摘要:
An optical pickup device comprises a stationary optical system and a movable optical system. The stationary optical system includes a recording/reproducing laser, a collimator for the recording/reproducing laser, a servo laser, a collimator for the servo laser, an actuator for moving the collimator for the servo laser along its optical axis, and a beam coupling/splitting optical element. The movable optical system includes an objective lens and an actuator for moving the objective lens along its optical axis. The point of convergence of recording/reproducing laser light is suitably moved in the layer direction in a recording layer of an optical disk. It is moved in a manner such that the collimator for substantially collimating servo laser light is first moved along its optical axis and the objective lens is then moved along its optical axis to correct defocusing of the servo laser light that is caused by the movement of the collimator for the servo laser light.
摘要:
A tracking control unit for an optical disk drive comprises a TES detection circuit for detecting a tracking error signal (TES) in an output of a photodetector included in a stationary optical system, a frictional state prediction circuit for predicting a frictional state between guide shafts and a carriage on the basis of the TES detected by the TES detection circuit, a phase compensation filter for compensating for a phase difference of the TES detected by the TES detection circuit so as to stabilize a tracking control system on the basis of the result of the prediction performed by the frictional state prediction circuit, and a driver for moving the carriage in a direction in which a tracking error can be corrected for according to an output of the phase compensation filter and for thus controlling tracking.
摘要:
A tracking servo system of an optical disk apparatus is formed of a pickup irradiating laser on an optical disk on which information is recorded to reproduce the information, a tracking error detecting circuit detecting a tracking error signal TES which is a servo signal acquired by the pickup, a tracking control circuit performing tracking control based on the tracking error signal TES detected by the tracking error detecting circuit, a track jump control circuit controlling a track jump based on the tracking error signal TES, and a driver supplying a control signal from the tracking control circuit and the track jump control circuit through an adding circuit and driving an actuator of the pickup. The light emitted from the laser in the pickup is reflected by the optical disk having a spiral information track and led to the pickup again. From the quantity of reflected light detected by a photodiode in the pickup, a tracking error signal TES showing displacement quantity from the center of the information track of the optical spot is computed by the tracking error detecting circuit. The tracking error signal is supplied to the tracking control circuit and track jump circuit.
摘要:
An optical functional device includes a semiconductor substrate, an optical functional layer provided on said semiconductor substrate and selected from the group consisting of a light emitting layer, a light absorbing layer, and an optical waveguide layer. The optical functional layer has a multi-quantum well layer. Preferably, the semiconductor substrate is a nonplanar semiconductor substrate having a ridge and two grooves adjacent said ridge, said ridge having a ridge width of from 1 to 10 .mu.m, a ridge height of from 1 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m, and a gap distance of from 1 .mu.m to 10 .mu.m. Such an optical functional device can be fabricated by growing, on a nonplanar semiconductor substrate having a specified dimension of the ridge, a strained multi-quantum well layer by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Integrated optical device or circuit preferably includes an optical functional device on the nonplanar semiconductor substrate of a specified range of ridge shape factors. An integrated optical device can be fabricated by combination of a plurality of optical functional devices having slightly different compositions and including a part of a strained multi-quantum well layer monolithically grown on a nonplanar semiconductor substrate.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to an apparatus using an integrated type pickup as an optical head for writing and reading optical information and capabling of writing data at high speeds. The apparatus includes a laser diode having an active layer at its intermediate position and having one area side held over a surface of a semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor substrate and the laser diode relative to the active layer. The laser diode has two areas with the active layer as a boundary and a constant potential is applied from a power supply to the insulating layer side of the laser diode and a transistor (laser diode drive unit) is provided to apply a modulation signal to the other area of the laser diode so that the laser diode is driven to modulate its output. By doing so, a constant potential is maintained at the semiconductor substrate and at the insulating layer's side of the laser diode and the modulation signal is applied to the other area side of the laser diode. When a drive current of the laser diode is varied by the modulation signal, a voltage variation occurs only on the other area side of the laser diode so that a high-frequency drive current, if flowing through the insulating layer side, is small and hence the laser diode has its output to be modulated effectively.
摘要:
In order to make a track jump from the present track to a target track, accelerating pulses and decelerating pulses are sequentially fed to a tracking actuator driving an objective lens condensing and radiating light beams to a disc, then a tracking servo is switched on, a tracking error signal within a fixed time after the decelerating pulses is monitored with a zero cross comparator or the like and further the decelerating pulses can be additionally output to the tracking actuator in response to the output of this comparator. In case it is hard for the light spot to teach the target track, the light spot will be pulled to the target track side by switching on the tracking servo and, in case it passes over the target track, the light spot will be suppressed in passing over the switching on the tracking servo and the movement of the light spot will be decelerated by the additionally output decelerating pusles to pull the light spot into the target track.
摘要:
A surveillance camera terminal includes an imaging means that outputs a frame image, an imaging visual field control means that changes the imaging visual field of the imaging means in a surveillance area, an object extracting means that extracts an object being imaged by processing the frame image taken by the imaging means, a tracking means that detects a position of the object in the surveillance area based on a position of the object extracted by the object extracting means on the frame image and the imaging visual field of the imaging means, an imaging visual field storage means that stores an imaging visual field, and detection means that detects whether or not the object being tracked by the tracking means has traveled to a position near a handover area for handover of the object to another surveillance camera terminal.
摘要:
A shock absorbing steering apparatus for use in a vehicle, including a steering column to be fixed to a portion of a body of the vehicle such that the steering column is releasable from the body of the vehicle and movable in a forward direction of the vehicle in the event of a secondary collision of an occupant of the vehicle upon a collision of the vehicle, and wherein one of the steering column and the portion of the vehicle body includes a mounting portion, while the other of the steering column and the portion of the vehicle body includes a holding portion. The steering apparatus further includes an impact energy absorbing member to be mounted on the mounting portion. The impact energy absorbing portion includes an engaging portion engageable with the holding portion and is deformable as the steering column is moved in the forward direction while the engaging portion is held in engagement with the holding portion, whereby the impact energy absorbing member absorbs an impact energy generated by the secondary collision.
摘要:
An optical switch of the present invention includes at least one input optical fiber, output optical fibers, at least one movable mirror for directing a light beam from the input optical fiber selectively to one of the output optical fibers, and at least one shutter for appropriately intercepting the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror from the input optical fiber. A direction of the movable mirror is changeable, and the direction of the movable mirror is changed to switch the output optical fiber that combines with the light beam reflected by the movable mirror. The shutter intercepts the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror while the direction of the movable mirror is changed.
摘要:
Collision-energy-absorbing means of an impact-absorbing steering column apparatus includes guide slots 31a1 and 31b1, guide slots 31a2 and 31b2, and transition portions 31a3 and 31b3, as well as energy-absorbing members 36 and 37, so as to change absorption load for secondary collision energy. A collar 42 plastically deforms the energy-absorbing member 36 or 37, thereby absorbing secondary collision energy of an occupant in the event of a collision of a vehicle. The guide slots 31a1 and 31b1, the guide slots 31a2 and 31b2, and the transition portions 31a3 and 31b3 change an absorption load for secondary collision energy dependently on the direction of a secondary collision of the occupant with the steering system.