Magneto-optical disc system having an objective lens with a numerical aperture related to the thickness of the protective layer
 An magneto-optical disc system includes an magneto-optical disc with a light-transmitting cover and an objective lens for bundling or focusing a laser beam on a recording layer of the magneto-optical disc in order to perform recording and/or reproduction. The thickness t.sub.2 of the light-transmitting cover is set to fall within the range of 0.6 to 0.1 mm, the numerical aperture (NA) of the objective lens is set to fall within the range of 0.55 to 0.70 and the wavelength of the light beam is selected to be between 635 and 680 nanometers. 
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Tetsu Yoshio
Watanabe Aoki