摘要:
In a lens barrier device, one barrier blade is arranged at a different height in the optical axis direction from another barrier blade, and a barrier base is provided with a regulating portion which is at the outer peripheral portion of an optical axis forward end side barrier blade and which regulates the position in the optical direction of the optical axis forward end side barrier blade, thus forming the lens barrier device as a unit. If rotation shafts for the barrier blades are formed on an external cover, deformation or the like would be generated when the external cover is assembled to the apparatus, resulting in an increase in the requisite drive force for the opening/closing operation. Hence, it is possible to prevent a suitable opening/closing operation from being hindered by such an increase in the requisite drive force.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical pickup apparatus which can prevent an offset to a focus signal and can satisfactorily correct spherical aberration generated by difference in substrate thickness while achieving the formation of a thinner type of the apparatus. In the present invention, a parallel flat plate for correcting spherical aberration generated by difference in thickness of a transmissive substrate to the first and second recording layers of an optical disk is arranged between a beam splitter and a collimator, and in addition, the spherical aberration is corrected by inserting and removing the parallel flat plate, or switching and inserting another parallel flat plate having a different thickness to an optical path.
摘要:
An easy-to-manufacture spindle motor having an aligning mechanism whose precision is equal to that of cutting of metallic materials without entailing an extra cost is to be provided. An aligning mechanism which is in contact with the center hole of a disk-shaped recording medium and comprises a turntable and an aligning member whose aligning member has a sliding portion which can be slidably fitted into a guide portion disposed on the turntable, wherein at least one of the respective sliding faces of the guide portion disposed on the turntable and the aligning member is configured of a metallic component, and other parts than the metallic component or components of the turntable and/or aligning member are configured of resin materials.
摘要:
Provided is a spatial light modulator SLM and a photodetector element CMOS sensor are placed on the same chip, and the alignment thereof and a relay lens system are eliminated, whereby an optical system is reduced in cost and made compact. Specifically, provided is an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for recording information by allowing information light and reference light to interfere with each other and reproducing the information using the reference light including: a light source; a spatial light modulator for generating at least an information light with respect to a light beam from the light source; an objective lens for irradiating a recording medium with the light beam from the spatial light modulator; and a photodetector element for receiving a reproduction light from the recording medium, in which the spatial light modulator and the photodetector element are formed on the same semiconductor substrate.
摘要:
An easy-to-manufacture spindle motor has an aligning mechanism whose precision is equal to that of cutting of metallic materials without entailing an extra cost. The aligning mechanism is in contact with the center hole of a disk-shaped recording medium and comprises a turntable and an aligning member that has a sliding portion which can be slidably fitted into a guide portion disposed on the turntable. At least one of respective sliding faces of the guide portion disposed on the turntable and the aligning member is configured of a metallic component, and parts other than the metallic component or components of the turntable and/or aligning member are configured of resin materials.
摘要:
Provided is an information recording/reproduction apparatus capable of achieving a reduction in power consumption without impairing quality of recorded information. The information recording/reproduction apparatus according to the present invention includes a recording/reproduction circuit for recording information stored in a memory onto a disk or reproducing the information from the disk through an intermittent operation, and a switching circuit for switching a proportion of an execution time of the recording or reproduction in a cycle of recording or reproducing the same data amount in the intermittent operation, wherein the switching circuit performs the switching based on pickup image information obtained from an image pickup element, and the switching circuit performs the switching based on a focus signal obtained from the pickup image information.
摘要:
There is provided an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus including a unit for detecting the focus error signal from the reflected light flux from a recording layer of an optical recording medium, and a unit for focusing the light flux on the recording layer of the optical disk on the basis of the focus error signal. In the case of detecting the focus error signal, the light flux of the effective numeric aperture NAeff
摘要:
Provided is an optical disk apparatus that suppresses shortening of the life time of a light source, degradation of the signal quality involved in an increase in quantum noise, and lowering of the slope efficiency, which are caused by a temperature increase of the light source by a lowering in the heat radiation performance of the light source due to size reduction or thickness reduction of the apparatus. As a specific structure, the optical disk apparatus includes an optical pickup including: a light source; a light source drive circuit; an optical base housing an optical system for guiding light emitted from the light source to a disk-shaped recording medium; a first heat radiation member connected to the light source; and a second heat radiation member connected to the light source drive circuit.
摘要:
An apparatus for effecting at least one of recording and reproducing information includes first and second light sources having light intensity and for emitting a light beam having an emission wavelength different from each other, first and second photodetectors capable of generating an output, an optical system configured to guide a light beam emitted from the first light source to a recording medium and to guide a light beam reflected from the recording medium to the first photodetector, a separating optical element configured to guide a light beam emitted from the first light source to the second photodetector, the second photodetector receiving the light beam and generating an output based on the received light beam, and a control circuit for receiving the output generated by the second photodetector, and being configured to control the light intensity of the first light source based on the output of the second photodetector.
摘要:
An information recording/reproducing device includes an optical pickup and traversing means for moving the optical pickup in a radial direction of a disc-shaped recording medium. The optical pickup includes a splitter for splitting light emitted from a light source into transmitted light and reflected light, an objective lens for focusing the transmitted light onto the recording medium, a deflecting mirror for guiding the transmitted light to the objective lens, and a photo detector that detects light reflected by the recording medium. The light source, splitter, and deflecting mirror are arranged on the optical pickup such that a light axis extending from the light source to the deflecting mirror is slanted towards an inner periphery of the recording medium with respect to a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the optical pickup. The photo detector is disposed at an inner periphery side of the recording medium relative to the light axis.