Patent ID: 8310901

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: an optical module including a waveguide and a near field transducer (NFT) proximate to the ABS, the waveguide for directing the energy from the laser toward the ABS, the NFT being optically coupled with the waveguide and for focusing the energy onto the media; and a writer module including a write pole and at least one coil, the optical module and the writer module being physically separate such that no portion of the waveguide is interleaved with a magnetic portion of the writer module, a write pole including a pole-tip portion for providing a magnetic field to the media and a yoke coupled to the pole-tip portion, the pole-tip portion including an ABS-facing surface, a sloped surface, and a NFT-facing surface between the ABS-facing surface and the sloped surface, 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.