Recording power determination method and device

1. A recording power determination method for determining a recording power of an optical beam for recording data on an information storage medium, the method comprising:

a test data recording step of recording test data on the information storage medium at a plurality of test recording powers;

a modulation factor measuring step of reading the test data recorded at each of the plurality of test recording powers, generating a signal, and measuring a modulation factor of the signal corresponding to each of the plurality of test recording powers;

a product obtaining step of calculating a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, thereby obtaining a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of test recording powers, where n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1;

a first recording power calculating step of calculating a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products; and

a recording power calculating step of calculating the recording power based on the first recording power.

2. A computer-readable medium embodied with a computer program for causing an information recording apparatus to perform the steps of the recording power determination method of claim 1 .

3. A recording power determination device for determining a recording power of an optical beam used when a recording section records data on an information storage medium, the device comprising:

an input section for receiving a signal indicating a plurality of modulation factors corresponding to a plurality of test recording powers;

a calculation section for calculating a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, so as to obtain a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of test recording powers, calculating a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products, and calculating the recording power based on the first recording power, where n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1;

an output section for outputting a signal indicating the recording power calculated by the calculation section to the recording section.

4. An information recording apparatus, comprising:

a recording section for recording data on an information storage medium using an optical beam;

a reading section for reading the data recorded on the information storage medium; and

a recording power determination device for determining a recording power of the optical beam used when the recording section records the data on the information storage medium;

wherein:

the recording section records test data on the information storage medium at a plurality of test recording powers;

the reading section reads the test data recorded on the information storage medium at each of the plurality of test recording powers, generates a signal, and measures a modulation factor of the signal corresponding to each of the plurality of test recording powers; and

the recording power determination device calculates a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, so as to obtain a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of test recording powers, calculates a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products, and calculates the recording power based on the first recording power, where n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1.

5. A recording power determination method for determining a recording power of an optical beam for recording data on an information storage medium, the method comprising:

receiving a signal indicating a plurality of modulation factors corresponding to a plurality of test recording powers;

obtaining a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of the test recording powers, by calculating a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, wherein n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1;

calculating a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products; and

calculating the recording power based on the first recording power.

6. A computer-readable medium embodied with a recording power determination program for recording data on an information storage medium, the program comprising:

receiving a signal indicating a plurality of modulation factors corresponding to a plurality of test recording powers;

obtaining a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of the test recording powers, by calculating a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, wherein n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1;

calculating a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products; and

calculating the recording power based on the first recording power.

7. An information recording method for recording data at a recording power on an information storage medium after determining the recording power of an optical beam for recording the data, the method comprising:

recording test data on the information storage medium at a plurality of test recording powers;

reading the test data recorded at each of the plurality of test recording powers, generating a signal, and measuring a modulation factor of the signal corresponding to each of the plurality of test recording powers;

calculating a product of an n'th power of each of the plurality of test recording powers and the modulation factor corresponding thereto, thereby obtaining a plurality of products corresponding to the plurality of test recording powers, where n is a value of exponent and is a real number other than 1;

calculating a first recording power based on the correlation between the plurality of test recording powers and the plurality of products;

calculating the recording power based on the first recording power; and

recording the data at the recording power.