摘要:
An optical pickup includes: a laser light source which outputs an divergent beam having an elliptical far-field pattern; a beam shaping element having at least one cylindrical plane and which shapes the divergent beam outputted from the laser light source into an divergent beam having a prescribed shape in which at least the length in the major axis direction of the elliptical shape is shortened; a light collecting portion having a beam splitter which perpendicularly collects the divergent beam that is outputted from the beam shaping element and which has a prescribed shape on the recording surface of an optical disk, and a mirror or the like; and a light detecting portion The optical axis of the divergent beam is rotated so that the direction in which the major axis of the divergent beam having a prescribed shape is shortened conforms to the radial direction of an optical information recording medium.
摘要:
A small optical pickup of wide spherical aberration correction range is provided. The optical pickup includes a rising mirror for deflecting a light beam at substantially right angle and guiding to an entrance surface of the objective lens; a spherical aberration correction lens having one surface formed to a larger curvature than the other surface; a lens holder for holding the spherical aberration correction lens so that the surface of large curvature partially projects out towards the rising mirror side; a guide member extending in an optical axis direction of the spherical aberration correction lens sand having an end arranged to the side of a reflecting surface of the rising mirror; and a slidable part slidable along the guide member; wherein the projecting portion of the slidable part is configured to be fitted within the side surface of the reflecting surface of the rising mirror, and the projecting portion from the lens holder of the spherical aberration correction lens overlaps the reflecting surface of the rising mirror when the spherical aberration correction lens approaches the rising mirror the most.
摘要:
An optical head which is capable of realizing a stable tracking control, even if the rotational center of an information recording medium is not located on the extension line of the transfer directions of a light-concentrating element, includes: a semiconductor laser which emits a beam of light; an objective lens which concentrates the beam of light on an optical disk; a transfer mechanism which transfers the objective lens between the outermost circumference and the innermost circumference of the recording area of the optical disk along the optical disk; and a photo-detector which detects a beam of light that returns from the optical disk. The photo-detector includes a plurality of areas which are divided by a division line. The division line is set parallel to the tangential directions of the track in a predetermined position on the transfer line of the objective lens between the outermost circumference and the innermost circumference of the recording area, and the plurality of areas are divided, by a lateral division line which intersects the division line, into a first area on which a beam of light that mainly includes a tracking component is incident and a second area on which a beam of light that does not include the tracking component is incident.
摘要:
The present invention aims to generate an offset-free tracking signal and to realize a stable tracking control even if an optical disc is a multi-layer disc having three or more layers.Light receiving portions of a main region light receiving portion group is arranged between a projection line of a third dividing line on a photodetector and a projection line of a fourth dividing line on the photodetector by stray lights from information layers adjacent to the one, on which a light beam is focused, out of a plurality of information layers. Further, light receiving portions of a subregion light receiving portion group is arranged between a projection line of a first dividing line on a photodetector and a projection line of a second dividing line on the photodetector by the stray lights from the information layers adjacent to the one, on which a light beam is focused, out of the plurality of information layers.
摘要:
The present invention provides a first light source (21) that emits light of a first wavelength, that at least either records onto or reproduces information from an information recording medium (30), a light source (22) that emits light of a second wavelength that records onto or reproduces information from an information recording medium (33), a light source (23) that emits light of a third wavelength that records onto or reproduces information from an information recording medium (23), focusing means, an optical element (28) that passes light of the first wavelength and diffracts light of the second and third wavelengths, wherein the optical element (28) is an optical element in which grooves are formed in a substrate, wherein the expression: 380 nm≦(n−1)×d≦420 nm is satisfied, where n is a refractive index of the substrate at a wavelength of 400 nm, and d (nm) is a depth per step of the grooves, and wherein the grooves are formed in two steps of depth d and depth 2d.
摘要:
Providing an objective lens with a large numerical aperture (NA), the present invention records or plays conventional optical disks such as CDs and DVDs using an optical head capable of recording or reproducing high-density optical disks. An optical element (8) is provided between a first and second laser light source and an objective lens (18) for the purpose of converting a wave front of a second optical beam 32. Furthermore, the optical element (8) and the objective lens (18) are fixed to move as a single piece.
摘要:
An optical pickup head device includes a diffraction grating for generating zero-order diffracted light and at least first-order diffracted light and provides a tracking error signal with a DPP method. The diffraction grating includes grating patterns with a nonuniform period or phase. The size of the first-order diffracted light converged on an optical recording medium is larger in the direction parallel to a tangent to the track than in the direction perpendicular to the tangent. P1/P0>PW2/PW1 is established, where PW1 represents the power that is required to record information on the optical recording medium, PW2 represents the maximum power that allows information recorded on the optical recording medium to be reproduced without being erased, P0 represents the light amount of the zero-order diffracted light converged on the optical recording medium, and P1 represents the light amount of the at least first-order diffracted light converged on the optical recording medium. This configuration makes it possible to detect a tracking error signal with reduced offset, even if a recordable optical recording medium having two information recording planes is used.
摘要翻译:光拾取头装置包括用于产生零级衍射光和至少一级衍射光的衍射光栅,并提供具有DPP方法的跟踪误差信号。 衍射光栅包括具有不均匀周期或相位的光栅图案。 会聚在光学记录介质上的一级衍射光的尺寸在平行于轨道的切线的方向上大于在垂直于切线的方向上的尺寸。 P 1 / P 0> PW 2 / PW 1,其中PW 1表示在光学记录介质上记录信息所需的功率,PW 2表示允许记录在光学记录介质上的信息被再现的最大功率 不被擦除,P 0表示会聚在光记录介质上的零级衍射光的光量,P 1表示会聚在光记录介质上的至少一级衍射光的光量。 该配置使得即使使用具有两个信息记录平面的可记录光学记录介质,也可以检测具有减小的偏移的跟踪误差信号。
摘要:
In a magnetic recording medium to detect tracking error signals optically where an optical head and a magnetic head scan different tracks, two signals having phases different by &pgr;/2 are generated and added or subtracted. By changing the amplitude of the two signals with a changeable gain amplifying means, a phase of a tracking error signal is changed so that the servo operation is conducted at the middle of the amplitude of the tracking error signal to keep the magnetic head on track.
摘要:
Tilt of an optical storage medium is stably detected even when then the guide groove pitch is reduced and recording capacity is increased. On a disk with continuous grooves of a pitch Gp, part of tracks Gn−1 and Gn+1 adjacent to opposite sides of an n-th track Gn is eliminated, forming an area where the groove pitch is equivalent to 2·Gp. A push-pull signal from the area of groove pitch Gp and a push-pull signal from the area of groove pitch 2·Gp are differentiated to obtain a tilt error signal. Tilt can therefore be detected even when groove pitch Gp is reduced and storage capacity is increased, and a highly reliable data recording and reproducing apparatus can be provided at low cost.
摘要:
An optical head device includes a light source for emitting at least one of a coherent beam and a quasi-monochromatic beam; a collection optical system for collecting the beam to an information memory medium having a track which has at least one mark and at least one space; a light detector having a plurality of detection areas for receiving the beam reflected by the information memory medium and outputting a signal in accordance with a light amount of the beam received; and a tracking error signal generator for receiving the signals output from the light detector and generating a tracking error signal based on the signals. The tracking error signal generator reduces a difference between a first signal amplitude and a second signal amplitude. The first signal amplitude is an absolute value of a difference between first and second signal levels. The second signal amplitude is an absolute value of a difference between the first and third signal levels. The first signal level is a value of the tracking error signal obtained when the beam emitted by the light source is radiated to a center of the track. The second and third signal levels are, respectively, a maximum value and a minimum value of the tracking error signal obtained when the information memory medium is scanned by the beam emitted by the light source in a direction perpendicular to the track.