Abstract:
An optical scanning apparatus for performing scanning by focusing a beam scattered by a bubble which moves at a predetermined speed within a closed loop fluid pipe, thereby forming an image. The optical scanning apparatus includes a light source for emitting light; a closed loop fluid pipe; a fluid contained in the fluid pipe, transmitting the light emitted from the light source; at least one bubble contained in the fluid pipe, scattering incident light; a pump installed at one side of the fluid pipe, circulating the bubble at a predetermined speed; and an image formation lens focusing the light emitted by the light source and scattered by the at least one bubble to form an image on a predetermined scanning line. Accordingly, the volume of the optical scanning apparatus can be reduced, and the optical scanning apparatus can be easily manufactured. Consequently, productivity can be increased.
Abstract:
An optical pickup includes a light source emitting a laser beam and an optical path changing unit altering a traveling path of an incident beam. An objective lens, disposed on an optical path between the optical path changing unit and an optical disk, focuses the incident beam from the light source to form a light spot on the optical disk of the objective lens. The optical pickup further includes a photodetector and an detecting-correcting unit, arranged on the optical path between the optical path changing unit and the objective lens, performing at least one of detecting the thickness of the optical disk and correcting aberration caused by thickness variations of the optical disk. The objective lens includes a first transmitting portion divergently transmitting an incident beam, where the first transmitting portion is at a relatively near-axis region from an optical axis of the objective lens. A second transmitting portion transmits the incident beam, where the second transmitting portion is arranged facing the first transmitting portion. A first reflecting portion condenses and reflects the incident beam from the first transmitting portion, where the first reflecting portion is formed around the second transmitting portion. A second reflecting portion condenses and reflects the incident beam from the first reflecting portion towards the second transmitting portion, where the second reflecting portion is formed around the first transmitting portion.
Abstract:
A swing-arm type optical recording and reproducing apparatus and an optical disk applicable to the same. The optical disk includes a substrate having an information recording surface to record and reproduce an information signal, and a protective layer which is provided on the information recording surface and whose surface facing a slider is a flat even surface so that variations in a floating height of the slider can be reduced. The optical recording and reproducing apparatus further includes, an optical head having a light source provided at a swing arm to emit light of a predetermined wavelength; an optical path changing means provided in the optical path of the light emitted from the light source for changing the proceeding path of incident light; a collimating lens installed at the slider to preliminarily converge the light emitted from the light source and entering via the optical path changing means; an objective lens installed at the slider to converge the light which is emitted from the light source and enters via the optical path changing means to form an optical spot on the optical disk; and a photodetector to receive the light which is reflected from the optical disk and enters via the objective lens, the collimating lens, and the optical path changing means. The optical head detects an information signal and an error signal in order to reduce defocus due to variations in ambient temperature and variations in the wavelength of the light of the light source.
Abstract:
An optical recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes transfer means, a substrate transfer table transferred by the transfer means at a predetermined speed, a drum facing the substrate transfer table and rotating so that the speed of its outer circumferential surface is the same as the speed of a substrate transfer table, a stamp installed on the outer circumferential surface of the drum forming an information recording pit pattern, and resin supply means for injecting molten resin between the stamp and the substrate supported on the table. Since a multi-layer unit can be molded continuously by using the molten resin according to the present invention, there is the advantage of improved productivity.
Abstract:
A multi-layer optical recording medium manufacturing method and apparatus thereof forms a resin layer having a second recording layer on a first recording layer. The first recording layer includes a reflecting layer and a first recording layer sequentially formed on a transparent substrate. The multi-layer optical recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes an upper and a lower mold on which is respectively fixed the transparent substrate and a stamp such that they are facing each other. Communicating holes formed in the transparent substrate and the stamp are formed in center portions of each of the molds. A punch member capable of vertical movement is established in the communicating hole of the lower mold, and resin supply established in the communicating hole of the upper mold. The above apparatus has the advantage of improving productivity of the manufacture of a multi-layer optical recording medium.
Abstract:
A reflection type compound prism and an optical pickup apparatus employing the same. As a light beam is passed through the compound prism, a size of the light beam in a direction perpendicular to a reference plane is reduced by a first reflection surface, propagated toward an objective lens by second and third reflection surfaces and the size restored by reflecting the light beam from a fourth reflection surface forming an angle less than 45° with respect to the reference plane so that a height of an optical system is reducible to obtain a small thin optical pickup with a desired NA. The second and third reflection surfaces are spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the reference plane by an amount close to a diameter of the light beam at a point of incidence of the light beam with the compound prism.
Abstract:
A disc balancing device and a method thereof. The disc balancing device includes a disc assembly having a driving source, and a disc rotatably disposed at the driving source, a displacement measurement unit measuring vibration in the rotation of the disc assembly, a phase angle measurement unit measuring a phase angle from a reference point of the disc assembly in the rotation of the disc assembly, an operation/control unit calculating an eccentric mass and an eccentric position of the disc assembly, by using the biased vibration measured in the displacement measurement unit and the phase angle measured in the phase angle measurement unit, and a laser cutter tracking and laser-cutting the side portion of the disc corresponding to the eccentric position according to the information from the operation/control unit, whereby the eccentric mass of the disc assembly is balanced to reduce vibration in the rotation.
Abstract:
A method of initializing a phase transformation-type optical disk. The initialization method includes the steps of: (a) preparing a phase transformation-type optical disk in which a first dielectric layer, a recording layer including a small amount of crystalline structure in a major amorphous structure, a second dielectric layer and a reflective layer are sequentially deposited on a substrate; (b) irradiating a high power laser beam, which is enough to heat the recording layer to a temperature above its melting point, onto the optical disk, thereby transforming the crystalline structure in the recording layer into an amorphous structure; and (c) irradiating a lower power laser beam, which is capable of heating the recording layer to a temperature range above a recrystallization temperature and below its melting point, onto the optical disk, thereby transforming the amorphous structure of the recording layer into the crystalline structure.
Abstract:
An optical tape cassette and a player for using the cassette. The optical tape cassette includes a drum on which optical tape is wound and two tape reels for supplying and winding the tape. The cassette player includes a driver having two rotating members which can be connected to the drum and tape take-up reel for driving the drum and tape take-up reel, respectively, and an optical pickup for projecting a light beam onto the optical tape which is wound about the periphery of the drum, thereby realizing a simplified structure and easy handling for home use.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for fabricating a read only optical disc enables mass production of a read only optical disc at low cost in a short period of time. The method includes a source disc fabricating step and a duplicating step of duplicating information of the source disc to a target disc. The source disc has a transparent substrate and a predetermined opaque write layer coated thereon, and write holes for transmitting light on the write layer, thereby storing information according to the arrangement of the write holes. The target disc has a photochromic write layer which has different absorption coefficients before and after the duplication. Here, the method uses an optical writing apparatus for optically forming the write holes of the source disc and a duplicating apparatus for optically duplicating the information from the source disc to the target disc.