In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and
comprising
a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value
as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording
state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address
pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed
to be more than 0.3.