Patent ID: 8164855

Claim:
An energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) head coupled with a laser for providing energy and having an air-bearing surface (ABS) configured to reside in proximity to a media during use, the EAMR head comprising: at least one waveguide for directing the energy from the laser toward the ABS; a near-field transducer (NFT) coupled with the waveguide for focusing the energy onto the media; a write pole including a stitch for providing a magnetic field to the media and a yoke coupled to the stitch, the stitch including an ABS-facing surface, a sloped surface, and a NFT-facing surface between the ABS-facing surface and the sloped surface, the NFT-facing surface being substantially parallel to the NFT, the sloped surface being sloped at an angle of at least twenty-five degrees and not more than sixty-five degrees with respect to the NFT-facing surface; and at least one coil for energizing the write pole.