摘要:
In an optical recording and reproducing apparatus, two light sources such as a laser diode of different wavelengths from each other are provided, and photosensors receive the light emitted by the light sources and reflected by the optical recording medium. Before recording or reproduction is started, the type of optical recording medium having a different wavelength dependent reflectance is discriminated. Because two wavelengths are used, the difference of the outputs is large, and the type of the optical recording medium is discriminated reliably according to the outputs of the photosensors. Then, the operation of the apparatus is stabilized according to the type of the optical recording medium by optimizing the laser power, the gain of the controller, the revolution number of the medium or the like.
摘要:
The combination of recordable-reproduceable optical discs and reproducing-only optical discs and an optical disc player which is capable of reproducing recorded signals both from the recordable-reproduceable optical disc possessing pregrooves and the reproducing-only optical disc possessing recording pits by means of a common optical system. The common optical system has a common laser for irradiating both types of discs with a laser beam used for reading the discs. The wavelength of the laser is .lambda. and the depth or height of the pregrooves of the recordable-reproduceable optical disc is made equal to or less than .lambda./8n, and the depth or height of the recording pits of the reproducing-only optical disc is made equal to or greater than .lambda./8n but less than .lambda./4n, wherein n is the refractive index of the substrate of the disc or the protective layer provided on the surface thereof.
摘要:
The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using such an optical element. The invention also presents a novel optical recording/reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method. The optical element, includes a first voltage application electrode 13, a first opposing electrode 17 arranged in opposition to the first voltage application electrode 13, and a first phase changing layer 15 arranged between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17. By changing a voltage between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17, a phase that converts plane waves into spherical waves is imparted on light that is incident on the first phase changing layer 15.
摘要:
The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using such an optical element. The invention also presents a novel optical recording/reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method. The optical element, includes a first voltage application electrode 13, a first opposing electrode 17 arranged in opposition to the first voltage application electrode 13, and a first phase changing layer 15 arranged between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17. By changing a voltage between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17, a phase that converts plane waves into spherical waves is imparted on light that is incident on the first phase changing layer 15.
摘要:
The invention presents an optical element with which an optical head can be configured, in which there is little deterioration of the correctional effect when the objective lens shifts, as well as an optical head and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using such an optical element. The invention also presents a novel optical recording/reproducing apparatus and optical recording/reproducing method. The optical element, includes a first voltage application electrode 13, a first opposing electrode 17 arranged in opposition to the first voltage application electrode 13, and a first phase changing layer 15 arranged between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17. By changing a voltage between the first voltage application electrode 13 and the first opposing electrode 17, a phase that converts plane waves into spherical waves is imparted on light that is incident on the first phase changing layer 15.
摘要:
A returning light beam emitted by a light source and reflected by an optical disk is separated by a half mirror, and partitioned and deflected at a hologram into a light beam passing a first region and a light beam passing a second region. The light beam passing the first region is received by a plurality of photo-detectors, and the aberration is detected by comparing the resulting signals. Based on the aberration detection, the aberration of an optical system can be reduced by driving an aberration correction element in real-time.
摘要:
A returning light beam emitted by a light source and reflected by an optical disk is separated by a half mirror, and partitioned and deflected at a hologram into a light beam passing a first region and a light beam passing a second region. The light beam passing the first region is received by a plurality of photo-detectors, and the aberration is detected by comparing the resulting signals. Based on the aberration detection, the aberration of an optical system can be reduced by driving an aberration correction element in real-time.
摘要:
A light beam emitted from a semiconductor laser element is collimated by a collimating lens, and is applied to an optical disk through a polarizing holographic beam splitter, a .lambda./4 plate and an objective lens, a light beam reflected by the optical disk is applied to the polarizing holographic beam splitter and is diffracted. Diffracted light beams of +1st order and -1st order are applied to two photodetectors, and a focus error signal and a tracking error signal are obtained on the basis of the diffracted light beam of +1st order and an information signal is obtained on the basis of the diffracted light beam of -1st order.
摘要:
Disclosed is a compact optical pick-up head apparatus suitable for mass-production, which comprises a light radiation source, an element composed of photodetector split into a plurality of regions and integrated on the same base, an objective lens for focusing a beam from the above source on an optical disk, a blazed hologram integrated to the support member of the lens, a means for driving the support member to which the objective lens and blazed hologram are integrated in response to an output as servo signal output from the photodetector which receives a diffracted beam produced in such a manner that a return beam reflected or diffracted by the optical disk is incident on the objective lens integrated with the above hologram. The optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention employs a region-split-type phase hologram in which a pair of Flesnel zone plate-like patterns, by which a plurality of diffraction wavefronts having a different focus and the same diffraction order are produced outside an optical-axis, are non-superimposedly formed. The above hologram can be blazed with a pinpoint accuracy by lithography using a few mask patterns synthesized by a computer, and further a more preferably blazing can be realized by the combination of the ion beam etching and the lithography. Accordingly, not only noise caused by an unnecessary diffracted beam component but also the offset of a servo signal can be restrained and the size of the objective lens can be reduced by the integration of the entire optical system, which greatly contributes to the superminiaturization of an optical head.
摘要:
An optical pickup head apparatus comprises a hologram element disposed in the flux of light reflected back from an optical disc, and first and second photodetectors respectively having linear element boundaries extending in a predetermined direction and disposed so as to receive two-focal-point images on their coplanar detection surfaces, whereby the tolerable width of variation in the light source wavelength and the tolerable range of error in the assembling adjustment of the optics can be extended considerably to permit stable differential signal detection.