Patent ID: 7542394

Claim:
An optical information recording device that writes information on an optical recording medium by pulse irradiation of a recording laser beam onto the optical recording medium and that detects the information by irradiating a reproduction laser beam onto the optical recording medium, wherein the recording laser beam and the reproduction laser beam are branched from a common laser beam, comprising: a branching unit for branching the common laser beam into said recording laser beam and said reproduction laser beam; a pulse generating unit that generates a recording pulse by calculating a logical sum of a first pulse and a second pulse; an irradiation unit for pulse irradiation of the common laser beam in response to and during the recording pulse, such that the recording laser beam branched from the common laser beam is also pulse irradiated; a gate pulse generating unit that generates a gate pulse by calculating a logical multiplication of the second pulse and an inversion of the first pulse; and a detecting unit that acquires a reproduction signal, generated be detecting the irradiated reproduction laser beam reflected from the optical recording medium, in response to and during the gate pulse.