摘要:
An optical disc device (2) includes: an optical pickup (4) including a first laser light source (10) that emits laser light, an objective lens (24) that focuses the laser light emitted from the first laser light source (10) onto an optical disc (8), and a light receiving element (30) that receives reflected light from the optical disc (8), and performs photoelectric conversion on the reflected light received to output a received-light signal; an FS signal generator (54) that generates an FS signal indicating the light amount of the reflected light from the optical disc (8), based on the received-light signal from the light receiving element (30); and a dirt determiner (56) that determines that dirt is present in the optical pickup (4), when the peak level of the FS signal is less than a dirt determination threshold, and controls the light receiving element (30) to increase the peak level of the received-light signal from the light receiving element (30).
摘要:
Provided are a read head and methods for reading a multi-layered optical data storage medium comprising a transparent substrate having layers of voxels embedded therein. The read head comprises an imaging system for capturing images of groups of voxels, wherein the read head is configured to bring the imaging system into focus on variable depths in a multi-layered optical data storage medium; and an autofocus system for identifying depth positions of voxels in the multi-layered optical data storage medium by sampling an area in the optical data storage medium. The autofocus system comprises a light source for illuminating the area; and a detector for detecting light from the light source transmitted through the multi-layered optical data storage medium. A method of reading data from a multi-layered optical storage medium comprises capturing, using an imaging system, images of sectors in a first track. The multi-layered optical data storage medium and imaging system are held at fixed lateral positions during the capture of the images.
摘要:
An information recording medium (300) comprises a first region (301) in which type identification information for identifying a type of the information recording medium (300) is recorded by recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by a given modulation method and whose lengths are longer than a length of an optical system resolution limit of a playback device (1), a second region (302) in which content data is recorded by recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by the given modulation method and which include a recess and/or a protrusion whose length is shorter than the length of the optical system resolution limit, and a blank region (303) between the first region and the second region. Here, the first region (301) contains first address information recorded therein in a first address data format, the second region (302) contains second address information recorded therein in a second address data format that differs from the first address data format, the blank region (303) is constituted by a group of recesses and/or protrusions in which no significant information other than an address is recorded, wherein a region of the blank region (303) which is closer to the first region (301) is provided with recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by the given modulation method, whose lengths are longer than the length of the optical system resolution limit, and which are suited to the first address data format, and a region of the blank region (303) which is closer to the second region (302) is provided with recesses and/or protrusions which are formed by the given modulation method, which include a recess and/or a protrusion whose length is shorter than the length of the optical system resolution limit, and which are suited to the second address data format, and the second region (302) has a track pitch shorter than that of the first region (301).
摘要:
A set of first signal light and reference light with a phase difference of almost 0 degree, a set of second signal light and reference light with a phase difference of almost 180 degrees, a set of third signal light and reference light with a phase difference of almost 90 degrees, and a set of fourth signal light and reference light with a phase difference of almost 270 degrees are generated. A first differential signal as a difference between a first light-receiving signal obtained by a first light-receiving element and a second light-receiving signal obtained by a second light-receiving element is calculated, and a second differential signal as a difference between a third light-receiving signal obtained by a third light-receiving element and a fourth light-receiving signal obtained by a fourth light-receiving element is calculated. The first differential signal and the second differential signal are supplied to respective FIR filters. An equalization error is formed from output signals from the FIR filters. Tap coefficients for the FIR filters are controlled to minimize the equalization error.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for erasing information on a luminescent data storage medium comprising A1 2 O 3 . The luminescent material is a single crystal of Al 2 O 3 comprising a first dopant of magnesium and a second dopant comprising carbon wherein the material includes at least one type of oxygen vacancy defect. The disclosure relates to writing and erasing of the information using photoionization via sequential two-photon absorption and non-destructive reading the information using one-photon absorption and confocal fluorescent detection. The apparatuses for writing and reading the information incorporate confocal detection and spherical aberration correction for multilayer volumetric fluorescent data storage. The methods also allow multilevel recording and readout of information for increased storage capacity.