INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

An information recording apparatus for recording information in an information recording medium having recording layers by projecting a recording laser beam onto the medium. The apparatus comprises a setting means for setting a preferred laser beam projecting state (Lw2) preferable to one recording layer (L1 layer) where information is to be recorded among the recording layers for each recording state of another recording layer (L0 layer) among the recording layers and a projecting means for projecting a laser beam in a set preferred projecting state onto the one recording layer (L1 layer).