INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORAGE LAYER WITH OPTICAL POWER CONTROL AREA, AND RECORDING APPARATUS TO RECORD DATA WITH RESPECT TO INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition. Optimal power control areas in odd-numbered and even-numbered information storage layers viewed from a direction in which light is incident upon the information storage medium are disposed one on another to not directly face each other. An actually usable area of an optimal power control area in each of the information storage layers varies depending on use circumstances of each of the information storage layers. Therefore, when an OPC area of one information storage layer performs OPC, this OPC does not affect another information storage layer. Also, an area of each of the information storage layers can be efficiently used.