Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical pickup system including a first light source emitting a light flux with a first wavelength; a second light source emitting a light flux with a second wavelength; and a light-converging optical system converging the light flux with the first wavelength from the first light source with a first magnification onto a first reference surface set at a first depth, and converging the light flux with the second wavelength from the second light source with a second magnification onto a second reference surface set at a second depth. The first and second wavelengths, the first and second depths, and the first and second magnifications satisfy: a first condition according to an aberration and a second condition according to a working distance.
Abstract:
An objective lens of an optical pickup apparatus converges a divergent light flux onto an information recording surface. The following conditional formula is satisfied: |δSA1/δU|·|δU|+|δSA2/δT|·|δT|≦0.07 λrms where λ represents a wavelength of a light source, δSA1/δU represents a change of a spherical aberration for an object-to-image distance change δU (|δU|≦0.5 mm) and δSA2/δT represents a change of spherical aberration for a temperature change δT (|δT|≦30° C.), the object-to-image distance is a distance between the light source (a light emitting point) and the information recording surface.
Abstract:
An objective optical element of an optical pickup apparatus has a magnification m1 satisfying the following formula for a light flux of the wavelength λ1: − 1/7≦m1≦− 1/25 and |m1|
Abstract translation:光学拾取装置的物镜光学元件具有满足下列公式的放大倍数m 1对于波长λ1:1/7 <= m 1 <= - 1/25和| m 1 | <| M的光通量 1,其中M 1是从第一光源到波长λ1的光通量的第一光信息记录介质的光学系统倍率。 物镜光学元件包括公共区域和专用区域。 专有区域包括具有抑制由于大气温度升高引起的球面像差增加的功能的专属衍射结构。 通过专用衍射结构的波长λ2的光通量与形成在第二光学信息记录介质的信息记录面上的会聚光点的位置不同的位置与光轴相交。
Abstract:
A hybrid objective lens has a refractive lens and a diffractive optical element constructed by plural coaxial ring-shaped zones on at least one optical surface thereof. When n1, n2 and n3 each is a diffraction order of a diffracted ray having a maximum light amount among diffracted rays of each of first, second and third light flux having wavelength λ1, λ2 and λ3 when respective light flux comes to be incident into the diffractive structure respectively, the following formulas are satisfied: |n1|>|n2|, and |n1|>|n3|, and the hybrid objective lens converges a n1-th, n2-th and n3-th order diffracted ray of the first, second and third light flux onto an information recording plane of each of the first, second ant third optical information recording medium respectively so as to form an appropriate wavefront within respective prescribed necessary image side numerical apertures.
Abstract translation:混合物镜具有在其至少一个光学表面上由多个同轴环形区域构成的折射透镜和衍射光学元件。 当n 1,n 2和n 3各自是当各个光束来到时具有波长λ1,λ2和λ3的第一,第二和第三光束中的每一个的衍射光线中具有最大光量的衍射光线的衍射级数 要分别入射到衍射结构中,满足下列公式:<?in-line-formula description =“In-line formula”end =“lead”?> | n 1 |> | n 2 |和| n 1 |> | n 3 |和<?in-line-formula description =“In-line Formulas”end =“tail”?>混合物镜会聚第1,第2和第3 分别将第一,第二和第三光束的次级衍射光线分别放置到第一,第二蚂蚁第三光学信息记录介质中的每一个的信息记录平面上,以便在各个规定的必要图像侧数值孔径内形成适当的波前。
Abstract:
An objective lens has a first meniscus-shape lens including a first object-side surface having a positive reflective power; and a second meniscus-shape lens having a positive reflective power. The first meniscus-shape lens and the second meniscus-shape are arranged in that order from an object side. The objective lens satisfies the following formulas: fF/f≦−1.1 LH1H2/f≧0.5 fB/f≧0.2 L/f≦1.3 where f is an object-side focus length of the objective lens, fF is a front focus, fB is a back focus, LH1H2 is a length between an object-side principal point H1 and an image-side principal point H2, and L is a length on an optical axis of the objective lens between the first object-side surface and the second image-side surface.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus comprises a first, second and third light beam sources for emitting first light beams having wavelengths λ1, λ2 and λ3 (λ1
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on a first optical information recording medium and a second optical information recording medium includes: a first light source emitting a first light flux with a wavelength λ1; a second light source emitting a second light flux with a wavelength λ2; and an objective lens of a finite conjugate type converging the first and second light fluxes. The objective lens has astigmatism for the first light flux, and the direction of occurrence for the astigmatism is the same as the direction in which astigmatism of the first light flux resulting from tracking is reduced. Further, an image height of the objective lens in the direction of tracking is within a prescribed range and astigmatism of the objective lens takes the minimum value.
Abstract:
This invention provides an optical pickup apparatus which includes a plurality of light sources, a beam shaping element which is arranged in an optical path through which a light beam emitted from at least one of the light sources passes, and an optical system which includes a divergence angle conversion element and an objective lens and is arranged in an optical path through which the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources pass, and records and/or reproduces information by condensing, through the objective lens, the light beam emitted from each light source on the information recording surface of a corresponding optical information recording medium. An almost elliptical cross-sectional shape of the light beam which enters the beam shaping element is shaped into a cross-sectional shape closer to an almost circular shape or a circular shape, and the light beam emerges from the beam shaping element. The light beam which enters the divergence angle conversion element emerges from it with a reduced angle or degree of divergence.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus having a light source unit including a plurality of light emitting, a beam regulating element to regulate a light flux emitted from the light source unit so that the an angle of divergence of the light flux emitted from the light source unit is changed to a first direction and/or a second direction, wherein a distance from each of the light emitting element to a surface of a protective layer that protects the recording surface is constant regardless a type of the optical information recording medium.
Abstract:
An objective lens is provided with plural optical functional regions including an inside optical functional region, an outside optical functional region and an intermediate optical functional region provided between the inside and outside optical functional regions. The absolute value of an amount of a spherical aberration of a light flux coming to the second optical information recording medium after having passed through the intermediate optical functional region is made larger than that of an amount of a spherical aberration of a light flux coming to the second optical information recording medium after having passed through the inside optical functional region when recording and/or reproducing information is conducted for the second optical information recording medium.