摘要:
A magnetic tape has a guide track for optically obtaining a tracking signal and an independent information track for storing information. The magnetic tape is partitioned into different kinds of zones. The guide tracks are provided with grooves or pits serving as tracking marks, and the tracking marks are selectively located in the zones depending on the kind of zone. Thus, the track spacing of the guide tracks in each zone can be increased, so that a tracking control can be performed for a high density recording medium without reducing the spot size of the light.
摘要:
A magnetic tape has a guide track for optically obtaining a tracking signal and an independent information track for storing information. The magnetic tape is partitioned into different kinds of zones. The guide tracks are provided with grooves or pits serving as tracking marks, and the tracking marks are selectively located in the zones depending on the kind of zone. Thus, the track spacing of the guide tracks in each zone can be increased, so that a tracking control can be performed for a high density recording medium without reducing the spot size of the light.
摘要:
For example, because an optical position detector for positioning a head for a high-density floppy disk is constituted so that openings 111 and 112 are used in which the thickness of a returning optical path bound for photodetectors 108R and 108L from a disk 107 is larger than the thickness of an advancing optical path bound for the disk 107 from a light source 101, a light beam is not easily interrupted in the middle of an optical path even if a light beam falls due to a tilt of the disk and therefore, it is possible to stably obtain position detection signals. Moreover, by reducing the luminous energy to be returned to a light source, it is possible to obtain a signal having less noises even if the distance between object images decreases and downsize an apparatus. In the case of a conventional optical position detector for positioning a head for a high-density floppy disk, a light beam is tilted due to a tilt of a disk and interrupted in its returning path because the numerical aperture of an optical system is small and the quality of a signal used for position detection is easily deteriorated. Moreover, when decreasing the distance between object images in order to downsize an apparatus, noises of a light source increase and the quality of a signal is deteriorated.
摘要:
An optical information processing apparatus includes: an optical head for radiating a light beam onto an information storage medium and generating a reproduction signal from the light beam reflected an/or diffracted from the information storage medium, the information storage medium carrying optically readable information recorded thereon; a transportation member for causing a relative movement of the optical head with respect to the information storage medium; and a signal processing circuit for receiving the reproduction signal generated by the optical head and processing the reproduction signal. The reproduction signal obtained from the information storage medium irradiated with the light beam includes first information from a mark near a boundary between a region which is heated by the light beam to no less than a predetermined temperature and a first region which is at a temperature below the predetermined temperature, and second information from a mark near a boundary between the region which is heated to no less than the predetermined temperature and a second region which is at a temperature below the predetermined temperature. The signal processing circuit separates the first information from the second information, or vice versa, thereby obtaining from the reproduction signal the information recorded on the information storage medium.
摘要:
An optical head apparatus comprises: a light source for emitting light; a front-end converging optical system for converging the light emitted from the light source onto a multi-layer information storage medium; a back-end converging optical system for reconverging the light reflected from a layer on the multi-layer information storage medium; wavefront converting means for accepting the reconverged light, and for forming an wavefront to enable detection of a focus error signal and/or a tracking error signal; and a photodetector for receiving the light from the wavefront converting means, and for outputting a signal proportional to the amount of the received light.
摘要:
In a magnetic recording medium to detect tracking error signals optically where an optical head and a magnetic head scan different tracks, two signals having phases different by .pi./2 are generated and added or subtracted. By changing the amplitude of the two signals with a changeable gain amplifying means, a phase of a tracking error signal is changed so that the servo operation is conducted at the middle of the amplitude of the tracking error signal to keep the magnetic head on track.
摘要:
A signal processing device for an optical information reproducing apparatus is provided. The reproducing apparatus reproduces information using a light beam from an information recording medium having tracks in which the information is recorded in such a manner that optically readable marks are digitally and selectively formed with a discrete length which is a substantially integral multiple of a basic period T. the device includes: an optical pickup head device outputting a signal mainly containing information recorded at a desired position; an equalizer receiving the signal and emphasizing an amplitude of a high frequency component of the signal relative to a low frequency component of the signal in accordance with a coefficient capable of being arbitrarily set; a clock signal generator generating a clock signal representing a timing synchronized with an edge of digital information recorded as marks or spaces on the information recording medium; an index processor receiving an output signal from the equalizer to calculate an index; and a signal processing circuit outputting a control signal for controlling the coefficient in the equalizer based on the index.
摘要:
An optical disc drive having an optical pickup head emitting a light beam to an optical storage medium, detecting the light beam reflected from the optical storage medium, and outputting a signal based on the received reflected light, having a jitter measuring unit measuring jitter in signals output from the optical pickup head and having an evaluation unit determining from the measured jitter if the optical storage medium is good or defective. The jitter measuring unit measures jitter in a train of 3T or longer marks or spaces from an optical storage medium to which digital information is recorded as a train of marks or spaces of length kT based on a period T and an integer k of two or more.
摘要:
A laser image display comprising a laser light source emitting laser light, a beam deflector element for receiving laser light and deflecting its advancing direction, a beam deflecting element control section for controlling the degree of deflection performed by the beam deflector element, an optical integrator for receiving and guiding the deflected laser light to output from its outputting end face, a pseudo surface light source element for scattering the deflected laser light, and a modulation element for receiving and modulating the laser light scattered by the false surface light source element.
摘要:
The present invention provides a surface illuminator having a uniform luminance over a large area by using a laser light source, having a wide color reproduction range, and capable of suppressing a speckle noise, as well as a liquid crystal display using the same. The surface illuminator of the present invention includes the laser light source that emits a laser beam; a beam scan section that deflects and scans the laser beam; and a first plate-shaped light guide that makes the laser beam deflected and scanned by the beam scan section to be incident from an end face portion and making the incident laser beam to emit from a first major surface. Further, the liquid crystal display of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel and the surface illuminator, wherein the surface illuminator is used as a backlight illuminator that lights the liquid crystal display panel from backside in this liquid crystal display.