摘要:
A rewritable optical disk apparatus, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus or the like is allowed to automatically and properly adjust the optical system to the optimum focal condition regardless of the readout signal detector's positional error and the residual aberration in the optical system. The spherical aberration and defocus are coarsely adjusted using the amplitude (PP amplitude) of the tracking error signal and then finely adjusted using the amplitude (RF amplitude) of the readout signal. Since the spherical aberration can properly be adjusted, it is possible to raise the reliability of the readout signal.
摘要:
A bidirectional optical transmission and receiving module of a simplified structure and an optical communication system using the same. The optical transmission and receiving module includes a light emitting device and a light receiving device disposed with in a same package having an opening covered with a cover glass sheet, and a holographic diffraction grating provided on a top or lower surface of the glass sheet. In transmitting operation, a light beam emitted from the light emitting device passes through the diffraction grating to be concentrated onto an end face of an optical fiber by a lens. In receiving operation, a received light beam emanated from the end face of the optical fiber reaches the diffraction grating via the lens to be thereby diffracted. A plus-sign primary diffracted light beam resulting from the diffraction is concentrated onto a light detecting surface of the light receiving device. Signal as transmitted through the optical fiber in the form of signal light can thus be received.
摘要:
A masking type light control layer for decreasing its reflection factor in a high-temperature region is formed on phase pits of an optical disc, and the phase pit depth is set to a predetermined value. A light spot for reproduction is shaped to an elliptical form and two sub-flux beams on the optical disc are spaced by 5/4 track pitch from a principal flux beam in the radial direction of the optical disc. The kind of optical disc is discriminated and reproduction laser power and characteristics of an equalizer circuit are switched in accordance with the type of an optical disc. Through this, a stable servo signal detection can be ensured and repetitive reproduction characteristics can be improved.
摘要:
An optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor lasers, an objective lens for focusing light beams from the semiconductor lasers on an optical disk to form a plurality of light spots, and a correction unit for reducing an offset in a tracking signal occurring concomitantly with relative position correction for the light spots. The correction unit includes a rotary wedge-shaped prism disposed in an optical path through which a laser beam incident on the optical disk and a reflection laser beam from a light spot on the disk pass in opposite directions. The shape, refractive index and initial installation angle of the wedge-shaped prism are designed to have predetermined values that cancel the position shift of the laser beam on the objective lens surface occurring concomitantly with deflection of the laser beam.
摘要:
An optical information device used with a grooveless multilayer disc including multiple recording layers used to record and reproduce information signals and a guide layer dedicated to detect tracking error signals (TES) can always stably detect the TESs when the distance between the recording layer and guide layer varies due to selection of a target recording layer. For example, a plurality of light spots for detecting the TESs are formed by a holographic grating on the guide layer, but are defocused with respect to each other. The TESs are detected individually from the respective light spots. The TESs are subjected to an addition operation to be a signal for tracking control, thereby extraordinary increasing the defocus dynamic range of the TESs.
摘要:
Provided is a method of, in movement between recording layers of an optical disc, resolving a problem caused by an increase in spherical aberration change as a result of widening of a layer interval at which the movement is made and executing appropriate interlayer movement. An upper limit value is defined for a recording layer interval at which the interlayer movement can be made, and if a layer interval from a moving-source layer to a moving-target layer is equal to or larger than the upper limit value, the interlayer movement and spherical aberration correction are once carried out where a predetermined recording layer for which a layer interval is less than the upper limit value is defined as a temporary shelter layer, and the processing is repeated with this temporary shelter layer defined as a new moving-source recording layer to thereby realize favorable interlayer movement to the target layer.
摘要:
Undesired disturbance components leak eventually into various detection signals and reproduction signals as stray optical beams reflected from recording layers other than a reproduction layer overlap with signal beams on a light reception surface of an optical detector and interference occurs between them when an optical disc having multi-layered recording layers is reproduced. A diffraction grating having a specific grating groove pattern is arranged immediately ahead of an optical detector or in a return optical path. Such optical unit averages the disturbance components resulting from interference between a signal beam and a stray beam and can satisfactorily improve influences of leak.
摘要:
In a multilayer disc has an increased number of recording layers) spaced by spacing from each other, a generation interval between focus error (FE) signals detected from the respective recording layers becomes small. This causes mutual interference between the FE signals and a resulting undesired offset and the like in the signals, leading to a significantly deteriorated quality of the FE signals. To avoid this, in an optical pickup device according to the present invention, detection surfaces are newly added at positions adjacent to the FE signal detection surfaces, a predetermined detection signal obtained from the newly-added detection surfaces is multiplied by a predetermined coefficient value depending on the spacing between the recording layers, and the multiplied signal is subtracted from the original FE signal. As a result, mutual interference between the FE signals can be remarkably reduced.
摘要:
The present invention provides a photodetector capable of generating highly accurate tracking and focusing error signals free of variations in light quantity caused by interference, in an optical pickup with a two-wavelength multilaser. The photodetector comprises first three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a first wavelength and second three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength. The distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the first three light receiving areas is longer than the distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the second three light receiving areas.
摘要:
The present invention provides a photodetector capable of generating highly accurate tracking and focusing error signals free of variations in light quantity caused by interference, in an optical pickup with a two-wavelength multilaser. The photodetector comprises first three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a first wavelength and second three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength. The distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the first three light receiving areas is longer than the distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the second three light receiving areas.