摘要:
The invention relates to a velocity determination apparatus for determining a relative velocity between a first object (12), to which the velocity determination apparatus is attachable, and a second object (1). The velocity determination apparatus comprises a laser (3) having a laser cavity (4) for emitting first radiation (5), which is reflected by the second object (1), wherein the reflected radiation interferes with the first radiation (5) within the laser cavity (4). An interference signal detector (7) detects an interference signal depending on the interference within the laser cavity (4) and a velocity determination unit (8) determines the relative velocity based on the interference signal. A reliability value determination unit (9) determines a reliability value for indicating the reliability of the determined relative velocity based on at least one of the group consisting of the detected interference signal, the determined relative velocity and a characteristic of the laser.
摘要:
The invention relates to a velocity determination apparatus for determining a relative velocity between a first object (12), to which the velocity determination apparatus is attachable, and a second object (1). The velocity determination apparatus comprises a laser (3) having a laser cavity (4) for emitting first radiation (5), which is reflected by the second object (1), wherein the reflected radiation interferes with the first radiation (5) within the laser cavity (4). An interference signal detector (7) detects an interference signal depending on the interference within the laser cavity (4) and a velocity determination unit (8) determines the relative velocity based on the interference signal. A reliability value determination unit (9) determines a reliability value for indicating the reliability of the determined relative velocity based on at least one of the group consisting of the detected interference signal, the determined relative velocity and a characteristic of the laser.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical scanning device for reading and/or writing on a plurality of tracks on an optical storage medium (1), said scanning device comprising optical means (17) for focusing a plurality of beams, after being reflected from said medium, onto an observation plane (22), and for introducing astigmatism into at least one of said reflected beams, and a photo-detector (18) comprising a plurality of detector segments, arranged in said observation plane (22) to receive said at least one astigmatic reflected beam. The scanning device further comprises means (19) for generating a focus error signal (FES) by combining signals produced by said detector segments, means (19) for generating a central aperture signal by adding signals from all the detector segments, and means (19, 21) for determining when said central aperture signal exceeds a predefined threshold, indicating a useful range of said focus error signal, and, when this is the case, adjusting the focus of said objective lens (15) based on said focus error signal. According to this design, the CA-signal ensures that tracking is only based on the focus error signal in a range in which tracking can be based on it, thereby ensuring satisfactory closed loop tracking.
摘要:
In the described method of producing a plurality of bodies bearing equal imprints of a stamp as optical structures, a stamp (13) is initially produced, by attaching particles (14) to a surface (15) of an auxiliary body (16); than, the stamp (13) is used to produce an imprint (11) on a plurality of bodies (10). Optical structures can be irradiated, producing on a screen a speckle pattern indicative of a key. It is substantially impossible to clone a given optical structure with current technological means. Optical structures represent physical One-Way Functions, easy to compute in the forward sense but unfeasible to reverse. Thus, they can be used to build an access/copy protection system of user information contained in an information carrier associated with the body 10. The reproducibility of the optical structures makes this method suitable for optical disks.
摘要:
The invention relates to a storage medium for the optical storage and retrieval of information, the storage medium comprising: a substrate and an active layer for retention of data. According to the invention, the active layer is provided with a pre-determined pattern (4) of bit positions (14, 14′, . . . ). Preferably, the substrate is provided with the pre-determined pattern of bit positions. The storage medium has a relatively high data density.
摘要:
The invention relates to a record carrier for the storage and retrieval of information, comprising: a substrate (1), an active layer (2) for retention of information, the active layer employing bit-position encoding for the storage and retrieval of information and an energy shielding layer for shielding the energy during writing of the information in the active layer. Preferably, the energy shielding layer comprises a patterned reflective mask layer (3) or a switchable mask layer. Preferably, the reflective mask layer comprises a material with a relatively high thermal conductivity. Preferably, the patterned reflective mask layer comprises a metal or a metal alloy, preferably comprising aluminum silver, gold or copper. Preferably, the switchable mask layer comprises a thermo-chromic layer and is substantially transparent during the retrieval of information from the active layer. According to the invention, the record carrier has a relatively high information density.
摘要:
A lithographic apparatus equipped with an improved alignment system, is presented herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a radiation system for providing a projection beam of radiation, a support structure for supporting a patterning device that configures the projection beam according to a desired pattern, a substrate holder for holding a substrate, projection system for projecting the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and an alignment system. The alignment system comprises a radiation source for illuminating at least one mark which is usable for alignment on a substrate and an imaging system for imaging light which has interacted with the at least one mark to generate alignment information.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical reader for a two dimensional storage disc, comprising means (21, 22, 14, 15) for generating a plurality of laser beams and projecting said beams onto a rotating disc, means (24, 25, 26) for detecting the beams after being diffracted by the disc, and means (24, 27, 28) for determining a focus error signal (29) based on one of said plurality of beams. The plurality of beams comprises an array of beams having a first polarization, and a dedicated central focus tracking beam having a second polarization, orthogonal to the first polarization. The beams may be generated by a polarization dependent diffraction element. Or a beam having one polarization may be diffracted into a plurality of beams and recombined with a beam having another polarization.
摘要:
A pick-up unit, an optical drive comprising such a pick-up unit, and a method of generating error-signals are described. Light reflected from an information carrier is injected into one or more VCSELs. The spatial intensity distribution of the emission from the VCSEL(s) is used for the generation of error signals in an optical pick-up unit. Alternatively, the relative timing for the switching of individual lasers of an array of VCSELs is used for the detection of error signals.
摘要:
A recording apparatus for recording channel symbols of a channel data stream on a record carrier (50), said apparatus being adapted for recording said channel symbols as a channel band (cb) of at least two symbol rows (sr) one-dimensionally evolving along a first direction (t) and aligned with each other along a second direction (r), said two directions constituting a two-dimensional lattice of symbol cells (sc) each being associated with a symbol area (sa) of the record carrier (50). To reduce the occurrence of leading and trailing edges of pit-marks in the recorded channel band, and in order to be able to write a small radial extent in said second direction in view of limiting cross-write effects, it is proposed to record a channel symbols in the form of a mark area (rpm) having a longitudial shape of a length in said first direction (1) substantially equal to the length of a symbol area (sa) in said first direction (t) and of a width in said second direction (r) being smaller than the width of a symbol area (sa) in said second direction (sa).