| abstract |
An optical recording element having a transparent substrate and on the surface of said substrate, a recording layer and a light reflecting layer wherein recording layer comprises a mixture of a metallized formazan dye and cyanine dye and the unrecorded layer is such that the real part of the refractive index (N) at 780 nm is not less than 1.8 and the imaginary part (k) is not greater than 0.2. |