摘要:
An optical pickup including: first and second light sources for generating first and second laser beams having different wavelengths corresponding to first and second media having different thicknesses, respectively; an objective lens that has diverging and converging/focusing portions, to focus the first and second laser beams from the first and second light sources onto the first and second media, respectively; a photodetector to receive the first and second laser beams that are emitted from the first and second light sources and reflected, respectively, by the first and second media; and a collimating lens arranged on the optical path between the objective lens, and the first and second light sources. The optical pickup is compatible with both existing digital versatile disks (DVDs), and high-definition (HD)-DVDs, which need a blue light source near 405 nm and an objective lens that has a numerical aperture of 0.6 or more.
摘要:
An optical pickup compatible with optical discs having different formats. A first light source emits a first light beam suitable for a first format optical disc. An objective lens is optimized for a wavelength of the first light source. Light reflected from the first optical disc provides a reproduction signal. A second light source emits a second light beam suitable for a second format optical disc. A light splitter splits the second light beam and the objective lens focuses the split beams onto the second disc as a main light spot and a sub-light spot. Lights reflected from the main light spot and the sub-light spot are independently detected and then processed to correct for chromatic aberration caused by a difference in the wavelengths of the first and second light beams and/or spherical aberration caused by thickness difference between the first and second format optical discs.
摘要:
A method of detecting a servo error, an apparatus therefor, a disk which maintains quantity of a servo error signal, a method of controlling a servo of an apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from a disk, a method of detecting the tracking error, and a method of detecting tilt error of the apparatus. The apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from the disk in which a recording area is divided into sectors, each sector has a header for indicating an address, each header has a first header and a second header which are recorded to deviate from the center of the track in opposite directions, and the first header and the second header have address areas in which the addresses of sectors are recorded and synchronous signal areas in which synchronous signals for detecting the address signals recorded in the address area are recorded, includes a reproducing signal generator, a sum signal disk, a header area detector, a first synchronous signal level detector a first, a second synchronous signal level detector, and a balance calculator for calculating the balance of the magnitude Ivfo1 of the first synchronous signal detected by the first synchronous signal level detector and the magnitude Ivfo3 of the second synchronous signal detected by the second synchronous signal level detector.
摘要:
An error signal detection apparatus for an optical recording/reproducing system which detects a tilt error signal and/or tracking error signal, based on the phase characteristics of light reflected and diffracted from a recording medium, and a method therefor. The error signal detection apparatus includes multiple photodetectors and a circuit unit for detecting an error signal by processing detection signals generated by each photodetector The the photodetectors are arranged in a matrix wherein a row or column of the matrix is parallel to a direction corresponding to a direction of an information stream on the recording medium. A circuit unit compares the phases of the detection signals of the inner and/or outer light receiving portions arranged in the same row or of detection signals from diagonal positions on the matrix to output at least one of a tilt error signal and a tracking error signal based on the phase comparison.
摘要:
A high-density focusing objective lens having a high numerical aperture (NA), which can be easily manufactured by an existing technique, and an optical pickup using the objective lens for high-density recording. The objective lens includes a first transmitting portion placed at a relatively near-axis region from the optical axis to divergently transmit an incident light beam; a first reflecting portion to divergently reflect the incident light beam, the first reflecting portion faces the first transmitting portion; a second reflecting portion, formed at a relatively far-axis region around the first transmitting portion that focuses and reflects the light reflected from the first reflecting portion; and a second transmitting portion, formed at a relatively far-axis region around the first reflecting portion, that refracts and transmits the light beam focused by the second reflecting portion as a peripheral light beam, wherein the maximum angle &agr; between the optical axis and the peripheral light beam satisfies the condition of 30° ≦&agr;≦65°. The optical pickup further includes the previously mentioned objective lens as a second objective lens, which is optionally placed into the optical path between a first objective lens and an optical medium. As a result, the NA of the objective lens unit can be increased up to 0.85 while the working distance d2 is maintained to be 0.2 mm.
摘要:
A disc discriminating method and an objective lens adopting the same, in which fast disc type discrimination and stable reproduction signal generation is performed. The method includes the steps of increasing and decreasing a focus voltage applied to an actuator of an objective lens facing a disc having an information-recorded plane to move the objective lens in a standby state at a neutral position to a focus position corresponding to the disc, detecting a movement distance value of the objectiveness from a focus signal applied to the actuator when the objective lens moves to the focus position, comparing the movement distance value with a reference value and determining the disc to be a thick disc if the movement distance value is greater than the reference value, and determining the disc to be a thin disc if the movement distance value is less than the reference value.
摘要:
An objective lens device having two light control surfaces and an optical pickup able to adopt disks having different thicknesses as a recording medium. The objective lens device includes an objective lens arranged along an optical path parallel to the disks, and first and second control portions formed in a light incident surface of the objective lens, a light emitting surface thereof, or an extra transparent member. Therefore, two disks having different thicknesses are compatible as a recording medium, and light interference occurring when using a thick disk can be decreased.
摘要:
In a method and an apparatus for correcting aberration due to optical disk tilt, the apparatus includes a correction plate through which a first light beam passes by an object lens in an optical disk, a light source and a photo detector for generating and receiving a second light beam to detect the magnitude of the optical disk tilt, respectively, and an actuator for inclining the correction plate based on the detected signal. The correction plate has the same optical properties as those of the substrate of the optical disk, irrespective of the optical pick surroundings and offset the aberration due to the optical disk tilt. Therefore, while the best performance of the optical pickup is ensured, adverse effects caused by the aberration due to the optical disk tilt can be eliminated through simple circuitry.
摘要:
In detecting a focus error for an optical pickup, an inverse image generator for generating inverse images onto a light beam reflected from an optical disk is used in a focus error detecting method and apparatus thereof. The inverse image generator is composed of a semi-transmissive plane for splitting a light beam into first and second light beams, first and second prisms for inverting the phase of the second light beam, and third and fourth prisms for synthesizing the phase-inverted second light beam with the first light beam. Also, the inverse image generator has two quadrant wave plates, a polarization plane and light synthesizing plane for preventing a light loss. Since the errors due to an optical axis variation is eliminated from the focus error signal detected from the synthetic light beam radiated by the inverse generator, the optical pickup can be driven with stability.
摘要:
A projection lens system includes a first lens group for correcting spherical aberration and coma aberration, a second lens group for correcting chromatic aberration, a third lens group for providing the main optical power for the whole system, and a fourth lens group for correcting petzval aberration. The first, second and third lens groups are sequentially disposed forward of a screen in front of a dichromatic mirror, and the fourth lens group is disposed between the CRTs and dichromatic mirror. Further, the fourth lens group and CRTs form an enclosure and are filled with transparent cooling oil, thereby accomplishing a high-resolution color image having no chromatic aberration and using a reduced number of lenses.