Patent ID: 7826333

Claim:
An optical recording medium comprising: a substrate, an optically transparent cover layer on which a laser light is incident from outside, and at least three information layers which are placed between the substrate and the cover layer with an optically transparent spacer layer interposed between the information layers, wherein at least one information layer from among the information layers, excluding an information layer arranged closest to the substrate and an information layer adjacent to the information layer arranged closest to the substrate, has asymmetrical reflection characteristics in which reflectance on the substrate side when light incident from the substrate side is reflected on the information layer toward the substrate side is lower than the reflectance on the cover layer side when light incident from the cover layer side is reflected on the information layer toward the cover layer side, and the reflectance on the substrate side of the information layer having the asymmetrical reflection characteristics is equal to or less than 90% of the reflectance on the cover layer side.