The development of a production Electron Beam Recorder designed for making masters for optical discs of up to 50 gigabytes capacity is discussed. A low cost upgrade path for mastering discs of capacities of 100 GB or higher is shown and some recent results of optical discs ranging in capacity from 4.7 GB to 45 GB are presented.

Date Published: 7 February 2001
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 4085, Fifth International Symposium on Optical Storage (ISOS 2000), (7 February 2001); doi: 10.1117/12.416839

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4085:
Fifth International Symposium on Optical Storage (ISOS 2000)
Fuxi Gan; Lisong Hou, Editor(s)