The goal of this thesis is to study the optical-thermal response of phase-change materials and near-field optical multilayer structures. Pumping laser of a pump-probe optical system is used to trigger the change of sample, and the reflectance of a continuous probing laser beam is used to simultaneously detect the change at the sample. We investigate the difference between multilayer near-field optical thin film structures and phase-change thin film layers by analyzing the reflectance and optical image of samples under different pumping laser powers, pulse durations and probing laser powers. Based on the theory of crystallization, Maxwell equations and thermal diffusion equations are used to calculate time-dependent reflectance as a reference of our experimental results.