Light-assisted type magnetic recording head, magnetic recording apparatus and laser-assisted type magnetic recording head manufacturing method

摘要

A laser assisted type magnetic recording head forming a magnetic recording apparatus includes a focusing lens system including an objective lens and a hemispherical or hyper-hemispherical lens and whose effective numerical aperture is greater than 1.0. A recording thin-film magnetic head is built in the inside of the hemispherical or hyper-hemispherical lens. A magnetic recording head and a magnetic recording apparatus are able to record information on a magnetic recording medium while the coercive force of only a predetermined recording portion of the magnetic recording medium can be lowered but a temperature can be prevented from being lowered before magnetic fields are applied.