摘要:
A monocular holographic storage device or system to provide for compact recording and/or reading of data pages in a holographic storage medium. Also provided are methods for carrying out such data storage and/or data recovery using a monocular holographic storage device or system. Further provided are articles comprising holographic storage media for recording or for reading recorded data using such devices or systems.
摘要:
In multilayer optical discs and high-speed optical discs, the amount of reproduction light per unit time greatly decreases and the reproduction signal quality (S/N) significantly drops due to the low effective reflectivity and the short read time of the medium. These problems are solved by causing reflected signal light from the optical disc and reference light, which is separated from the same light source and introduced into a detector without being shone onto the optical disc, to interference with each other on the detector. Detector outputs having four different interference states are simultaneously obtained, the interference states being displaced at intervals of 90° in terms of the phase relationship between the reference light and the signal. Based on a operation of the four detector outputs, a reproduction signal can be obtained that is stable at all times and amplified with high quality, even when there is an optical path length variation due to disc undulations.
摘要:
In the past there has been a problem that on a detection surface the influence of interference causes a defocusing signal to degrade, narrowing the range in which spherical aberration can be stably detected. Accordingly, a diffraction grating is used to focus the inner and outer sides of luminous flux on separate optical detectors before the optical flux is focused on an optical detector and defocusing signals are independently calculated to find the difference therebetween, thereby providing a spherical aberration signal. This makes it possible to detect spherical aberration signals more stably.
摘要:
In an optical head, if a lens is reduced in size so that it can be integrated with a light source and a photodetector, other optical components as well as the lens must be reduced in size, which would result in greater difficulties in handling for assembly and adjustment purposes. The invention allows large quantities of ultra-small optical heads to be produced accurately and at low cost, the optical heads being easy to adjust and not requiring the handling of minute components for adjustment purposes. A first substrate includes lenses for focusing light on an information storage medium, a second substrate includes detectors and disposed on the surface thereof, and a layer, which is disposed between the first and second substrates, includes prisms and mirrors. The layer also includes cavities in which light sources are disposed. The individual substrates are formed in the form of wafers with the lenses, mirrors, prisms, light sources, and photodetectors disposed thereon.
摘要:
A rewritable optical disk apparatus, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus or the like is allowed to automatically and properly adjust the optical system to the optimum focal condition regardless of the readout signal detector's positional error and the residual aberration in the optical system. The spherical aberration and defocus are coarsely adjusted using the amplitude (PP amplitude) of the tracking error signal and then finely adjusted using the amplitude (RF amplitude) of the readout signal. Since the spherical aberration can properly be adjusted, it is possible to raise the reliability of the readout signal.
摘要:
To stably carry out recording and reproducing to and from a high density optical disk without using a double servo in the optical disk using a high NA objective lens. A detection of a spherical aberration and a detection of a coma aberration in a radial direction are simultaneously performed, and the coma aberration generated with the offset of an objective lens 109 is corrected in real time, thus enlarging an allowable offset amount of the objective lens. In order to simultaneously detect the spherical aberration and the coma aberration, focal shift and tracking shift signals in an inside region and outside region of reflected light flux are detected respectively, and the differential signals are set as spherical aberration and coma aberration signals.
摘要:
A near-field probe includes a metallic scatterer fabricated on a substrate in a contour of a circular cone, a polygonal pyramid, a planar ellipse, or a triangle and a film of a metal, a dielectric, or a semiconductor formed in a periphery of the scatterer with film thickness equal to height of the scatterer.
摘要:
An optical disk device having a light source for emitting light, focusing optics for radiating and focusing the light onto an optical recording medium, a photo-detection system for photoelectrically transforming reflected light from the optical recording medium, a reproduction circuit for reproducing information recorded on the optical recording medium by using an electric signal from the photo-detection system, phase control optics for changing the phase of the reflected light, a readout control circuit for controlling the quantity of the phase change of the phase control optics, and a learning control circuit for calculating the optimum value of the phase change quantity by monitoring the output signal of the reproduction circuit while changing the quantity of the phase change by the readout control circuit. Thus, information can be reproduced from a recording medium having high recording density without crosstalk.
摘要:
The optical head is arranged such that a semiconductor laser and a photodetector are formed via a buffer layer on the same substrate; and an opening portion is formed in the substrate under the semiconductor laser and the photodetector. This optical head is further arranged by that the opening portion is filled with a first transparent layer; a diffraction grating is formed on a lower surface of the first transparent layer; a second transparent layer is stacked on a lower surface of the first transparent layer; and a condenser lens is formed on a lower surface of the transparent layer. In this optical head, laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser is penetrated through the substrate, the first transparent layer, the diffraction grating, and the second transparent layer, and condensed toward a place just under the condenser lens by the condenser lens, thereby forming a light spot on an optical storage medium positioned apart from the condenser lens, whereas reflection light reflected from the optical storage medium is penetrated through the condenser lens and the second transparent layer, diffracted by the diffraction grating toward a light receiving plane of the photodetector, and further penetrated through the first transparent layer to be received by the photodetector.
摘要:
A magneto-optic disk apparatus for use with a magneto-optic disk in which a recording surface made of a magneto-optic information recording medium is formed on a transparent substrate having a birefringence. The magneto-optic disk apparatus includes an optical head for performing a recording and a reproduction by a laser beam for the recording surface, and a unit for eliminating a fluctuation component occurring in a reproduction magneto-optic signal, the fluctuation component eliminating unit being arranged in a convergent light up to an analyzer in a detection optical system.