Patent attributes
Deflecting means, for deflecting an electron beam in a radial direction and the circumferential direction, and blanking means, for shielding irradiation of the electron beam at portions other than drawing portions, are provided. While the disk is rotated unidirectionally, the electron beam is repeatedly deflected in a figure 8 pattern, in which the electron beam is deflected toward the next deflection initiation point in the radial direction at track edge portions, such that the deflected directions toward the inner periphery of the disk and toward the outer periphery of the disk intersect each other. Parallel scanning is performed alternately toward the outer periphery and the inner periphery of the disk. Elements of a transfer pattern, having lengths which are integer multiples of a reference value, are drawn by performing scanning a number of times equal to the integer that the reference value is multiplied by.
