摘要:
An aberration correction apparatus includes an optical pickup having a liquid crystal panel for correcting an aberration of a light beam emitted from a light source and irradiated on a recording medium and a control unit which applies, to the liquid crystal panel, a bias voltage in order to correct the aberration. The bias voltage is a voltage at which a diffraction generated in the light beam passing through an electrode gap portion between electrode portions of the liquid crystal panel is minimum. For instance, the bias voltage is the voltage at which a phase difference between the light beam passing through the electrode portions of the liquid crystal panel and the light beam passing through the electrode gap portion is an integral multiple of a wavelength of the light beam. It is thereby possible to prevent unnecessary diffracted light from being generated by the liquid crystal panel for correcting the aberrations.
摘要:
A recording medium has a recording layer capable of be performed in recording or reproducing of information with light irradiation and carried with a substrate. The recording medium includes a guide layer having guide tracks each followed by a light beam spot focused from an objective lens through the recording layer, the guide tracks disposed at a first pitch. The recording medium includes a guide track transfer region provided on the guide layer and having at least one line of a track arranged in parallel between the guide tracks adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the guide track so as to be in a direction perpendicular to the guide track within a range shorter than that of the guide track.
摘要:
A holographic record carrier is capable of recording or reproducing information by irradiating light. The holographic record carrier is comprised of a holographic recording layer for storing an optical interference pattern produced by a signal light component of a coherent reference light and a signal light as a diffraction grating therein; a reflective layer stacked on the holographic recording layer in the opposite side of the light incidence side; and a plurality of non-reflective regions arranged on the reflective layer in the same interval as the record-interval of the diffraction grating.
摘要:
An optical pickup projects laser beams having the first to the third wavelengths, in response to the type of a recording medium which is an object to which recording or reproduction is to be performed, and reflecting light from the recording medium is received by a light-detecting element. In order to reduce the sizes of the optical pickup, light of the second and the third wavelengths is generated by a single dual-wavelength light source, and reflecting light of all the wavelengths is to be received by the single light-detecting element. A hologram element giving different optical effects to light of each wavelength is arranged between the light irradiating means and the light-detecting element. Thus, appropriate information recording and reproduction can be performed by using light of each wavelength.
摘要:
A hologram recording medium is for recording or reproducing information with light irradiated thereto. The medium has a recording layer made of a photo-sensitive material, a reflective layer disposed on the opposite side of the recording layer from a light irradiated side, tracks formed on the reflective layer such that the tracks are spaced apart by a first pitch from each other to extend without intersection, and positioning marks formed on the reflective layer such that the positioning marks are spaced apart by a second pitch from each other in a direction in which the tracks extend. The second pitch is a function of the first pitch.
摘要:
An aberration correction element is intended to correct an aberration. The aberration correction element is placed in a middle of an optical path between a light source and an optical element for focusing a light on the information recording medium. The aberration correction element is provided with: a first electrode; a liquid crystal element; second electrodes which are arranged in a form of multiple layers in a direction of the optical axis; and outgoing lines for individually applying a voltage to the second electrodes. At least one of second electrodes is placed between the outgoing line for applying the voltage to another second electrode other than one second electrode which is placed on the closest side to the liquid crystal element and the liquid crystal element which faces the outgoing line in the direction of the optical axis;
摘要:
A display apparatus, which makes one pixel displayable in four colors, that is, three primary colors and a white color, and inputs and displays chrominance signals corresponding to a mixing ratio of the four colors, includes a color correction instrument which performs first color correction of increasing the saturation of chrominance signals, and a second color correction of decreasing at least the saturation of the chrominance signals, when a predetermined color component exists in the chrominance signals corresponding to a pixel, selection instrument which switches temporally and selects either of first chrominance signals obtained by the first color correction, and second chrominance signals obtained by the second color correction, and a display instrument which displays the chrominance signals, which are selected, in the pixel.
摘要:
An aberration correcting element includes a first aberration correction element movable along the optical axis of the light beam for correcting the aberration of the light beam; a driver for positioning the first aberration correction element along the optical axis in response to a drive control signal; a second aberration correction element having a plurality of phase adjustment portions each generating an amount of phase change in the light beam, the amount corresponding to an adjustment signal; a phase adjuster for supplying the adjustment signal to the respective adjustment portions in response to a phase control signal; a light receiver for receiving the light beam reflected from the recording medium to generate a light-receiving signal; and a controller for generating the drive control signal and the phase control signal based on the light-receiving signal.
摘要:
An aberration correction apparatus includes an optical pickup having a liquid crystal panel which gives a phase difference to a light beam emitted from a light source unit and irradiated onto a recording medium and corrects an aberration occurring to the light beam by a tilt of the recording medium, and a control unit which applies, to the liquid crystal panel, a correction voltage correspondent to an amount of the aberration in reference to a bias voltage. The bias voltage is set for each of the recording mediums so that the correction voltage applied for correcting the aberration of the same amount caused by the disc tilt becomes equal for different kinds of recording mediums. Namely, even when the plural kinds of recording mediums are used, if the disc tilt angles are same, the aberration can be corrected by applying the same correction voltage.
摘要:
An aberration correcting optical unit includes an optical element for causing a phase change to light passing therethrough by the application of voltage and electrode layers for applying voltages to the optical element. The optical element is sandwiched between the electrode layers. At least one of the electrode layers includes a plurality of electrodes which are electrically isolated from one another. The plurality of electrodes are disposed such that an electric field generated in a portion of the optical element corresponding to a portion between the plurality of electrodes is larger than a predetermined intensity when a predetermined voltage is applied to the optical element.