Abstract:
A lens device which can be used as an objective lens in an optical pickup apparatus includes an objective lens provided along a light path facing a disc and having a predetermined effective diameter, and light controlling means provided along the light path for controlling the light in an intermediate region between near and far axes of an incident light beam, thus providing a simplified and inexpensive device for using discs of differing thickness in a single disc drive, by reducing the spherical aberration effect.
Abstract:
A compatible optical pickup including an optical unit and a focusing unit. The optical unit emits a short wavelength light for high-density recording media and a long wavelength light for low-density recording media, directs the short and long wavelength light to a recording medium, receives lights reflected by the recording medium, and detects an information reproduction signal and/or an error signal from the received lights. The focusing unit focuses light received from the optical unit to form a light spot on a recording surface of the recording medium, diffracts the short wavelength light into a zero order light and the long wavelength light into a second order light to be used as effective light for recording and/or reproduction. Thus, a high-density recording medium and a low-density recording medium having different thicknesses can be compatibly used.
Abstract:
An optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus with an optical pickup actuator having high thrust. The optical pickup actuator may include a lens holder which holds an objective lens and is movably supported by a supporting unit, and a magnetic driving unit which drives the lens holder in a focusing direction, a tracking direction, and/or a tilting direction. The magnetic driving unit includes a surface-triple pole magnet portion and a coil portion. The surface-triple pole magnet portion has a plurality of polarized, i.e., differently magnetized, areas formed by facing sides of two magnets among three magnets. The coil portion includes tracking coils and tilt coils disposed to interact with the polarized areas of the surface-triple pole magnet portion and a focusing coil disposed to interact with a non-polarized area of the surface-triple pole magnet portion.
Abstract:
An optical pickup includes a light source which emits light, a grating which separates a portion of the light emitted from the light source, a reflecting member which reflects another portion of the light emitted from the light source, a monitoring photodetector disposed on a traveling path of the light reflected from the reflecting member and which measures the reflected light, an optical path changer which changes an optical path of the light separated by the grating, an objective lens light which condenses the light the optical path of which is changed onto a disc, and a signal detecting photodetector which receives the light reflected from the disc.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for detecting beam power generated by a plurality of light sources, using a single device. The apparatus includes a light-receiving unit that receives the beam power generated by one of a plurality of light sources, and an amplifying unit that selects a gain, amplifies the beam power received by the light-receiving unit according to the selected gain, and outputs the beam power amplified as a detected beam power. According to the apparatus and method, received beam power (or amplification gain) is amplified by a gain determined according to the characteristics of the respective light sources. Thus, it is possible to provide the detected beam power in consideration of a sufficient dynamic range for the each light source, thereby realizing effective APC.
Abstract:
An optical recording and pickup head having a flat plate lens of a staircase type diffraction grating structure is compatible with a DVD and a CD-RW. The optical recording and pickup head includes a first optical source for emitting first light having a relatively short wavelength, a second optical source for emitting second light having a relatively long wavelength, a photo detector, an objective lens for focusing the light emitted from the first and second optical sources on the information recording surfaces of the optical discs, respectively, an optical path altering unit for transferring the light emitted from the first and second optical sources to the objective lens and transferring the first and second light reflected from the information recording surfaces of the plurality of discs to the photo detector, respectively, and a flat plate lens for substantially totally transmitting the first light proceeding from the optical path altering unit to the objective lens and diffracting the second light proceeding from the optical path altering unit to the optical axis of the objective lens.
Abstract:
A magnetic circuit, an optical pickup actuator, an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the magnetic circuit, and method of the same, wherein the magnetic circuit includes a plurality of focus coil units each of which includes a first focus coil and a second focus coil, and a magnet including a plurality of magnet portions which interact with the plurality of focus coil units and each of which is polarized in a direction opposite to adjacent magnet portions thereamong. Here, electromagnetic forces act on the first and second focus coils in each focus coil unit in a same direction in response to focus driving signals and in opposite directions in response to tilt driving signals, with the first and second focus coils in each focus coil unit have different effective coil lengths.
Abstract:
A heat source having a device emitting heat, a case protecting and supporting the device, and a thermoelectric element absorbing the heat emitted from the device and dissipating the heat to an outside.
Abstract:
In order to improve the frequency characteristic of a laser power monitor device and the precision of laser power control when low-speed recording is performed, there is provided a laser power monitor device for an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus, the laser power monitor device including a photo diode unit to receive part of a light emitted from a laser diode and output a current proportional to optical power, and a monitor circuit to receive the current output from the photo diode unit, convert the received current into a voltage, and outputs the voltage to an automatic laser power control circuit, and the photo diode unit includes a plurality of photo diodes connected to the monitor circuit to supply current to the monitor circuit. The laser power monitor device further includes a switch unit, wherein the switch unit is located between the photo diode unit and the monitor circuit to receive a signal on a current recording speed and switch so that the number of photo diodes supplying current to the monitor circuit is reduced as the recording speed is increased.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus having compatibility with a recodable compact disk (CD-R) and a digital video disk (DVD), which uses a wavelength of one of a first light beam and a second light beam according to the recording medium to be used. In the optical pickup apparatus, laser light sources emit a first light beam having a relatively shorter wavelength for the. DVD and a second light beam having a longer wavelength for the CD-R, respectively. An objective lens has a predetermined focal length in accordance with the position of an information recording surface in the DVD. An optical path control unit controls the path of light beams so that the light beam emitted from one of the laser light sources is directed to the objective lens and the light output from the objective lens is directed to the optical detection unit. A phase shift unit which is located between the optical path control unit and the objective lens, shifts the phase of the second light proceeding from the optical path control unit to the objective lens, to thereby reduce the size of a beam spot which is formed on a position of the information recording surface in the CD-R.