A slider for an optical head for signal recording and/or reproduction on or
from a recording medium which, even if reduced in size, assures optimum
signal recording and/or reproduction on or from a recording medium, and
which may be produced readily. The slider for the optical head includes a
slider member for floating and running over a recording medium during
recording and/or reproduction of information signals for the recording
medium, an optical lens bonded to the slider member and a magnetic field
generating unit provided on a surface of the slider member carrying the
optical lens facing the recording medium. The slider member is formed with
a terminal groove opened in a its surface facing the recording medium and
in its lateral surface, with an electrically conductive material being
charged in the terminal groove. The electrically conductive material
charged forms a terminal electrically connected to the magnetic field
generating unit. One end of the terminal faces to outside of the slider
member from a lateral surface of the slider member.
