摘要:
An optical recording medium having at least a recording film and a protection film disposed on a substrate is disclosed. The optical recording medium includes a plurality of recording tracks being disposed, along a predetermined direction, on a signal recording surface to which a laser beam is incident, the recording tracks having tapered protruding portions, wherein the protruding portions are formed of an optical near field generation film.
摘要:
There is provided a magnetic head and an information storage apparatus capable of applying light to a position close to a position to which a magnetic field is applied, without reducing the intensity of the magnetic field. The magnetic head includes a magnetic pole which emits a magnetic flux from an end thereof; an optical pole having an end aligned with the end of the magnetic pole and has a refractive index different from that of the magnetic pole; a light applying section which applies light to a side of the end of the optical pole from a position apart from the optical pole, and a filling section which fills the space between the light applying section and the end of the optical pole and has a refractive index different from any of those of the magnetic pole and optical pole.
摘要:
An optical head has a first propagation section made of a first low extinction material and installed along an optical axis, a pair of second propagation sections which, being made of a second low extinction material, sandwich the first propagation section, a pair of first confining sections which, being made of a material with propagation capability lower than that of the second propagation sections, further sandwich the first propagation section and second propagation sections from outside the second propagation sections, and a pair of third propagation sections which, being made of a material with light propagation capability higher than that of the first confining sections, further sandwich the first confining sections from outside. Also, an optical head design apparatus calculates a complex propagation constant along an optical axis by solving an equation which is based on F matrices, and thereby design an optical head in a far-sighted manner.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an information reading and recording device for reading and recording information of an optical signal. The optical system in this information reading and recording device is simplified by using a diffraction optical system. In an information reading and recording device, in which an optical disk is used, including a light source of a semiconductor laser and an image formation lens for condensing beams of light sent from the semiconductor laser so as to form an image on an optical disk medium, a diffraction optical element, the diffraction efficiency of which depends upon a direction of polarization of light, is arranged between the semiconductor lens and the image formation lens, and diffraction light of the diffraction optical element is introduced into a servo detecting optical system. In the case of recording conducted on the disk medium by a laser beam, a transmission factor of the diffraction optical element is made higher than the diffraction efficiency in the case of reading and a transmission factor of the diffraction optical element is made lower than the diffraction efficiency in the case of recording.
摘要:
An optical pickup includes a first and second light-emitting elements, a light separating element, and an objective lens. A collimating lens is disposed in the first optical path connecting the first light-emitting element and the light separating element, and an optical element which produces a rotationally symmetrical wavefront aberration is disposed in the second optical path connecting the second light-emitting element and the light separating element. Light is emitted from the first light-emitting element when a thinner disk is used. Light passes through the light separating element and the objective lens to the disk. Light is emitted from the second light-emitting element when a thicker disk is used. Light passes through the light separating element and the objective lens to the disk. In the latter case, the optical element produces aberration to compensate aberration caused by the objective lens so that a small clean spot can be formed.
摘要:
A high-resolution light-beam scanning apparatus utilizing only mass-producible holograms instead of utilizing auxiliary optical systems such as optical lenses or a mirror having curvature, and capable of compensating for disadvantages including scanning beam thickening and variation, failure of a rotatable hologram to rotate at a constant velocity, displacement of a scanning beam position in the scanning direction and the cross scanning direction due to a mode hop of a wavelength of a semiconductor laser, and deviation of a base of rotatable hologram from a parallel state. These disadvantages are detrimental to efforts for increasing the resolution of a hologram scanner and lowering the cost thereof. The light beam scanning apparatus includes at least two holograms with one being fixed and the other rotatable, where a rate of variation of a direction cosine of an object wave recorded on the fixed plate and taken in a scanning direction of the light on the scanning surface is configured to be different from a rate of variation of a direction cosine of the object wave recorded on the fixed plate and taken in a cross scanning direction of the light on the scanning surface, and focal distances of a light incident on said rotatable hologram are configured to be different in the scanning direction and in the cross scanning direction.
摘要:
A high-resolution light-beam scanning apparatus utilizing only mass-producible holograms instead of utilizing auxiliary optical systems such as an optical lens or a mirror having curvature, and capable of compensating for disadvantages including scanning beam thickening and variation, failure of a rotatable hologram to rotate at a constant velocity, displacement of a scanning beam position in the scanning direction and the cross scanning direction due to a mode hop of a wavelength of a semiconductor laser, and deviation of a base of a rotatable hologram from a parallel state, which disadvantages are detrimental to efforts for increasing the resolution of a hologram scanner and lowering the cost thereof, the light-beam scanning apparatus being characterized in that provided in the rotatable hologram (1) and the fixed plate (2) arediffraction gratings for minimizing:either a sum total of values obtained by weighting:a square of an optical path length difference between a) an optical path of a light flux measured along a principal axis MA of a light beam incident on and diffracted by a diffraction grating (1a) of a rotatable hologram (1), and incident on and diffracted by a diffraction grating (2a) of a fixed plate (2) so as to conduct a scanning and converging on a scanning point k on an image formation surface (4), and b) an optical path of a light flux measured along a marginal ray M1 distanced from the principal axis MA; or an absolute value of the optical path difference thereof,the weighting being conducted at every scanning position covering an entire range of the image formation surface (4),or a sum total of values obtained by weighting:a square of a sum obtained by adding: an amount of displacement of a light beam convergent on a scanning point k on the image formation surface (4), which displacement is measured along the marginal ray M1 distanced from the principal axis MA of an incident reconstructing light flux with respect to the principal axis MA of a phase of the diffraction grating (1a) of the rotatable hologram (1); to an amount of displacement of the same light, which displacement is measured with respect to the principal axis MA of a phase recorded on the diffraction grating (2a) when the light flux is incident on the fixed plate (2); or by weighting an absolute value of the sum,the weighting being conducted at every scanning position covering an entire range of an image formation surface.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a fixed hologram plate of a light-beam scanning apparatus for diffracting a light incident from a light source portion by a rotatable hologram, scanning by the diffracted light through the rotation of the rotatable hologram, diffracting the resulting light by the fixed hologram plate, and for conducting a light-beam scanning on a scanning surface. The method includes the steps of preparing an interference fringe distribution of the fixed hologram plate by two waves: a first wave having a spherical aberration, a transverse aberration of the first wave is in the Y direction, the transverse wave including an astigmatism and a coma; and a second wave having a spherical aberration and astigmatism, and having a wavelength different from a wavelength of a reconstructing wave that is selected to minimize distortion, wherein a transverse aberration of the second wave is in the X direction.
摘要:
A high-resolution light-beam scanning apparatus utilizing only mass-producible holograms instead of utilizing auxiliary optical systems such as optical lenses or a mirror having curvature, and capable of compensating for disadvantages including scanning beam thickening and variation, failure of a rotatable hologram to rotate at a constant velocity, displacement of a scanning beam position in the scanning direction and the cross scanning direction due to a mode hop of a wavelength of a semiconductor laser, and deviation of a base of rotatable hologram from a parallel state. These disadvantages are detrimental to efforts for increasing the resolution of a hologram scanner and lowering the cost thereof. The light beam scanning apparatus includes at least two holograms with an optical path length difference .DELTA..PHI. along a scanning beam light flux. The path length is measured from a light source to a scanning surface in the first hologram, and is represented by .DELTA..PHI.
摘要:
An optical scanning apparatus is equipped with a light source for outputting a scanning beam having a single fixed direction polarization component. A polarization control element is provided for changing the polarization direction of the scanning beam outputted from the light source. An optical element is provided for splitting the scanning beam outputted from the polarization control element into two linearly polarized beams that orthogonally cross each other. An image formation element is utilized for forming images with the two linearly polarized beams outputted from the optical element at independent locations on a scanning surface. A signal processing device is provided for controlling the light source and the polarization control element, and for switching on and off the two linearly polarized beams.