摘要:
An optical head device having an optical system provided with at least a light source (10), a shaping prism, an diffracting element (20) and a photodetector (60). The light source emits light whose intensity distribution has an elliptic shape in its cross section orthogonal to the optical axis. The shaping prism directs the light to a recording medium (70) after shaping the intensity distribution thereof into a circular shape. The diffracting element has diffracting regions formed by at least one division line substantially parallel to a reference direction. The light reflected from the recording medium forms an elliptic bright portion on the diffracting element. The photodetector is divided by a plurality of division lines (64, 65), at least one of which is parallel to the reference direction. When there is no focus error, the diffracting element diffracts the reflected light so as to converge it on the division line substantially parallel to the reference direction in the photodetector. For example, when the shaping prism is adapted to shape the elliptic intensity distribution with respect to its minor axis direction, the optical system is arranged so that the major axis of the bright portion is parallel to the division line of the diffracting element. Thus, it is possible to suppress offsets in focusing control due to wave-length variations of light.
摘要:
An optical pickup device having an optical system provided with at least a light source (11), a shaping prism (14), an diffracting element (12) and a photodetector (17). The light source projects light whose intensity distribution has an elliptical shape in its cross section orthogonal to the optical axis. The shaping prism directs the light to a recording medium after shaping the intensity distribution thereof into a circular shape. The diffracting element (12) has diffraction regions formed by at least one division line substantially parallel to a reference direction. The light reflected from the recording medium forms an elliptical bright portion on the diffracting element. The photodetector (17) is divided by a plurality of division lines, at least one of which is substantially parallel to the reference direction. The diffracting element diffracts the reflected light so as to converge it on the photodetector. Here, a hypothetical line extending from a projecting point of the light source through the center of a light-receiving face of the photodetector is also set to be parallel to the reference direction. For example, when the shaping prism is to shape the intensity distribution having the elliptical shape with respect to its minor axis direction, the optical system is arranged so that the minor axis of the bright portion is parallel to the division line of the diffracting element. Thus, it is possible to always obtain an accurate focusing control signal.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus for reading out information from an optical disk. The optical pickup apparatus comprises a light source (1) and an optical device (2) having a grating pattern for splitting a light beam from said source into a zero-order diffracted beam and plus and minus first-order diffracted beams. The grating pattern has a centre portion (a) and one or more side portions (b). The efficiency of the centre portion (a) for the zero-order diffracted beam is greater than the efficiency of the side portions (b) for the zero-order diffracted beam.
摘要:
An external magnetic field device for a magnetooptical information recording and reproducing apparatus in which an external magnetic field to be applied to a magnetooptical information recording medium is modulated by supplying to a magnetic head (3) an alternate current the polarity of which is changed according to information to be recorded. The device comprises an offset circuit (2) for producing an offset in the alternate current. The direction of the offset is selected so as to increase the current level of the polarity by which the initial magnetization of the information recording medium (4) is reversed. The direction of the offset may be selected so as to cancel the leakage magnetic field.