The organic compounds like cyanine, macrocyclic azotic compound, azo-metal complex, metal chelate, benzoheterocycle dye, have been applied to recordable optical discs as the recording materials.

• 菁类、大环氮杂、偶氮、金属螯合物、苯并杂环等类的化合物已被作为光记录材料进行研究。