In the read-write channel of an optical disk system, a significant component of non-linearity arises in the writing process. This has been eliminated by linearizing write control. However, as linear density increases, the component of non-linearity in the readout process becomes not negligible. Therefore, we attempted to analyze the causes of the non-linearity component. We uses scalar diffraction theory, to compare the superposition of a response from a unit mark to a real respomse. The results show that this component was generated by the cross-product of two amplitudes of a diffraction light. We also estimated the size of this componenet on a mark-edge recording, in which the mark was increased by an additional unit mark. To do this, we calculated the response from an additional unit mark, which was the difference between the response from the previously added mark and that from the added mark, and compared this response with marks of different lengths.
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