摘要:
An optical pickup device has a semiconductor laser emitting light which is in turn branched via a diffraction grating into at least three beams of light including a main beam and two sub beams which are in turn condensed via an objective lens on an optical disk at a guide groove and reflected by the optical disk to provide three reflections of light which are in turn received by detectors, each divided into two regions, respectively, to generate a tracking error signal. The diffraction grating is divided into three regions including a first region, a second region and a third region located intermediate therebetween, each having a periodical structure out of phase, the periodical structure having grating grooves in a direction determined depending on the phase of the second region to incline relative to a direction perpendicular to the guide groove of the optical disk.
摘要:
A pickup for a magneto-optical recording medium is provided, which improves quality of reproduced signals by eliminating a phase difference between the polarizations and is capable of coping with magneto-optical recording media of different recording/reproducing systems. A return light beam of light reflected by a magneto-optical recording medium is polarized and separated into ± first-order diffracted lights through a light-branching diffraction element provided between a light source and an objective lens. The ± first-order diffracted lights are compensated for their phases through first and second phase compensation elements so that there is no phase difference between the polarizations, and are, further, polarized and separated through the first and second polarization/separation elements, and are received by first and second light detectors. Use of the first and second phase compensation elements having different phase compensation amounts makes it possible to cope with the magneto-optical recording media of different recording/reproducing systems.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to attain stable tracking servo performance by suppressing an offset caused by a shift of an object lens or a tilt of a disk, despite the one-beam method which does not cause reduction in light quantity of the main beam. A diffraction grating is provided between a hologram and a light receiving section, and a diffraction efficiency of the diffraction grating is varied in a grating longitudinal direction. For example, if an incident light beam on the diffraction grating is shifted in the grating longitudinal direction, the quantity of received light in each light receiving section varies to cause offset. By performing tracking servo so as to cancel the change, it is possible to correct the offset, thereby attaining stable tracking servo performance.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus including a light emitting source, a hologram element for scanning a recording medium with light beams emitted from the light emitting source, a hologram lens for focusing the light beams introduced from the hologram element on the recording medium, an optical detector for detecting the light beams reflected from the recording medium, and a first optical system for directing the light beams reflected from the recording medium to the optical detector. The hologram element includes an optical diffraction grating for diffracting the light beams emitted from the light emitting source and a control means for controlling the rotation of the hologram element in a swinging manner. The hologram element can have hologram gratings on both surfaces thereof; one of them has a pattern of straight lines and the other has a pattern of concentric circles to obtain a widened deflection angle.
摘要:
An optical head, for an optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus, for irradiating a recording medium by a light beam emitted from a light source and introducing an information light formed by a light beam reflected from the recording medium to a photo detector, a shift of an optical axis of the information light being minimized. The optical head includes a unit for receiving the information light which is reflected from the recording medium, a first reflecting unit for reflecting such information light, a second reflecting unit for reflecting the information light reflected by the first reflecting unit and for directing the reflected information light toward the photo detecting system, and a unit for emerging the information light reflected by the second reflecting unit to the photo detecting system. The first reflecting unit has a surface for reflecting the information light thereby, and the second reflecting unit also has a surface for reflecting the reflected information light from the surface of the first reflecting unit. The surface of the first reflecting unit is substantially parallel to the surface of the second reflecting unit. The emerging surface has a surface from which the information light reflected by the surface of the second reflecting unit emerges. An angle between the surface of the receiving unit and the surface of the first reflecting unit is substantially equal to an angle between the surface of the second reflecting unit and the surface of the emerging unit.
摘要:
To read information from a target information recording surface reliably by canceling DC offsets in tracking-signal detection signals is provided. In effecting tracking servo by 3-beam method, auxiliary light receiving domains D3—1, D3—2, D8—1, D8—2 are provided. The auxiliary light receiving domain receives images formed by the light returned from a different information recording surface from the one targeted for reading. Sub beams of ± first-order diffracted light enter the light receiving domains D3, D8, D1, D10. With respect to the diffraction direction of the hologram, the auxiliary light receiving domains D3—1, D3—2 (D8—1, D8—2) are provided on both sides of the light receiving domain D3 (D8). Since signals are computed as: D8−(D8—1+D8—2); and D3−(D3—1+D3—2) with the internal connection, DC offsets can be canceled in RES signals (D1+D3, D8+D10) used in the DPP method.
摘要:
The optical miniaturized module includes a semiconductor laser for irradiating an optical disk with laser light, a diffraction grating for forming a main beam and two sub beams from the laser light, a polarization hologram for dividing reflected light from the optical disk, and a photodetector for detecting the reflected light. The polarization hologram includes a first parting line defined in a direction optically corresponding to a radial direction as the optical disk rotates. A main beam M incident area is divided with a boundary defined by the first parting line. A sub beam A incident area and a sub beam B incident area are each arranged avoiding the first parting line.
摘要:
An optical pickup includes a hologram element. The hologram element is provided with a hologram pattern including a splitting section for focus which splits light used for the detection of an FES and a splitting section for tracking which splits light used for the detection of a TES. The splitting section for tracking is formed in a region excluding a region interposed between a first virtual straight line and a second virtual straight line. The first virtual straight line is drawn on the hologram element in parallel to an X direction and passes through an optical axis of reflected light entering the hologram element in a state where the objective lens is in a neutral position, and the second virtual straight line is drawn in parallel to the first virtual straight line, while being spaced at a distance d from the first virtual straight line.
摘要:
An optical pickup converts a laser beam from a semiconductor laser (1) into a parallel ray with a collimator lens (2), and divides it into a main beam (30), a sub-beam (+1st order component) (31), and a sub-beam (−1st order component) (32) with a gradient multiple-division type phase difference grating (3). After passing through a beam splitter (4), an objective lens (5) condenses the light beams on a track (61) of an optical disc (6), and the reflected light that has passed through the objective lens 5 is reflected at the beam splitter (4) and is guided into optical detectors (8A, 8B, and 8C) by a condensing lens (7). Accordingly, in a tracking error signal detecting method using the push-pull signals of the main beam and sub-beams, an offset produced by an objective lens shift or a disc tilt can be cancelled at low cost without lowering the efficiency of using light.