Abstract:
This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of recording data can be prevented.
Abstract:
An information layer 0 comprises a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area, an information layer 1 comprises a system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area, an end position of the data area of layer 1 is positioned outer than a start position of the data area of layer 0, the data lead-in area comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone in the data lead-out area, the data lead-out area comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone and a management zone in the data lead-in area, the middle area of layer 0 comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone in the middle area of layer 1, and the middle area of layer 1 comprises a blank zone wider than a test zone in the middle area of layer 0.
Abstract:
This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of recording data can be prevented.
Abstract:
This invention achieves high-density recording while preventing recording units from overlapping. Recording is done to form a gap between predetermined recording units. Since this gap is formed, even when a rotation driving mechanism of a medium suffers rotation nonuniformity, two neighboring recording units never overlap each other, and destruction of recording data can be prevented.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the invention, an information recording medium has a first recording layer, a second recording layer which is provided with respect to the first recording layer through a first space layer with a first thickness, a third recording layer which is provided with respect to the second recording layer through a second space layer whose thickness is different from the first space layer and is set to a predetermined magnitude with respect to the thickness of the first space layer, a first substrate which supports the first recording layer, and a second substrate which supports the third recording layer, and it is possible to manufacture with high productivity an information recording medium having three or more recording layers hard to cause interlayer crosstalk.
Abstract:
An information layer 0 comprises a system lead-in area, data lead-in area, data area, and middle area, an information layer 1 comprises a system lead-out area, data lead-out area, data area, and middle area, an end position of the data area of layer 1 is positioned outer than a start position of the data area of layer 0, the data lead-in area comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone in the data lead-out area, the data lead-out area comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone and a management zone in the data lead-in area, the middle area of layer 0 comprises a guard track zone wider than a test zone in the middle area of layer 1, and the middle area of layer 1 comprises a blank zone wider than a test zone in the middle area of layer 0.
Abstract:
To improve the quality of a tracking error signal when reproducing information recorded in an optical disc having tracks with two or more different pitches, using a diffraction element which is given a diffraction pattern configured to provide diffracted rays on the light-receiving surface of a photodetector which receives a reflected laser beam reflected on the recording layer of an optical disc and outputs a corresponding signal, to use diffracted rays generated according to pitches of optical tracks of an optical disc having different track pitches by switching to a predetermined combination in each of a phase different detection method (DPD) and a push pull method (PP).
Abstract:
An optical head unit according to an embodiment of the invention includes a diffraction element which has a diffraction pattern capable of outputting a non-diffraction component, ±1st diffraction components, and an electric signal corresponding to the non-diffraction component, to the light-receiving surface of a photodetector which receives a reflected laser beam reflected on a recording layer of an optical disc and outputs a corresponding signal, as an signal at least for reproducing information recorded on the optical disc, and capable of outputting electric signals corresponding to the ±1st diffraction components for generating a focus error signal by a spot size method. The ratio of a component output as a non-diffraction component is increased to higher than the ratio of components output as ±1st diffraction components, and the signal to noise ratio of a reproduces signal is improved.
Abstract:
An optical disk apparatus comprising a light source for emitting a light beam, an optical system for focusing the light beam to form a beam spot on the optical disk, a tracking unit for detecting the light reflected from the optical disk to generate a tracking error signal from the light by a differential phase detection method, and move the beam spot in accordance with the tracking error signal, and an information-readout section for reading out information from the optical disk. To achieve readout compatibility between a high-definition DVD and a DVD-ROM, a predetermined delay is given relatively to first and second signals obtained from two pairs of regions arranged in two crossing diagonals of a quadrant photodetector, thereby shifting the beam spot from the centerline of the pit stream in the radial direction of a DVD-ROM, in order to read out information from the DVD-ROM.
Abstract:
An optical disk apparatus is capable of reproducing information from an optical disk 10. The optical disk apparatus mainly includes an illuminating unit which is formed from a semiconductor laser 14, a collimator lens 15, a polarization light beam splitter (PBS) 16 and a -quarter-wave plate 17, as well as an objective lens 18, that focuses a light beam onto the optical disk 10; a two-segment split photo detector 21 which detects the light beam reflected by the optical disk 10; and a signal processing circuit 27 which processes a signal obtained by the two-segment split photo detector 21 to output a signal for reproduction. Here, the optical disk 10 has a recording region on which recording information can be stored along a first line and a header field on which reproducible information is stored along a second line, the second line being shifted from the first line a predetermined distance, the illuminating unit focusing the light beam along the first line, and the two-segment split photo detector 21 having two detecting areas 22a and 22b on opposite sides of a line parallel to the reflected image of the first line position. The signal processing circuit 27 is capable of processing a difference and a sum signal by using values detected in the detecting areas 22a and 22b, and it outputs one of those to serve as a playback signal reflecting a characteristic of the optical disk 10.