摘要 |
An optical disk exhibits enhanced overwrite overwrite characteristics and cross-erase suppression. An optical disk includes a flattening layer formed on a substrate; a reflective layer formed on the flattening layer; a phase-change optical recording layer formed on the reflective layer, the recording layer being changeable between crystalline and amorphous states, portions of the recording layer to become the crystalline state exhibiting reflectivity lower than other portions of the recording layer to become the amorphous state; a plurality of dielectric layers stacked on the recording layer, at least two of the dielectric layers having different optical constants; and a light absorbing layer formed at one location selected from a location between the recording layer and the lowermost layer of the dielectric layers, a location between any of two adjacent layers of the dielectric layers, and a location on the uppermost layer of the dielectric layers. |