摘要:
A method includes: producing a readback signal using a recording head positioned adjacent to a recording medium, amplitude demodulating the readback signal to produce an amplitude demodulated signal, frequency demodulating the readback signal to produce a frequency demodulated signal, and using the amplitude demodulated signal and the frequency demodulated signal to determine contact of the recording head with the recording medium. An apparatus that can be used to implement the method is also provided.
摘要:
A method includes: producing a readback signal using a recording head positioned adjacent to a recording medium, amplitude demodulating the readback signal to produce an amplitude demodulated signal, frequency demodulating the readback signal to produce a frequency demodulated signal, and using the amplitude demodulated signal and the frequency demodulated signal to determine contact of the recording head with the recording medium. An apparatus that can be used to implement the method is also provided.
摘要:
An apparatus includes a first capacitive sensor connected to a first supply voltage, a second capacitive sensor connected to a second supply voltage, a sensing circuit for producing a sense voltage in response to current flowing in the first and second capacitive sensors, a first mixer for combining the sense voltage with a first reference voltage to produce a first signal representative of in-plane displacement between electrodes of the first and second capacitive sensors, and a second mixer for combining the sense voltage with a second reference voltage to produce a second signal representative of out-of-plane displacement between the electrodes of the first and second capacitive sensors.
摘要:
The invention relates to a new class of schemes for simultaneously compensating readout channel distortions in optical storage systems, such as defocus, spherical aberrations, optical data carrier tangential tilt, and radial tilt. The use of cascaded adaptive filtering steps applied to the readout data signal is proposed. A first adaptive phase-filtering step (WAP), dedicated to the compensation of the non-linear phase distortion caused by the tangential tilt, is made adaptive to a measure of the tangential tilt. A second adaptive amplitude-filtering step, dedicated to the compensation of amplitude channel frequency response distortions caused by tangential tilt as well as other channel distortions such as the defocus and the spherical aberration or other types of distortions which influence mainly only the amplitude frequency response of the channel, is made adaptive to an adaptation signal (ADS) generated by an adaptation step (ADAPT) defining a set of coefficients defining a filter used in this second filtering step, in minimizing an error between the output data signal and a target data signal, such as a least mean squares (LMS) error-based algorithm or zero-forcing (ZF) adaptation algorithm. Use: Optical reader/writer
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical storage medium (20) comprising a first data area (21) for storing content and a second data area (23) for storing limitation data (24) for limiting access to at least a portion of the first data area. It is desired that the period of time for which access to content stored on the storage medium is limited, such that, for instance, after said period of time unlimited access to said content is granted. To achieve this a state change means (27) is provided on the storage medium, adapted for changing its optical reflectivity and/or transmittance over time, said change directly preventing access to the second data area after a limited period of time or being indirectly used to decide whether access to the at least one portion of the first data area shall be limited according to said limitation data.
摘要:
A device reads and/or records marks in a track on a record carrier via near field optical recording. The device has a head including a lens to be positioned at a near field distance from a surface of the record carrier. An air gap controller is for controlling an air gap (81) between the lens and the surface, and has an approach mode for bringing the lens from a remote distance in the far field to the near field distance. Thereto the controller provides an increasing periodical excitation signal (83) for generating a sequence of approach instants at which the lens approaches the surface. At the approach instants the lens has substantially zero velocity (84). The sequence of approach instants brings the lens subsequently closer to the surface. When the lens enters in the near field range at one of the approach instants, the air gap controller is switched to closed loop mode. The periodical excitation (83) is synchronized to the rotation of the record carrier such that the approach instants correspond to a minimum of the disc displacement (82).
摘要:
An optical storage interface apparatus comprises a lens module (LM). The lens module (LM) may comprise, for example, a solid immersion lens for near-field optical readout or near-field optical recording, or both. The lens module (LM) forms a light spot (SP) on an optical information carrier (DSK) in response to a light beam (BO) that is projected on the lens module (LM). A lens actuator (LA) moves the lens module (LM) from a rest position, which is relatively distant from the optical information carrier (DSK), to a read position, which is relatively close to the optical information carrier (DSK). A controller verifies whether the lens module (LM), when moving from the rest position to the read position, has a velocity that is below a velocity threshold or not. If not, the controller causes the lens actuator (LA) to pull back the lens module (LM) with respect to the optical information carrier (DSK).
摘要:
A signal processing technique is proposed for compensating for radial to focus crosstalk in an optical storage system including an astigmatic lens (25) and four-quadrant photodetector (26) for generating a focus error signal. A signal processor generates the focus error signal (FESRVO), a tracking error signal (TES) and a central aperture signal (CA) and the proposed radial and focus crosstalk scheme can be described by the following equation (I): Where IFESRVO represents the improved focus error signal and y1j and y2j are vector components for scaling. Instead, scalar adaptive scaling factors γ1 and γ2 may be applied which can be updated by minimising a cost function J(y1, y2), which is able to imply the radial to focus crosstalk components remaining in the focus error signal.
摘要:
In an optical storage interface apparatus, a spot-forming lens projects a light spot on an optical information carrier in response to a light beam from a light source. There is an air gap (AG) between the spot-forming lens and the optical information carrier. A gap detector (PHD2) provides a gap indication signal (GIS) that varies with the air gap (AG) in accordance with a gap indication transfer function (F). A lens-positioning arrangement (CTRL, ACT) positions the spot-forming lens with respect to the optical information carrier on the basis of the gap indication signal (GIS). The lens-positioning arrangement (CTRL, ACT) comprises a compensator (CMP) for compensating nonlinearity in the gap indication transfer function (F). A suitable compensation transfer function (G) can be established on the basis of servo control loop measurements. Accordingly, compensation can be provided without any prior knowledge of the gap indication transfer function (F).
摘要:
A device reads and/or records marks in a track on a record carrier via near field optical recording. The device has a head including a lens to be positioned at a near field distance from a surface of the record carrier. An air gap controller is for controlling an air gap between the lens and the surface, and has an approach mode for bringing the lens from a remote distance in the far field (72) to the near field distance. Thereto the controller provides an increasing periodical excitation signal (73) for generating a sequence of approach instants (77) at which the lens approaches the surface. At the approach instants the lens has substantially zero velocity (76). The sequence of approach instants brings the lens subsequently closer to the surface. When the lens enters in the near field range (71) at one of the approach instants (77), the air gap controller is switched to closed loop mode.