Apparatus and method for reducing phase discontinuity between new data and previously written data on a read/write optical storage medium

摘要

An optical storage device includes a laser, a write clock generator and a read/write disc. The laser is modulated, and a readback signal is generated from laser light read back from the disc. The readback signal includes a first frequency component caused by the modulation of the laser and a second frequency component caused by information (e.g., data or a high frequency wobble) on the medium. Phase of the write clock is adjusted in accordance with a phase difference between the first and second frequency components. This adjustment allows new data to be written to the read/write disc without a phase discontinuity between the new data and data previously written to the disc.