorbance of 20% or less and a reflectance of 25% or more at the air boundary at the wavelength region of the laser beam. The optical recording medium can be made by a coating on coating process wherein the transparent substrate having prepits and/or pregrooves is coated using two dye solutions in series to form the first recording layer and the second recording layer. The two dye solutions are prepared using two organic dyes which are each soluble exclusively in either a low polar solvent or in a high polar solvent.