摘要:
The present invention proposes a method of controlling the laser power of a semiconductor laser that, in this method of controlling the laser power of a semiconductor laser by applying a power source voltage to between the collector and emitter of an output transistor and a serial circuit of the output transistor and a semiconductor laser, enables decreasing the power consumption of the output transistor. The present invention is arranged to apply a variable power source voltage Vcc to a serial circuit of an output transistor (Qb) and a semiconductor laser (SL) and thereby control the variable power source voltage Vcc such that a difference between the variable power source voltage Vcc and the peak hold voltage of an operating voltage of the semiconductor laser (SL) becomes substantially constant.
摘要:
An optical recording/reproducing head device which includes a diffraction grating for splitting a light beam radiated from a light source into at least three light beams, an objective lens for converging the three light beams on a signal recording surface of a disc-shaped optical recording medium, driving means for driving the objective lens along a direction parallel to its optical axis and within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis, a beam splitter for splitting the light beam incident via the objective lens, a first photodetector having a light-receiving surface divided by two boundary lines into four sections, second and third photodetectors arrayed in a direction parallel to one of the boundary lines on both sides of the first photodetector and fourth and fifth photodetectors arrayed in a direction perpendicular to the one of the boundary lines on both sides of the first photodetector, a splitting optical element arranged between the photodetectors and the beam splitter for splitting each of the three light beams from the diffraction grating into three more light beams, and a focusing error detection optical element arranged between the photodetectors and the beam splitter, the focusing detection optical element causing changes in the shape of a spot on the light receiving surface of the first photodetector in accordance with displacement of the disc-shaped optical recording medium in a direction perpendicular to the in-plane direction of the disc-shaped optical recording medium.
摘要:
An objective lens (3) of an optical pick up head (10) is moved in a direction of the optical axis, and a signal level of the output detected by the optical pick up head (10) before and after a focussed state is compared with predetermined reference levels (Vref.sub.1) and (Vref.sub.2) level comparators (32) and (33), In order to discriminate the reproduction-only disk from the recording disk by utilizing a difference in the reflection factor on the recording surface on the optical disk (20). Operation of the optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus is automatically switched over depending upon the kind of the optical disk.
摘要:
Apparatus and method of recording and reproducing data using a disk to record musical performance data. Data related to the music and start times for each piece of music are recorded onto a table of contents section of the disk and the operation is controlled according to this data. Therefore, wasteful reproduction operation is avoided when there exists non-recorded areas between pieces of music or when a piece of music shorter than the initial piece of music is recorded overlapped thereon, enabling the music to be favorably reproduced. In carrying out the (sound) recording operation, furthermore, the non-recorded areas can quickly be found.
摘要:
Directed to freely adjusting an emission period of a semiconductor laser.In the present invention, pulsed light serving as pulse-shaped laser light (LL) is emitted from a semiconductor laser (3), and a laser drive voltage (DJ) that is generated on the basis of a pulse signal (SL) and that has pulse-shaped drive voltage pulses (DJw) is applied to the semiconductor laser (3). At this time, a short-pulse light source (51) varies a voltage period (TV) corresponding to an interval between the drive voltage pulses (DJw), thereby varying a set period (TS) corresponding to an interval between generated signal pulses (SLw) in the pulse signal (SL).
摘要:
A magneto-optical recording/reproducing method is disclosed which causes a laser beam to be emitted to a disc recording medium having information recorded thereon earlier by magnetic field modulation, the laser beam causing the disc recording medium to develop a temperature distribution such as to generate a driving force for moving a domain wall of a magnetic domain in the medium so that the magnetic domain smaller in diameter than a spot of the laser beam is expanded sufficiently to let information recorded in the domain be detected. The method comprises the steps of: recording information to the disc recording medium while rotating the medium in a first rotating direction; and reproducing the information that was recorded to the disc recording medium in the recording step while rotating the medium in a second rotating direction reverse to the first rotating direction.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical disk drive and optical disk playback method, with an improved capability of reading address information from an optical disk having address information recorded thereon by wobbling one of side walls of a recording track, with a wider tilt margin.
摘要:
A magnetic head device comprising a head section 55 for applying a magnetic field to a disk. The head section 55 includes a magnetic field generating section 61 and a slider 62. The slider 62 supports the magnetic field generating section 61 and may be set in sliding contact with the disk. The magnetic field generating section 61 has a magnetic core 63 and a coil 64 wound around the magnetic core 63. The section 61 is designed to generate the magnetic field and embedded in and formed integral with the slider 62. The head section 55 excels in heat-radiating property.
摘要:
An optical pickup device that is able to record/reproduce information signals for first and second optical discs with different recording capacities. The optical pickup device includes an objective lens for converging first and second light beams of different wavelengths on the signal recording layers of first and second optical discs having different substrate thicknesses, a beam splitter having the same transmittance to the first and second light beams and configured for separating the first and second light beams radiated by first and second light sources to fall on the beam splitter via a first objective lens or a second objective lens, and a hologram element arranged between the objective lens and the beam splitter for limiting the aperture of one of the first light beam and the second light beam and for correcting the spherical aberration caused by difference in the disc substrate thickness of the first and second optical discs. This configuration enables various optical elements, such as objective lens or beam splitter, to be used in common for the optical disc of different recording capacities.
摘要:
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a disc-shaped optical recording medium includes a rotation drive mechanism, a head device, a discriminating device, a first processing device, a second processing device, a third processing device and a controller. A disc-shaped optical recording medium is loaded on the rotation drive mechanism and is run in rotation at a constant linear velocity. The head device includes a laser light source and a photodetector unit and is movable in the radial direction of the disc-shaped optical recording medium for recording/reproducing information signal on or from the disc-shaped optical recording medium. The discriminating device discriminates the type of the disc-shaped optical recording medium loaded on the rotation driving device. The photodetector unit includes first, second and third photodetectors. The first processing circuit takes a difference between output signals from the first photodetector and those from the second photodetector. The second processing circuit takes a sum of output signals from the first photodetector and those from the second photodetector. The third photodetector generates an error signal based on an output signal from the third photodetector. The controller selectively changes over an output from the first processing circuit to an output from the second processing circuit and vice versa based on a detection output from the discriminating device to produce reproducing signals.