OPTICAL DISC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

摘要

An optical disc and its manufacturing method in which humps may be prohibited from being formed on an outer rim area of the disc to assure optimum surface properties of a light transmitting layer of the disc to contribute to further increase in recording capacity. On a substrate 2 of an optical disc 1 are sequentially formed a recording portion 6 and a light transmitting layer 5. The light falls on the light transmitting layer 5 to record and/or reproduce information signals for a signal recording area 6a of the substrate 2. The radial distance D from the outermost rim of the substrate 2 to the signal recording area 6a is selected to be larger than the radial width L of a hump 5a formed on the outer rim of the light transmitting layer 5. The hump 5a has a height h from the surface of the light transmitting layer 5 not larger than 70 mum.