Parametric Comparison of Modeled and Measured Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Using a Common Signal-to-Noise Metric

The auto-correlation signal-to-noise (ACSN) method is employed on micromagnetically modeled heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) readback waveforms and compared with experimental ACSN data. The breakdown between transition signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and remanence SNR is provided for both modeled and measured data. Good agreement is observed between both simulated and experimental SNRs as a fun...