MULTILAYER OPTICAL DISC HAVING WOBBLE PITS

A record carrier for recording information by writing marks in a track has a recording layer with a pregroove (51). The pregroove has a wobble that has wobble modulation (52) for representing control information. The pregroove further has a pregroove modulation constituted by pregroove pit areas (54) having a predefined width and depth alternating with pregroove land areas (53) having a reduced depth and/or width, in particular zero depth. A majority of the pregroove land areas (53) is located at zero crossings of the wobble and a majority of the pregroove pit areas is located at peak values of the wobble for optimizing the wobble signal strength. A scanning device has wobble detection means for retrieving the control information from the wobble modulation, and pregroove demodulation means for retrieving the recording control information from the pregroove modulation. A record carrier for recording information by writing marks in a track has a recording layer with a pregroove (51). The pregroove has a wobble that has wobble modulation (52) for representing control information. The pregroove further has a pregroove modulation constituted by pregroove pit areas (54) having a predefined width and depth alternating with pregroove land areas (53) having a reduced depth and/or width, in particular zero depth. A majority of the pregroove land areas (53) is located at zero crossings of the wobble and a majority of the pregroove pit areas is located at peak values of the wobble for optimizing the wobble signal strength. A scanning device has wobble detection means for retrieving the control information from the wobble modulation, and pregroove demodulation means for retrieving the recording control information from the pregroove modulation.