Patent ID: 8014100

Claim:
A write head for writing servo data to a magnetic tape, the write head comprising: a planar bottom pole on a substrate, the bottom pole having a pole segment on either end thereof; a conductive coil having a plurality of turns around the bottom pole and extending between the pole segments; an insulation layer above the coil; a top pole on the insulation layer and pole segments and planar to the bottom pole, the top pole having a width approximately equal to a width of a servo track of the magnetic tape and a planar top surface; and more than one write gap in the top pole at an angle relative to a transverse axis of the write head for writing timing-based servo data to the servo track of the tape, each write gap of the more than one write gap formed with a narrow region less than 1.0 micrometers wide adjacent to the planar top surface of the top pole and a widened portion for focusing magnetic flux flowing across the write gap through the narrow region for writing servo data to the servo track of the tape.