This paper describes the read-write and wear characteristics of the magnetic thin film head for VCR, which is designed to consist of only inorganic materiels and to resist high temperature heat treatment. The thin film head has the sufficient performance for use of video head: its characteristics are low inductance, low direct current resistance, high carrier to noise ratio at 21MHz carrier frequency, and good abrasion resistance with metal evaporated tape at 10.1 m/sec relative tape-head speed.
Recently, great progress has been made in the high-density digital magnetic recording technique. The consumer-use digital VCR using metal evaporated tape is built as a trial. Electro-magnetic characteristics of the VCR is also investigated. As a result, it is shown that setting level of recording current is very important to satisfy the characteristics of the VCR such as output level, over-write ratio and waveform asymmetry. Relations between the waveform asymmetry and gap length of the recording head are clarified, and it is also shown that the waveform asymmetry of the signal recorded with wide-gap head can be compensated by the recording equalizer.
To increase storage capacity and data transfer rate in the optical mass storage system, we have been studying multiplexed holographic recording in the SBN single crystal. The diffraction efficiency analysis gives the optimum crystal thickness and angular selectivity of holograms. To obtain high SNR reconstructed image, we determined the object and reference beam characteristics. These analysis and characterization result in angle-multiplexed storage of 16 holograms with 0.3% diffraction efficiency and 0.3° angular selectivity.