Laser control for setting average recording power of 1 equal to average recording power of 0

摘要

An optical recording apparatus includes an optical system to focus a beam of light onto an optical recording medium; a laser source to generate the beam; a laser driver that modulates the output of the beam according to digital information to be recorded; and a controller that performs control in such a way that the average power per unit recording time of the beams used to record digital information "1" (or "0") and digital information "0" (or "1") onto the recording medium are virtually equal, and so that the peak power of the beams used to record the digital information "1" (or "0") and the digital information "0" (or "1") differ from each other.