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An optical recording medium includes recording tracks located adjacently to each other and is provided on and/or from which information is recorded and/or reproduced by irradiating with a beam a predetermined track of the recording tracks. The track pitch between the adjacent recording tracks is adj

An optical recording medium includes recording tracks located adjacently to each other and is provided on and/or from which information is recorded and/or reproduced by irradiating with a beam a predetermined track of the recording tracks. The track pitch between the adjacent recording tracks is adjusted so that the track pitch is made substantially equal to a distance between an intensity center of a beam spot on a laser beam irradiated plane of the medium and a location of an initial minimum intensity. By irradiating with a beam the predetermined track, therefore, the beam intensity is located around the center of the recording track that is adjacent to the minimum portion. This location results in reducing a crosstalk amount from the adjacent recording track to a minimum, thereby suppressing the loss of the crosstalk characteristic to a minimum. This makes it possible to enhance the recording density in the alignment direction of the recording tracks if an A/W in the optical system is 1.0 or lower, in which A denotes an effective radius of an objective lens in the alignment direction of the recording tracks and W denotes a beam spot size on the objective lens in the alignment direction of the recording tracks.

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An optical recording medium includes recording tracks located adjacently to each other and is provided on and/or from which information is recorded and/or reproduced by irradiating with a beam a predetermined track of the recording tracks. The track pitch between the adjacent recording tracks is adj

An optical recording medium includes recording tracks located adjacently to each other and is provided on and/or from which information is recorded and/or reproduced by irradiating with a beam a predetermined track of the recording tracks. The track pitch between the adjacent recording tracks is adjusted so that the track pitch is made substantially equal to a distance between an intensity center of a beam spot on a laser beam irradiated plane of the medium and a location of an initial minimum intensity. By irradiating with a beam the predetermined track, therefore, the beam intensity is located around the center of the recording track that is adjacent to the minimum portion. This location results in reducing a crosstalk amount from the adjacent recording track to a minimum, thereby suppressing the loss of the crosstalk characteristic to a minimum. This makes it possible to enhance the recording density in the alignment direction of the recording tracks if an A/W in the optical system is 1.0 or lower, in which A denotes an effective radius of an objective lens in the alignment direction of the recording tracks and W denotes a beam spot size on the objective lens in the alignment direction of the recording tracks.