OPTICALLY READABLE VIDEODISC WITH APPARATUS FOR RECORDING ON/READING FROM SAME

摘要

Disclosed is a record carrier for optically detectable data storage, apparatus for manufacturing such a record carrier and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on such a record carrier. The record carrier is provided with periodic track variations whose period corresponds to a frequency for which the power spectrum of the digitally coded information substantially exhibits a zero point. When scanned by a beam of radiation, the periodic track variations produce periodic modulation in the beam of a frequency corresponding to the period of the track variations in order to generate a clock signal of a frequency equal to the bit frequency during recording or reproduction.