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(Invited Paper) 9. Design and Simulation of Rewritable Phase Change Optical Disk T. C. CHONG, L. P. SHI, Z. R. LI, R. ZHAO Data Storage Institute, Singapore DSI Building, 5, Engineering Drive 1, (off Kent Ridge Crescent, NUS) Singapore 117608 ABSTRACT The optical, thermal and crystallization modeling of phase change optical disk is discussed. A design software which provides an integrated environment taking into account the optical, thermal and crystallization properties of phase change optical disks has been developed. The software can be used to simulate reading, writing and erasing processes. As two examples, disk structures for blue laser and near field phase change recording are analyzed. Proceedings of The 11th Symposium on Phase Change Optical Information Storage PCOS’99 Proceedings of PCOS’99,25-26 November 1999 Design and Simulation of Rewritable Phase Change Optical Disk T. C. CHONG, L. P. SHI, Z. R. LI, R. ZHAO Data Storage Institute, Singapore DSI Building, 5, Engineering Drive 1, (off Kent Ridge Crescent, NUS) Singapore 117608 1. INTRODUCTION Rewritable phase change optical disks are expected to play an important role for the demand of high-density, high-speed and low cost data storage in multimedia applications. Phase change recording uses a single laser at different powers to read, write, and erase micrometer-sized bits in the recording media. In the writing process, an amorphous mark is formed by heating the material film with sufficient laser power to melt the material over its melting point and by rapid qu