摘要:
A hologram recording carrier that information is recorded into or reproduced from by irradiating light, comprises a hologram recording layer to store an optical interference pattern by coherent reference light and signal light as a hologram therein; and a servo layer laid on top of the hologram recording layer in a film thickness direction, multiple marks being recorded beforehand on the servo layer. The multiple marks form lines as multiple mark rows extending in a direction parallel to a relative movement direction of a light spot of a hologram recording beam irradiated on the hologram recording carrier.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for generating a coherent beam, a spatial light modulator having a central region arranged on an optical axis of the coherent beam and an annular region arranged in a manner surrounding the central region, to spatially separate a transmission component of the coherent beam through the central region and a transmission component through the annular region thereby producing a reference beam and a signal beam and propagating those coaxially in a same direction, an objective lens optical system arranged on the optical axis and for illuminating the signal beam and the reference beam coaxially toward the hologram record layer and causing the reference beam and the signal beam to focus on focal points different from each other, image detecting means arranged on the optical axis and for receiving a beam returning from the hologram record layer through the objective lens optical system when the reference beam is illuminated to the hologram record layer; and a polarization-plane rotating device having a central polarizing region arranged on the optical axis and an annular polarizing region arranged in a manner surrounding the central polarizing region and for making transmission components through the central and annular polarizing regions different in rotation angle on the polarization plane from each other.
摘要:
A multilayer optical recording medium includes a plurality of recording layers that are laminated and have recording layer forming units into which information is recorded. Reflective film forming units are formed on parts of the respective recording layers and have a reflectance ratio sufficient to make a servo loop of a focus servo into a servo close condition. Reflective film forming units of the respective recording layers are arranged at respectively different positions.
摘要:
A hologram apparatus capable of recording and reproduction of a recording medium with stability. The hologram apparatus includes: a suspension unit for holding a recording medium in a freely mountable fashion, the recording medium storing an optical interference pattern inside as a diffraction grating; a reference light optical system for emitting reference light toward the recording medium; and a signal light optical system for emitting signal light toward the recording medium, being arranged on a side opposite from the reference light optical system coaxially across the recording medium, the diffraction grating being formed by opposite irradiation of the recording medium with the signal light and the reference light. The hologram apparatus has: an objective lens for condensing the reference light with a first numerical aperture; and a spatial light modulation device for generating the signal light from the reference light past the recording medium and making it pass through the recording medium with a second numerical aperture different from the first numerical aperture, the signal light being modulated according to recorded information.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical pickup device requiring no position adjustment of a diffraction grating at the time of assembling the optical pickup device, and capable of suppressing fluctuations in a differential push-pull signal amplitude and cancelling a push-pull offset.An optical pickup device 200 of an embodiment of the present invention has a diffraction grating 230 of a special shape including predetermined grooves and two kinds of lattice grooves arranged at a pitch determined on the basis of a pitch of grooves formed in the surface of an optical disk 50, numerical aperture, wavelength of a light beam, and effective diameter of the light beam applied on the optical disk 50. To suppress push-pull signals generated in the ± first-order diffraction rays, reflection rays from the optical disk 50 of a zeroth-order diffraction ray and ± first-order diffraction rays are detected, and signals corresponding to light reception results are output to a reproduction unit 150, a control unit 130, and an actuator servo circuit 140.
摘要:
An optical pickup device is constituted to enable stable recording or reproduction on/from a recording medium. The optical pickup device has an irradiation optical system for condensing a light beam using an objective lens, and comprises: a reflection portion disposed opposite the irradiation optical system, on a common optical axis therewith, and at a remove therefrom, for reflecting and returning the light beam toward the irradiation optical system; a phase plate disposed on the optical axis, for generating light on the optical axis, and light having a modified polarization state on all or a part of the periphery of the light on the optical axis, separately from the light beam; a detection optical system disposed on the optical axis, for extracting the light having a modified polarization state from return light of the light beam and guiding the extracted light to a photodetector; and a reflection portion driving portion for positioning the reflection portion on the basis of a photoelectric conversion output from the photodetector.
摘要:
The present invention is to provide an improved aberration correction device formed by inserting an electro-optic panel such as a liquid crystal panel in an image-formation optical system to correct aberrations in the image-formation optical system, characterized in that such a correction device is capable of correcting three or more kinds of aberrations using only one electro-optic panel. Divided areas concerning coma aberration correction and divided areas concerning astigmatism correction are formed in one of the transparent electrodes of the electro-optic panel, while the rest of divided areas concerning coma aberration correction and divided areas concerning spherical aberration correction are formed in the other of the transparent electrodes. In this way, it is possible to form divided areas divided into electrode patterns suitable for correcting various aberrations, simplify as much as possible the electrode structure of the transparent electrodes consisting of the divided areas, thereby simplifying a control of voltages to be applied to the divided areas.
摘要:
A focus error detecting device for an optical pickup having an aberration correcting lens group includes a diffraction optical element having an outer diameter which is smaller than a diameter of the light beam after aberration correction, and selectively diffracting light passing through an annular portion with an optical axis as a center in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the light beam; and a photodetector which detects the light diffracted by the diffraction optical element. The annular portion includes a portion in which residual ray aberration after aberration correction by the lens group is the smallest.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus having an irradiation optical system for condensing a light beam on a track of a recording plane and a photodetection optical system for guiding return light to a photodetector to detect a focal error includes a holographic lens provided in the optical path of the return light for outputting 0-th and ±1st order diffracted lights based on the return light; an optical element provided in front of or behind the holographic lens for providing astigmatism; photodetectors for receiving the 0-th and ±1st order diffracted lights; and servo-signal generating operation circuits connected to the photodetectors for generating a first and second focus error signals having a first and second capture ranges based on the output signal of the photodetector.
摘要:
A holographic recording apparatus which can stably record data to be recorded onto a recording medium. The holographic recording apparatus of the present invention includes: a light source for generating a coherent reference light beam; a signal light generation unit including a spatial light modulator for spatially modulating the reference light beam in accordance with information data to generate a signal light beam; an interference unit for directing the signal light beam and the reference light beam toward a recording medium through an objective lens to form a region of a diffraction grating formed by an optical interference pattern within the recording medium; a lens positioning unit for positioning the objective lens with respect to a recording surface of the recording medium; and a light-receiving unit for detecting a returned beam that is returned from the recording medium through the objective lens. The signal light generation unit includes correction unit for detecting an amount of an optical positional offset between a recording data setting area in the spatial light modulator being supplied with said information data and an aperture area of the objective lens, and for adjusting a position of the recording data setting area in accordance with the amount of a optical positional offset.