TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR AN OPTICAL RECORDING APPARATUS

摘要

An optical recording apparatus (1) is described, for writing information into an optical storage medium such as for instance an optical storage disc, the apparatus comprising a laser diode (30) and a laser diode driver circuit (20), which laser diode driver circuit (20) comprises a flipflop device (25), a write strategy generator and a laser current driver (26), and a timing control circuit (50). The flipflop receives a digital data signal and a digital clock signal. The timing control circuit (50) either delays the digital data signal or the digital clock signal, such as to substantially align data signal edges with passive clock signal edges.