摘要:
The present invention makes possible a compact optical pickup device that eliminates effects due to the position where a sub beam is projected during tracking compensation, and provides for stable tracking compensation.A diffraction grating 12 in the optical pickup device PU gives an astigmatism to a sub beam (either of ±1-dimensional light), and shines that sub beam onto an optical disc DK. Also, a tracking error signal Ste is obtained by subtracting a push-pull signal PPsub that corresponds to a sub beam from a push-pull signal PPmain that corresponds to a main beam (0-dimensional light), and tracking compensation is performed based on that tracking error signal Ste.
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:
An optical pickup projects laser beams having the first to the third wavelengths, in response to the type of a recording medium which is an object to which recording or reproduction is to be performed, and reflecting light from the recording medium is received by a light-detecting element. In order to reduce the sizes of the optical pickup, light of the second and the third wavelengths is generated by a single dual-wavelength light source, and reflecting light of all the wavelengths is to be received by the single light-detecting element. A hologram element giving different optical effects to light of each wavelength is arranged between the light irradiating means and the light-detecting element. Thus, appropriate information recording and reproduction can be performed by using light of each wavelength.
摘要:
When recording/reading information data onto/from a recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with a first light beam, correction for decreasing the amount of spherical aberration is made just before the recording or reading. On the other hand, when recording/reading information data onto/from a recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with a second light beam, focus correction for correctly condensing the reflected light from the recording medium on the light receiving surface of a photodetector is made just before the recording or reading.
摘要:
An optical pickup projects laser beams having the first to the third wavelengths, in response to the type of a recording medium which is an object to which recording or reproduction is to be performed, and reflecting light from the recording medium is received by a light-detecting element. In order to reduce the sizes of the optical pickup, light of the second and the third wavelengths is generated by a single dual-wavelength light source, and reflecting light of all the wavelengths is to be received by the single light-detecting element. A hologram element giving different optical effects to light of each wavelength is arranged between the light irradiating means and the light-detecting element. Thus, appropriate information recording and reproduction can be performed by using light of each wavelength.
摘要:
An optical pickup is provided for recording and reproduction of information onto and from an optical disk. In the optical disk, in a forward optical path, a single polarized optical beam is converted to plural polarized optical beams. Polarization modes of the plural polarized optical beams are then converted to a polarization mode suitable for one of the recording and the reproduction to produce polarization-converted optical beams and to radiate the polarization-converted optical beams to the disk. In the backward optical path, polarization modes of the polarization-converted optical beams reflected from the disk are returned to the same polarization mode as that of the plural polarized optical beams, so that plural polarized reflected optical beams are produced. Polarization modes of the plural polarized reflected optical beams are then returned to the same polarization mode as the single polarized optical mode.
摘要:
An optical pickup reads or records information on a recording surface of a first optical record medium or a second optical record medium, each of which has a protection film different in thickness from each other. The optical pickup includes: a light beam source for emitting a light beam; a dividing unit for dividing the light beam into a non-diffracted light, which is a portion of the light beam other than diffracted lights, and a first order diffracted light; and a converging unit for converging the non-diffracted light and the first order diffracted light. Further, an optical path length between the light beam source and the converging unit is determined so that the non-diffracted light is converged onto the recording surface of the first optical record medium and a spherical aberration of the non-diffracted light converged onto the recording surface of the first optical record medium is minimized. And the dividing unit is constructed so that the first order diffracted light is converged onto the recording surface of the second optical record medium and a spherical aberration of the first order diffracted light converged onto the recording surface of the second optical record medium is minimized.
摘要:
An optical element includes a microlens array on which plural microlenses are arranged. The microlens array includes plural areas whose microlenses have different curvature radii per area. The plural areas are configured so that the farther the area exists from the center of the microlens array, the smaller the curvature radius of the microlenses arranged on the area is.
摘要:
An optical pickup device including: a light source for emitting a light beam; a beam expander having a converging lens for converging a light beam, a light-shielding panel having a through-portion arranged at an optical conjugate position of an emission point of the light beam for allowing the converged light beam to pass through and a collimator lens for collimating the light beam passed through the through-portion; an objective lens for focusing the collimated light beam to the recording layer; and a light detector for detecting the light beam reflected by the recording medium and passed through the objective lens and the beam expander and generating the error signal and the reading data signal for controlling the focusing position.
摘要:
A tracking servo apparatus in which reflection light obtained when a laser beam is irradiated onto a recording surface of an optical disc is photoelectrically converted, thereby obtaining a photoelectric conversion signal, a tracking error signal showing a deviation amount of an irradiating position of said laser beam for a track in a disc radial direction on the recording surface is generated by the photoelectric conversion signal, a spherical aberration occurring in an optical system is detected, a level of the tracking error signal is corrected on the basis of the detection result, and the irradiating position of the laser beam is moved in the disc radial direction in accordance with the level-corrected tracking error signal.