摘要:
A recording/reproducing optical head capable of causing a light spot on a photodetector for detecting a focusing error signal to stand still without being affected by variations in wavelength of light used, capable of adjusting a tracking error signal independently of the focusing error signal, and capable of utilizing light having an order of diffraction of -1 for the purpose of detecting a signal, in which a cylindrical lens for generating astigmatism and a diffraction grating made up of two regions different in the direction of diffraction or the angle of diffraction from each other are interposed between a beam splitter and a photodetector, a light beam diffracted from the diffraction grating and including the diffracted light of the zero-th order (that is, light which has passed through the diffraction grating without being deflected) is received by the photodetector, the diffracted light of the zero-th order is used for detecting a focusing error signal according to the astigmatism method, and diffracted light having an order of diffraction of +1 and diffracted light having an order of diffraction of -1 are used for detecting a tracking error signal.
摘要:
For use with a multi-layer optical disc, an optical pickup can eliminate a problem of causing a focus error signal and a tracking error signal to fluctuate due to interference of a signal light beam with a return light beam from another recording surface of a multi-layer optical disc during reproduction with an optical pickup that produces a tracking error signal and a focus error signal from a difference signal based on polarized reflected light.
摘要:
When recording/reproducing an optical disc having a recording layer of multi-layer structure, an unwanted optical beam reflected from a recording layer other than a target layer for recording/reproduction is incident on a photodetector to cause an unwanted disturbance component to leak to a detection signal, giving rise to a degradation in the quality of a tracking control signal. In an optical pickup apparatus, for suppression of the degradation, an optical element is mounted having a diffraction area for diffracting part of the optical beam and light receiving planes for sub-optical beams are provided each of which has a light shielding zone or dead zone of a predetermined width on its central sectioning line.
摘要:
An optical pickup includes a diffraction grating partitioned into three areas, in which the phase of periodic grating groove structure in an area is successively shifted from that in the adjacent area by 90°. In the generation of a differential push-pull signal, an amplification factor K for sub push-pull signals is varied depending on the type of the optical disk. By such composition of the optical pickup, amplitude deterioration of the tracking error signal accompanying displacement of the object lens is reduced.
摘要:
An optical pickup and an optical information recording and reproducing device in which spherical aberration correction control after a disc is loaded can be efficiently made in a short time. Before an information recording medium is loaded into a drive, an optical axis direction position of a concave lens is preset to a state so as to optimize a converging spot on a recording surface of a single-layered medium of as a first recording medium or a predetermined layer (first layer having a substrate thickness of 0.1 mm) of a medium having two or more layers to which the recording/reproduction is executed by a laser light source. After the information recording medium is loaded, if it is determined to be a second (third) recording medium to which the recording/reproduction is executed by a laser light source, setting of the optical axis direction position of the concave lens is changed.
摘要:
An optical pickup includes a diffraction grating partitioned into three areas, in which the phase of periodic grating groove structure in an area is successively shifted from that in the adjacent area by 90°. In the generation of a differential push-pull signal, an amplification factor K for sub push-pull signals is varied depending on the type of the optical disk. By such composition of the optical pickup, amplitude deterioration of the tracking error signal accompanying displacement of the object lens is reduced.
摘要:
The present invention provides a photodetector capable of generating highly accurate tracking and focusing error signals free of variations in light quantity caused by interference, in an optical pickup with a two-wavelength multilaser. The photodetector comprises first three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a first wavelength and second three light receiving areas arranged linearly to receive three light beams respectively resulting from splitting of a light beam emitted from a laser light source of a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength. The distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the first three light receiving areas is longer than the distance between both-end light receiving areas out of the second three light receiving areas.
摘要:
An optical pickup device is provided which reduces variations in amplitude of a tracking error signal in a seek operation due to an installation error of the optical pickup device onto an optical disk apparatus, thereby generating the tracking error signal with high accuracy without any influence from stray lights, and which is high in productivity and low cost. Two sub-light beams are focused on at least one of forward and backward sides in a rotational direction of the disk with respect to a main light beam focused on the disk. When n is an integer number, and t is a distance between guide grooves of the disk, the two sub-light beams focused are spaced apart from each other by a distance of t×(n+0.5) in the radial direction of the optical disk. As splitting means for splitting the light beams into a plurality of beams, a diffraction grating is used which has grid grooves spaced apart at equal intervals, but having different angles at the upper and lower parts of an exiting surface of the light beam.
摘要:
An optical head having a semiconductor laser and a generation of a plurality of reflected light beams from an optical disk which have polarities of intensity distribution variations which are substantially inverted to each other when a periodic structure of the optical disk crosses at least one focused spot on the disk. An optical detection system splits the plurality of reflected light beams and detects the split reflected light beams. An electrical circuit provides a focus error signal of the at least one focused spot and a tracking error signal from the plurality of reflected light beams. The electrical circuit adds focus error signals provides a difference signal between the focus error signals, amplifies tracking error signals with a gain, and obtains a difference between amplified tracking error.
摘要:
Concerning a tilt detecting optical pickup in an optical disk playback device, a highly precise tilt error signal can be obtained by a simple structure. As a structure for achieving this, there are provided a diffraction grating, on which a grating groove pattern has been engraved, capable of adding coma aberration components to + and - primary diffracted light on an optical path between a laser diode, which becomes a playback light source, and an optical disk, and a light-receiving element capable of receiving the diffracted light. The output from a signal processing circuit capable of calculating a difference between each light receiving strength becomes a tilt error signal. By deforming the aforesaid grating groove pattern, the layout of the coma aberration components can be changed. Also, a tilt error signal can be obtained from a difference in bit error numbers in playback signals from diffracted light having coma aberration. Addition of coma aberration components to the diffracted light makes it possible to easily improve the sensitivity of a tilt error signal to the tilt angle.