An information recording method including irradiating a phase change recording
layer of an optical recording medium with either a multi-pulse laser light train
having a recording power of Pw or laser light having an erasing power Pe to record
a mark having a length nT in the recording layer, wherein n is an integer of from
3 to 14 and T represents a clock cycle, wherein the multi-pulse laser light train
has a constitution such that a heating pulse and a cooling pulse are alternated
and the number of heating pulses and the number of cooling pulses each increases
by 1 when n increases by 2, and wherein when n is from 6 to 14, the last heating
pulse and last cooling pulse have a pulse width of from 0.5T to 0.9T and from 0.7T
to 1.5T, respectively.