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Overview of Blu-Ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable media technology

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This paper gives an overview of the research and development progress on Blu-Ray Disc™ (BD) rewritable/recordable media for more than 20 years. The writable BD media had been developed for consumer use like video-recording/personal computer (PC) buck-up and professional use like broadcasting with increasing storage capacity and data rate. The key technology in each innovation was explained according to referenced papers.

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Naoyasu Miyagawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan in 1984. In the same year, he joined R&D division of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co-Ltd, i.e., Panasonic Corp. at present and attended the development of optical disc system. After he engaged in the works of holographic optical pick-up for compact disc and land & groove recording method for DVD-RAM discs, he temporally transferred to the University of Arizona, USA and received the degree of M.S. in optical science, in 2001. Since he returned to Panasonic R&D division again, he has developed rewritable and recordable Blu-ray discs media with dual and triple information layers. He is currently in charge of engineering design on Blu-ray disc in manufacturing division of storage media. He was a chair of technical program committee and advisory committee of topical meeting of optical data storage in Society for Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He is now a member of advisory committee of International Symposium on Optical memory.

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Miyagawa, N. Overview of Blu-Ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable media technology. Front. Optoelectron. 7, 409–424 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-014-0413-7

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