摘要:
An optical pickup device includes a laser source for emitting linearly polarized light; an objective lens for focusing source light received from the laser source on an optical information storage medium; a photodetector for receiving signal light reflected from the medium for converting the signal light into an electric signal. The photodetector includes at least a photosensor, a planar optical waveguide formed on the photosensor for propagating the signal light therethrough, diffraction grating for diffracting the signal light propagating through the waveguide, and an incidence coupler provided on the waveguide for reflecting the source light emitted from the laser source and receiving signal light obtained through the objective lens from the medium. A plane of incidence including a normal to a surface of the incidence coupler and the optical axis of the source light is formed at an angle range of 5 to 85 degrees to a plane of polarization of the source light having an electric field vector of the optical axis and the source light. Thus, the direction of polarization of the signal light from the medium is also formed at an angle range of 5 to 85 degrees to the plane of incidence for the signal light to thereby detect the presence/absence of information. This reduces the size of the pickup device.
摘要:
An information processing apparatus such as an optical disc device which is provided with an integrated photo detector for transducing a reflected light beam from an optical information medium to an electric signal. The integrated photo detector used in the apparatus comprises a substrate; an optical guide formed on the substrate; and a plurality of integrated photo detecting sections each including a grating coupler for guiding the reflected light beam to the optical guide, and a photo detecting unit for detecting a guided light beam in the optical guide. The use of this integrated photo detector results in increasing error tolerance relative to incident angle and incident position to improve the incidence efficiency, thereby elevating the reliability of the apparatus.
摘要:
In an optical scanning type tunneling microscope, reference light is prepared in addition to light used to be projected to a sample, and this reference light and also light picked up from an optical probe are caused to interfere with each other. As a result, phase information of light about a region having a very smaller dimension than a wavelength of the light irradiated from alight source can be acquired.
摘要:
In a magneto-optical recording and reproducing apparatus, a magnetic field is applied to a laser source in the direction of extension of the optical axis of the laser source to radiate a circularly polarized light beam. A magneto-optical disk has a quantum well structure and records information on the disk with the circularly polarized light beam in a magneto-optical manner.
摘要:
An optical disk drive has an aberration detector and an aberration correction circuit. A semiconductor laser device made of semiconductor crystals constituting a semiconductor laser light source includes an active layer for performing light amplification through current injection and guiding light in waveguide, a reflection member for reflecting light into said active layer, and a top electrode and a bottom electrode used for current injection to the active layer, wherein the top electrode is divided into a main electrode and a plurality of subsidiary electrodes, and injection current to the subsidiary electrodes is controlled so as to correct an aberration generated at an optical focussing system and an optical disk.
摘要:
An optical pickup whose thickness is small and power consumption is low is provided, in which these advantages are achieved by increasing the driving force generated in the tilt coil in an objective lens driving apparatus and by making the thickness of the objective lens driving apparatus to be small.In an optical pickup including: an objective lens for condensing light onto an optical disc; a lens holder to which the objective lens has been attached; a focusing coli, a tracking coil, and a tilt coil, which have been attached to the lens holder; and a reflection mirror for reflecting light toward the optical axis of the objective lens, the tilt coil is made to have a shape in which the tilt coil is not brought into contact with the side of the reflection mirror, the side being near to the objective lens.
摘要:
In a monitoring and control device for use in a remote monitoring and control system, a device housing has a socket located behind a display panel and an external storage medium including a rewritable memory is removably mounted in the socket. The device housing is attached in an attachment hole formed in a wall in a state that the external storage medium is mounted in the socket. A control unit performs a setting operation for a graphic image displayed on the display panel and for the load control in accordance with setting information stored in the external storage medium. The external storage medium is inserted in the socket through an insertion slot formed in a side portion of the device housing, at least a portion of the insertion slot being received in the attachment hole in a state that the device housing is attached to the wall.
摘要:
The present invention provides an object lens actuator in which a tilt of an object lens due to a change of an ambient temperature is inhibited even when a metal member is attached to a resin based securing part. It is desirable to improve quality of writing and playing in a disc drive using the object lens actuator. This is achieved by coupling a metal member having a flat portion and bent portions to a securing part near top ends of the bent portions. The flat portion has a normal in the focusing direction. The bent portions extend in the focusing direction from the respective ends of the flat portion in the tracking direction. The securing part has an opening therethrough in the focusing direction, and in the opening, the metal member and the securing part may be coupled between each outermost two support members in the focusing direction.
摘要:
An aspect of the invention provides an optical pickup in which an optical axis is not displaced even if ambient temperature is changed. The optical pickup of the invention has an optical unit and an optical pickup case. The optical unit has a lens member having an optical axis, and the optical axis of the lens member is offset to one side from the center of the optical unit. The optical pickup case holds the optical unit from both sides. A thermal expansion amount of the optical unit is absorbed by compression amounts of a first adhesive and a second adhesive such that the optical axis of the lens member is not displaced when the optical unit is thermal expanded.
摘要:
This invention aims at reducing a rolling moment generated in coils mounted to lens holder side face without losing drive forces in a focusing direction and tracking direction in an objective lens drive of an optical pickup device. By shifting a coil line portion near the objective lens of two coil line portions substantially parallel to the tracking direction of the first coil in a direction departing from a lens optical axis, increase and decrease in drive forces generated in right and left first coils when the lens holder is moved in the tracking direction cancel each other so as to eliminate imbalance between the right and left drive forces.