Multiple layer, multiple track optical disk access by confocal interference microscopy using wavenumber domain reflectometry and background amplitude reduction and compensation

1. An in-focus image of an information-bearing region within an optical memory medium is discriminated from an out-of-focus image so as to reduce errors in reading information represented by the information-bearing region within the optical memory medium by producing a probe beam and a reference beam from a wideband point source, producing antisymmetric spatial properties in the reference beam, converting the probe beam to a beam focused to a line in the information-bearing region, producing an in-focus return probe beam, and producing antisymmetric spatial properties in the in-focus return probe beam. Then the in-focus return probe beam is spatially filtered and ... (Read Full Article)

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