摘要:
An optical pickup device includes an irradiating optical system for converging a light beam to form a spot on a recording surface via a light-transmitting layer of an optical recording medium, and a photodetection optical system for converging return light reflected and returned from the spot on a photodetector. The device detects wave aberration and focal error of the light beam. A diffractive optical element is disposed on the optical axis of return light in the photodetection optical system and provided with an annulus. The diffractive optical element annularly extracts, from return light, ray components in the vicinity of a predetermined radius on a pupil on the emitting pupil surface of the irradiating optical system, which is affected by the wave aberration generated in the optical system. The photodetector contains first light receiving components for receiving the ray components transmitted and extracted by the annulus, and second light receiving components for receiving at least some of the ray components other than the ray components transmitted by the annulus. The device further includes a focal error detecting circuit connected to the first light receiving components and which detects the focal error of the light beam on the basis of a subsequent photoelectrically converted output. The device may include a wave aberration error detecting circuit connected to the second light receiving components and which detects the wave aberration of the light beam on the basis of a subsequent photoelectrically converted output.
摘要:
A pickup device includes an irradiation optical system including an object lens for focusing light flux on a track of a recording surface of an optical recording media having a plurality of recording layers stacked while a spacer layer is interposed between the recording layers to form a spot and a detection optical system including an photo detector having a plurality of light receiving parts for receiving returning light reflected from the spot through the object lens to perform photoelectric conversion. The pickup device controls a position of the object leans according to an electrical signal calculated from outputs of the light receiving parts. The pickup device further includes an astigmatic device for providing astigmatism to the returning light directed to the light receiving parts and a division device, having divisional regions divided by a division line extending in an astigmatic direction about an optical axis of the returning light, for dividing the returning light having the astigmatism into a plurality of partial light fluxes divided for the respective divisional regions along the optical axis of returning light. The neighboring divisional regions provide the partial light fluxes with an optical action so that interference between the corresponding partial light fluxes does not occur on the light receiving parts.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical pickup device requiring no position adjustment of a diffraction grating at the time of assembling the optical pickup device, and capable of suppressing fluctuations in a differential push-pull signal amplitude and cancelling a push-pull offset.An optical pickup device 200 of an embodiment of the present invention has a diffraction grating 230 of a special shape including predetermined grooves and two kinds of lattice grooves arranged at a pitch determined on the basis of a pitch of grooves formed in the surface of an optical disk 50, numerical aperture, wavelength of a light beam, and effective diameter of the light beam applied on the optical disk 50. To suppress push-pull signals generated in the ± first-order diffraction rays, reflection rays from the optical disk 50 of a zeroth-order diffraction ray and ± first-order diffraction rays are detected, and signals corresponding to light reception results are output to a reproduction unit 150, a control unit 130, and an actuator servo circuit 140.
摘要:
In an information display apparatus such as a head-up display, while safety is being secured, visibility from a user is improved. Image data having an object such as an arrow showing an advancing direction or a road sign drawn on it are generated as information to be given to the user by a display information generating section 12 and is output to a projector 13. When a light beam R1 corresponding to the image data is emitted from the projector 13 to a combiner 14, reflected light of the light beam R1 and transmitted light of external light R2 are combined in the combiner 14, so as to be viewed by the user. At this time, the display information generating section 12 outputs coordinate values showing a display position of the object to a transmittance control section 16, and the transmittance control section 16 specifies a display region of the object based on the coordinate values, and reduces the transmittance in the specified region of the light control panel 15 so as to reduce a transmitting amount of the external light R2.
摘要:
There are obtainable reliable and proper tracking correction and CTC even when fluctuations occur in an irradiation position of a sub-beam in a track at the time of performing tracking correction and CTC using three beams. Five beams (a main beam, sub-beams inA and inB, and sub-beams outA and outB) are generated. Reflection beams of the five beams are received, and a differential push pull signal DPPin corresponding to the sub-beams “in” as ± first-order beams and a differential push pull signal DPPout corresponding to the sub-beams “out” as ± second-order beams are generated. By assigning weights to the differential push pull signals DPPin and DPPout and computing the sum of the weighted signals, a tracking error signal Ste having an amplitude value which can perform tracking correction is generated.
摘要:
There are obtainable reliable and proper tracking correction and CTC even when fluctuations occur in an irradiation position of a sub-beam in a track at the time of performing tracking correction and CTC using three beams. Five beams (a main beam, sub-beams inA and inB, and sub-beams outA and outB) are generated. Reflection beams of the five beams are received, and a differential push pull signal DPPin corresponding to the sub-beams “in” as ± first-order beams and a differential push pull signal DPPout corresponding to the sub-beams “out” as ± second-order beams are generated. By assigning weights to the differential push pull signals DPPin and DPPout and computing the sum of the weighted signals, a tracking error signal Ste having an amplitude value which can perform tracking correction is generated.
摘要:
An image display system includes a camera that shoots a background, a monitor that displays a shot background image, and an optical lens arranged between a display surface of the monitor and an observer. An imaginary image, obtained due to presence of the optical lens, of the monitor image is made to substantially match with a background surface. As a result, when the observer views the background through the monitor, the monitor image and the background look continuous to him.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus includes a photodetector for receiving a diffracted light reflected from the recording medium; and a tilt detector for detecting a tilt amount of the recording medium on the basis of a light intensity within an interference region of a 0th-order diffraction light and at least one diffraction light other than the 0th-order diffraction light of the reflected light received by the photodetector.
摘要:
A method of generating a focus error signal in an optical pickup device including a photodetector including a light receiving surface for receiving the reflected light and divided into first to fourth quadrants defined in a tangential direction and in a radial direction from the center of the light receiving surface and at least four elements positioned in a centrally symmetric relationship with respect to the center of the light receiving surface within the first to fourth quadrants. A preliminary focus error signal is generated as an output difference between an addition output of one pair of the elements placed on centrally symmetric positions of the photodetector and an addition output of the other pair of the elements placed on centrally symmetric positions of the photodetector. A tangential push-pull signal is generated as an output difference between an addition output of one pair of the elements placed along the radial direction of the photodetector and an addition output of the other pair of the elements placed along the radial direction of the photodetector. A radial push-pull signal is generated as an output difference between an addition result of one pair of the elements placed along the tangential direction of the photodetector and an output result of the other pair of the elements placed along the tangential direction of the photodetector. The tangential push-pull signal and the radial push-pull signal is multiplied to generate a correction signal. The difference between the preliminary focus error signal and the correction signal is calculated to generate a focus error signal.
摘要:
A reflective film is formed over a recording surface of an optical disk on which pits are formed. The reflective film is made of a non-linear optical material which, when light is incident thereon, generates second harmonics of the incident light. In a reproduction optical system for reproducing this optical disk, when a reading beam reflected by the reflective film of the optical disk impinges on a filter for filtering out the basic wave of the reading beam, the filter only transmits the second harmonics which are then incident on a light receiver. Since information signals recorded on an optical disk is reproduced by reading only second harmonics of the reflected beam, the cut-off spatial frequency of the OTF can be made twice higher as compared with a conventional reproducing apparatus. In other words, the recording density of the recording medium can be made higher.