摘要:
An objective lens element that can suppress occurrence of an aberration is disclosed. Sawtooth-like diffraction structures having different height and cycles (pitches) are provided on an inner part R21 and an outer part R22, respectively. A curved surface M211 extending at an intermediate level of recesses and projections of the sawtooth-like diffraction structure provided on the inner part R21, and a curved surface M212 extending at an intermediate level of recesses and projections of the sawtooth-like diffraction structure provided on the outer part R22 are smoothly connected to each other. Even when wavelength of the light source and/or the environmental temperature change, a phase shift does not occur between the inner part R21 and the outer part R22, and a decrease in diffraction efficiency and occurrence of an aberration can be suppressed.
摘要:
An optical element which has optical steps each providing a phase difference to transmitted light and has low light amount loss and a high efficiency is provided. The optical element includes a symmetry axis, a plurality of optically functional surfaces which are ring-shaped regions around the symmetry axis, and a plurality of wall regions connecting the optically functional surfaces to each other. The optically functional surfaces and the wall regions constitute the optical steps. On a cross-section taken by, as a cutting plane, a plane including the symmetry axis, the contour line of each wall region is substantially parallel to a light beam which is incident on the optically functional surface on the outer side and passes near the wall region. The maximum value of the angle between the symmetry axis and the light beam passing near the wall region is equal to or more than 25 degrees.
摘要:
An objective lens element which can obtain appropriate spot performance only by simple position adjustment, and an optical pickup device using the objective lens element are provided. In the objective lens element, an amount of a generated third-order astigmatism of a spot which is formed when symmetry axes of optically functional surfaces are located parallel to the normal line of a base plate and an incident light beam incident such that a central light beam thereof is tilted at 0.5 degree with respect to the normal line of the base plate is converged, is reduced to be less than an amount of a generated spherical aberration of a spot which is formed when the symmetry axes of the optically functional surface are located parallel to the normal line of the base plate and an incident light beam incident parallel to the normal line of the base plate is converged.
摘要:
A diffractive optical element includes a first optical part and a second optical part bonded to each other with a bonded surface therebetween configured as a diffraction surface. In this diffractive optical element, the diffraction order of diffracted light with the largest quantity of light out of diffracted light for one of a plurality of kinds of laser beams obtained on the diffraction surface is different from the diffraction order for at least another laser beam.
摘要:
An optical pickup 1 includes a collimator lens 13 for changing the shape of a laser light by moving on the optical axis AX from a base point. An objective lens 15 is set so as to form a spot of which size, when the collimator lens 13 is located at the base point, is minimum at a point apart from the light source side surface of an information recording medium 20 by a distance of Lc defined by an expression (1): Lc=(L0+Ln)/2 (1), wherein Lc is named as a thickness to the designed center; L0 is a distance between the light source side surface of the information recoding medium and an information recording face located nearest to the light source side surface; and Ln is a distance between the light source side surface of the information recording medium and an information recording face located farthest from the light source side surface.
摘要:
An optical pickup (1) includes a light source (6) capable of emitting laser beams of various wavelengths and an objective optical system (2). The objective optical system (2) includes at least two wavefront conversion surfaces (13a) and (16a) and an objective lens (10). The at least two wavefront conversion surfaces (13a) and (16a) convert a wavefront of any laser beam entered therein into a different wavefront in response to the kind of an optical information recording medium (3) corresponding to the laser light. The objective lens (10) focuses the laser beam came out of the wavefront conversion surface (16a) on an optical information recording surface (3R). The optical pickup (1) satisfies the following condition for every wavelength of the corresponding laser beams: |SCMAX|
摘要:
An objective optical system 10 includes a diffraction plane 15 for separating a laser light beam into at least 0th-order diffracted light and 1st-order diffracted light. The objective optical system 10 is configured to focus the 0th-order diffracted light onto an information recording surface 22a of a first information recording medium 20a and the 1st-order diffracted light onto an information recording surface 22b of a second information recording medium 20b and meet the following conditional expression (1): η0>η1 (1) wherein η0 is the diffraction efficiency of the 0th-order diffracted light and η1 is the diffraction efficiency of the 1st-order diffracted light.
摘要:
An optical pickup lens device includes, in the order from the light source side, a collimating lens for converting a bundle of rays into parallel rays or predetermined convergent or divergent rays, the collimating lens being movably held along a direction of an optical axis of a bundle of rays emitted from a light source; an aberration correcting element for allowing a bundle of rays emitted from the collimating lens to be transmitted therethrough; and an objective lens element having a numerical aperture of 0.8 or more, and converging a bundle of rays coming from the aberration correcting element onto the information recording medium to form a spot. The aberration correcting element and the objective lens element are integrally held together in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis so as to perform tracking on the information recording medium, and satisfy predetermined conditions.
摘要:
An optical pickup lens device includes, in the order from the light source side, collimating means for converting a bundle of rays into parallel rays or predetermined convergent or divergent rays, the collimating means being movably held along a direction of an optical axis of a bundle of rays emitted from a light source; an aberration correcting element for allowing a bundle of rays emitted from the collimating means to be transmitted therethrough; and an objective lens element having a numerical aperture of 0.8 or more, and converging a bundle of rays coming from the aberration correcting element onto the information recording medium to form a spot. The aberration correcting element and the objective lens element are integrally held together in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis so as to perform tracking on the information recording medium, and satisfy predetermined conditions.
摘要:
An optical pickup device is provided which is compatible with at least two types of optical disc standards having different NAs and which controls an effective NA when a light beam for an optical disc standard having a relatively small NA is converged, thereby forming a desired spot. An inner part 131B and an outer part 131F of an objective lens element 143 are provided with diffraction structures different from each other. A condition (1), DO11×DO12>0, and a condition (2), DO21×DO22