Abstract:
An optical pickup is compatible with at least two types of optical recording media each using light beams having different wavelengths from one another and which are used for recording and reproducing information. The optical pickup includes a first laser light source for emitting a first light beam having a relatively long wavelength, and a second laser light source for emitting a second light beam having a relatively short wavelength. A beam splitting plate transmits the first light beam and reflects the second light beam toward a collimator. The collimator collimates the light beam incident from the beam splitting plate to transmit the collimated light beam into an objective lens. The objective lens is designed so that the second light beam is focused on the information recording surface of a second optical recording medium whose information recording surface is closer to the objective lens than the information recording surface of the first optical recording medium, to form an optical spot optimized to the second optical recording medium. The optical distance from the first laser light source to the information recording surface of a first optical recording medium whose information recording surface is relatively farther from the objective lens, is shorter than the optical distance from the second laser light source to the information recording surface of the second optical recording medium so that spherical aberration occurring when the first light beam is used is removed. An aberration correction plate is located on an optical path between the first laser light source and the beam splitting plate, and corrects an optical aberration occurring when the beam splitting plate is used.
Abstract:
An optical head assembly having compatibility with a recordable compact disk (CD-R) and a digital video disk (DVD) includes a stationary first optical unit and a second optical unit which moves to a position to change the target sector of an optical disk loaded in an optical disk driver on which the incident beam is irradiated by travelling between an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the loaded optical disk. The first optical unit directs an emitted first light beam having a wavelength of 635 nm for a DVD to the second optical unit and detects information contained in the first light beam redirected from the second optical unit, if the DVD is the loaded optical disk. Meanwhile, the second optical unit focuses the first light beam incident from the first optical unit if the loaded optical disk is the DVD and an emitted second light beam having a wavelength of 780 nm for a CD-R on an information recording surface of the loaded optical disk if the CD-R is the loaded optical disk, transmits the first light beam reflected by the loaded DVD disk to the first optical unit, and detects information from the second light beam reflected by the loaded CD-R disk.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus compatible with at least two types of optical recording media, using light beams having respective different wavelengths for recording and reading information, the optical pickup apparatus including two laser light sources to emit light beams having the different wavelengths, respectively, a holographic lens, including a holographic ring, to transmittal of the light beams emitted from the laser light sources in an inner region of the holographic ring, and diffracting a specific light beam among the light beams emitted from the laser light sources in an outer region relative to the inner region, an objective lens to focus the light beams passed through the holographic ring lens on the respective information recording surfaces of the two types of the optical recording media, optical elements to alter optical paths of the light beams reflected from the information recording surfaces of the optical recording media; and two photodetectors to individually detect optical information from the light beams incident from the optical elements. The optical pickup apparatus is used compatibly with optical recording media by using the holographic lens to eliminate spherical aberration generated when an optical recording medium is changed to another medium having a different thickness, thereby providing advantages which include ease in construction of the holographic lens and good mass-production capabilities.
Abstract:
A reproducing/recording optical pickup compatible with discs having different thicknesses includes a transparent plate having a central portion formed with a diffraction grating pattern for diffracting the light travelling from the light source to the objective lens, and a transparent portion through which the light passes, and a photodetector having first and second light receiving portions. The zero-order transmitted light and the passing light are focused using all regions of the aperture of the objective lens with respect to a thin disc. The positive first-order diffracted light diffracted by the diffraction grating pattern of the transparent plate is focused onto a thick disc by partial regions of the objective lens. Then, the reflected lights thereof are detected by the first and second light receiving portions, respectively. Because signals for reproduction and servo for each disc are detected as the detection signals of the first and second light receiving portions, stable servo and noiseless reproduction are possible, irrespective of the thickness of the disc used.
Abstract:
A dual-focus objective lens for an optical pickup which is compatible with both 0.6 mm and 1.2 mm disks is compensated in its aberration with respect to a light spot on a recording plane of the loaded disk and at least one of a light-receiving plane and a light-emitting plane of the dual focus objective lens has a first curvature unit and a second curvature unit whose curvature radii are different from each other. Incident light beams passing through the whole region of the first curvature unit and second curvature unit are focused onto the thinner disk, and parts of incident light beams passing through the region around the first curvature unit are focused onto the thicker disk. In the optical pickup having the dual focus objective lens, since the light is not divided, light efficiency is improved, thereby reproducing a signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Particularly, an optical pickup enabling recording as well as reproduction is obtained.
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 apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises an optical unit for projecting a plurality of wavelengths of light, the light including a celadon light, toward a recording medium and receiving the light reflected from the recording medium to thereby detect an information signal and an error signal, and a compatible objective lens for focusing a light projected from the optical unit to thereby form an optical spot on a recording surface of the recording medium and applying at least three light having different wavelength ranges to be compatibly used for both the high-density and the low-density recording mediums. Accordingly, the optical pickup apparatus is capable of compatibly employing a high-density recording medium, which uses a celadon light and is slimmer than a digital versatile disc (DVD), and at least one low-density recording medium.
Abstract:
A method of detecting a servo error, an apparatus therefor, a disk which maintains quantity of a servo error signal, a method of controlling a servo of an apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from a disk, a method of detecting the tracking error, and a method of detecting tilt error of the apparatus. The apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from the disk in which a recording area is divided into sectors, each sector has a header for indicating an address, each header has a first header and a second header which are recorded to deviate from the center of the track in opposite directions, and the first header and the second header have address areas in which the addresses of sectors are recorded and synchronous signal areas in which synchronous signals for detecting the address signals recorded in the address area are recorded, 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 received from the reproducing signal generator, a first synchronous signal level detector for receiving the output of the reproducing signal generator and detecting a magnitude Ivfo1 of a first synchronous signal in the first header by being synchronized with the header area signal received from the header area detector, a second synchronous signal level detector for receiving the output of the reproducing signal generator and detecting a magnitude Ivfo3 of a second synchronous signal in the second header by being synchronized with the header area signal received from the header area detector, and a balance calculator for calculating the balance of the magnitude Ivfo1 of the first synchronous signal detected by the first synchronous signal level detector and the magnitude Ivfo3 of the second synchronous signal detected by the second synchronous signal level detector. As a result, it is possible for the recording/reproducing apparatus to stably control a servo therein and maintain an optimal recording/reproducing state since the apparatus for detecting the servo error correctly detects the servo error state of the disk.
Abstract:
A compatible optical pickup device includes a single light source to emit a light having a wavelength longer than 650 nm, an objective lens having a near axis area, a ring type annular lens area, and a far axis area to focus the light to form light spots suitable for a first relatively thin optical disk and a second relatively thick optical disk to form a first light spot having an FWHM (full width at half maximum) of 0.72 μm or less for the first optical disk and a second light spot having an FWHM of 0.8 μm or more for the second optical disk, an optical path changer to change a proceeding path of incident light, and a photodetector to receive light reflected by the optical disk and having passed through the objective lens and the optical path changer and to detect an information signal and/or an error signal.
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.