Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus, including a light source to emit light, an objective lens to form a light spot on an optical recording medium by focusing the light emitted from the light source, an optical division unit, disposed between the light source and the objective lens, to divide the light emitted from the light source into a main beam and two subbeams to form one main spot and two subspots on the optical recording medium, the optical division unit having a first area and a second area surrounding the first area, a detector to detect the amount of light of the main beam and the amount of light of the respective subbeams reflected from the optical recording medium, a beam splitter disposed between the light source and the objective lens to allow the light reflected from the optical recording medium to be directed to the detector, signal generating circuits to generate a tracking error signal (TES), a focusing error signal (FES), and a spherical aberration signal (SAS), respectively, in response to the output of the detector, and a spherical aberration compensation unit, disposed between the objective lens and the beam splitter, to compensate for spherical aberration using the SAS generated by the signal generating circuits.
Abstract:
A compact high-density optical disc capable of securing recording/reproducing characteristics and high-density recording capacity. The high-density optical disc has a whole diameter of 80 mm or less to 28 mm, a whole thickness in a range of 0.3–0.7 mm, and a position where data starts being recorded in a range of 27–45 mm of the diameter. Thus, an existing disc drive can be used, the size of the high-density optical disc can be reduced, and high-density recording capacity can be secured.
Abstract:
An apparatus to generate a seek direction detecting signal for an optical pickup to determine a position of a center of an optical spot focused on an optical disk relative to a center of a track, which focuses a main beam on a first optical detector and a sub-beam having a predetermined aberration in a radial direction on a second optical detector using a light dividing unit. The second optical detector has an inner and an outer pair of light receiving portions arranged along the radial direction, the inner pair being between the outer pair. A signal processing portion includes a first signal processing portion to detect a track error signal from signals output from the first optical detector, and a second signal processing portion to generate the seek direction detecting signal from signals detected by the second optical detector and the track error signal.
Abstract:
A multilayer recording medium that prevents deterioration of a signal characteristic due to a mirror effect that may occur between recording layers and a method of manufacturing the same, the multilayer recording medium having at least two recording layers, wherein a thickness of at least one spacer layer between adjacent recording layers is different from a thickness of the other spacer layers such that a beam focusing on a recording layer is prevented from focusing on another recording layer corresponding to a mirror layer due to reflection. In the multilayer recording medium, a mirror effect is greatly reduced. In addition, the thickness of only a spacer layer exerting the most significant influence on the mirror effect is changed to prevent the deterioration of signal quality due to the mirror effect, and therefore, the structure of a multilayer recording medium is simplified.
Abstract:
First and second laser beam sources generate first and second laser beams of different wavelengths, respectively. A first collimating lens diverges the first laser beam at a predetermined angle so as to permit a fracture surface aberration of the first laser beam to fall below a predetermined value when the first laser beam generated from the first laser beam source is collected on the signal layer of the optical disk. A light receiving lens collects the laser beam reflected from the signal layer of the optical disk on a photo diode in the form of an optical spot of a predetermined size. A holographic lens has a pattern by which the first laser beam is converted into parallel rays so that the size of a spot of the first laser beam becomes identical with the size of a spot of the second laser beam as projected on the detecting section. The pattern of the holographic lens has a concentric annular concave-convex portion in which a plurality of annular prominences and depressions are arranged, and the depression and the prominence have a width which is gradually decreased from a center toward a most outer circumference of the concentric annular concave-convex portion. Further, an inner surface of each prominence has a step-like shape formed with at least one step. Preferably, the number of the step ranges from three to five. Accordingly, diameters of the optical spots of the two laser beams of different wavelengths are almost identical when the laser beams are transmitted through the holographic lens so that the optical spots are formed on the photo diode. As a result, with one objective lens and photo diode, information of two types of optical disks for laser beams of different wave lengths can be reproduced.
Abstract:
An apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from the disk in which a recording area is divided into sectors, includes a reproducing signal generator for generating a reproducing signal including sum signals V1 and V2 of radial pairs, a sum signal RF_sum, and a push-pull signal RF_pp from an optical signal reflected from the disk, a header area detector for generating a header area signal including a header area from the reproducing signal, a first synchronous signal level detector for detecting a magnitude Ivfo1 of a first synchronous signal in the first header by being synchronized with the header area signal, a second synchronous signal level detector for detecting a magnitude Ivfo3 of a second synchronous signal in the second header by being synchronized with the header area signal, and a balance calculator for calculating the balance of the magnitude Ivfo1 and the magnitude Ivfo3.
Abstract:
An optical pickup is provided for a recording medium, including: a light source generating and emitting a light beam; a light beam division and detection unit dividing a particular light beam portion of the light beam after being reflected/diffracted from the recording medium into sub-divided light beams portions, and detecting the sub-divided light beam portions; and a spherical aberration detection circuit processing the sub-divided light beam portions to detect spherical aberration caused by thickness variation of the recording medium.
Abstract:
An apparatus generating a seek direction detecting signal includes a light dividing unit dividing an incident light beam into at least two beams having a main beam and a sub-beam so that at least two beam spots including a main beam spot and at least one sub-beam spot having an optical aberration, can be focused in the track direction of an optical disk, the light dividing unit providing that the direction of the optical aberration of the sub-beam spot can be the tangential direction of the optical disk, an optical detector unit, a first signal processing portion processing a track error signal from signals output from the optical detector, a second signal processing portion processing a track cross signal from the signals output from the optical detector, and a generator generating the seek direction detecting signal from the phase difference between the track cross signal and the track error signal.
Abstract:
An optical disc includes a substrate having micro-embossments, in which flat portions referred to as lands, and track guides, referred to as hills, and which protrude from the surfaces of the flat portions are formed. A reflective layer is formed on the substrate, a dielectric layer is formed on the reflective layer, a recording layer is formed on the dielectric layer, and a protective layer is formed on the recording layer. Thus, the lands and hills on the substrate of the optical disc enable disc fabrication to more easily facilitate manufacturing of the optical disc. Accordingly, tracks of the disc can be narrowed, to thereby enhance a recording density of the optical disc.
Abstract:
An error signal detection method includes detecting light incident through an objective lens after having been reflected and diffracted from a recording medium, as eight light portions in a matrix including four inner light portions and four outer light portions, wherein the rows and columns of the matrix are parallel to the tangential and radial direction of the recording medium, respectively; calculating a first sum signal by summing a detection signal from at least one outer light portion located in a first diagonal direction, and a detection signal from an inner light portion located in a second diagonal direction; calculating second sum signal by summing a detection signal from an inner light portion located in the first diagonal direction, and a detection signal from an outer light portion located in the second diagonal direction; and comparing phases of the first and second sum signals to detect a tilt error signal.