发明申请
- 专利标题: Optical device, method of producing the same, optical pickup, and optical information processing device
- 专利标题(中): 光学装置及其制造方法,光学拾取器和光学信息处理装置
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申请号: US11068348申请日: 2005-03-01
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公开(公告)号: US20050195485A1公开(公告)日: 2005-09-08
- 发明人: Hideaki Hirai , Kazuhiro Umeki
- 申请人: Hideaki Hirai , Kazuhiro Umeki
- 优先权: JPNO.2004-060748 20040304; JPNO.2004-309361 20041025
- 主分类号: G02B5/18
- IPC分类号: G02B5/18 ; G02B6/34 ; G11B7/22
摘要:
An optical device having a sub-wavelength grating formed in a specified region is disclosed that is able to prevent wave front degradation accompanying a phase difference of a polarized light beam passing through the optical device. The optical device includes a circular-belt-like region where the sub-wavelength diffraction grating is formed, and a center portion where the sub-wavelength diffraction grating is not formed. A vertically polarized light beam used for operations on a blue-light optical recording medium A has a phase difference in the sub-wavelength diffraction grating to be an integral multiple of 2π and hence is transmitted through the sub-wavelength diffraction grating. A horizontally polarized light beam used for operations on a blue-light optical recording medium is diffracted by the sub-wavelength diffraction grating. The light path length L1 of the light beam passing through the circular-belt-like region is the same as that of the light beam passing through the center portion without the sub-wavelength grating.