摘要:
The invention discloses an optical head device (10) having:- a diffraction grating element (3) divided into a first diffraction grating (3a) and a second diffraction grating (3b) by a plane including an optical axis that connects a light emitting point on a semiconductor laser (1) to a focal point on a recording medium (6) such as an optical disk, so that the first and second diffraction gratings have a substantially equal diffraction angle, a substantially equal optical utilization efficiency, and different focal distances of first order diffracted lights, each of the first order diffracted lights being produced from a reflected light from the recording medium, at the respective diffraction gratings; and a photodetector (7) positioned at a mid-position between two focal points produced when there occurs no focusing error, the photo-detecting means having a plurality of photo-detecting parts juxtaposed in a direction substantially orthogonal to an average diffracting direction of the diffraction grating element. In this optical head, the first diffraction grating and second diffraction grating are designed such that lights diffracted at the first diffraction grating and second diffraction grating are guided into the photo-detecting means to form light spots in the vicinity of centers of the corresponding photo-detecting parts, and the light spots are aligned in a direction substantially orthogonal to the average diffracting direction of the diffraction grating element. The above arrangement enables to produce a small size optical head device and improve the detection of focusing errors and tracking errors.
摘要:
A process for preparing blazed hologram suitable for mass-production which comprises fabricating a glass or metal plate (5) having a surface of serrated cross section, disposing the glass or metal plate in an injection mold (6) to allow the surface of serrated cross section to constitute an inner surface of the mold, injecting an acrylic resin in molten form into the mold under a specific molding pressure, and removing a molded acrylic resin (10) from the glass plate or metal plate to obtain an acrylic blazed hologram.
摘要:
An optical information recording and reproducing device is provided. The device includes a light source for emitting a light beam, a first diffraction element for splitting the light beam into at least three diffracted beams, an optical system guiding the diffracted beams to a recording medium, and a second diffraction element including at least one division line and a diffraction surface from which the diffracted beams are diffracted. The diffraction surface is divided into at least two regions by the division line or lines. One of the division lines is at a predetermined angle against the direction of a track on the recording medium, and the regions split each of the diffracted beams into at least two parts to diffract the parts in different directions. The device also includes an optical detecting element for detecting the light beams diffracted with the second diffraction element.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus including a light emitting source (10), a hologram element (7) for scanning a recording medium (22) with light beams emitted from the light emitting source (10), a hologram lens (8) for focusing the light beams introduced from the hologram element (7) on the recording medium (22), an optical detector (9) for detecting the light beams reflected from the recording medium (22), and a first optical system for directing the light beams reflected from the recording medium (22) to the optical detector (9). The hologram element (7) includes an optical diffraction grating for diffracting the light beams emitted from the light emitting source (10) and a control means for controlling the rotation of the hologram element (7) in a swinging manner. The hologram element (7) can have hologram gratings on both surfaces thereof; one of them has a pattern of straight lines and the other has a pattern of concentric circles to obtain a widened deflection angle.
摘要:
The method of manufacturing an optical diffraction grating element of the present invention is characterized in adopting an ion beam made from a gas chemically reacting with a glass substrate when forming a diffraction grating having a serrated profile upon the glass substrate through an ion beam etching method. Also, when manufacturing an optical diffraction grating element that is divided into a plurality of regions whereon diffraction gratings having different diffraction angles with respect to an incident light are provided, the method of the present invention is characterized in forming slits into a resist film disposed upon a transparent substrate such as a glass substrate, in accordance with the patterns of the diffraction gratings, such that the width of the slits is constant irrespectively of the regions. Accordingly, the method of manufacturing - an optical diffraction grating element of the present invention enables to improve the diffraction efficiency of the optical diffraction grating element, and to enhance the optical efficiency of an optical head device. The SN ratio of the output signals released by the optical head device may be thus improved and the servo error control executed accurately.