Optical drive

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004024",
  "term": "Optical drive",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A disk drive that reads and writes data from optical discs through a process involving laser light. The drive's laser beam scans the microscopic pits and lands on the spinning disc, and a photodiode detects the reflected light to interpret the binary data. Common formats supported by these drives include Compact Disc (CD), Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), and Blu-ray Disc.",
  "synonyms": [
    "optical disc drive",
    "optical disk drive"
  ],
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "see_also": [
    "floppy disk drive",
    "hard drive"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "optisches Laufwerk",
    "es": "unidad óptica",
    "fr": "lecteur optique"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/optical-drive/"
}