Practical fabrication of an optical flying head for a near-field recording system

We have developed a new optical flying head integrating a solid immersion lens and a flying slider for application to an ultra high-density storage system. We report a practical method of fabricating this head. The flying head has a stable flying attitude at the flying height of 50nm.© (2002) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.