Patent ID: 7742379

Claim:
An optical recording method, comprising: applying at least one of information light for recording and reference light for recording to a location information pattern in an optical recording medium so as to detect a horizontal location of an optical axis of at least one of the information light for recording and the reference light for recording relative to the optical recording medium; detecting a deviation ΔL between the horizontal location of the optical axis of at least one of the information light for recording and the reference light for recording, and an address detected by servo light in a horizontal direction; in the case where the deviation ΔL is more than 0, shifting at least one of the information light for recording and the reference light for recording at ΔL in the horizontal direction so that a location of the optical axis of at least one of the information light for recording and the reference light for recording is matched to a location of the address; and applying the information light for recording and the reference light for recording to a recording layer of the optical recording medium so as to form an interference image, and recording the interference image on the recording layer, wherein the optical recording medium comprises the recording layer for a holographic recording, and the location information pattern which stores horizontal location information relative to a surface of the recording layer.