Abstract:
A solid immersion mirror (SIM) type objective lens and an optical pickup employing the same. The objective lens has a first curved surface which condenses incident light and a second curved surface surrounding the first curved surface which diverges incident light. A second transmission surface disposed to face the first transmission surface has an area which transmits incident light and a first reflection surface surrounding the second transmission surface which reflects incident light. A second reflection surface which surrounds the second curved reflects incident light. The objective lens realizes an NA of 0.7 or more with a single lens; has a working distance enabling far field recording/reproducing; has a smaller blocking area than that of the conventional SIM; and generates a smaller amount of side lobe. Where the objective lens is adopted in an optical pickup device, generation of jitter during reproduction or cross erasure during recording is minimized.
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 45null 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 variable capacitor and a memory device employing the same. The variable capacitor includes a first electrode formed above a substrate; a second electrode suspended with respect to the first electrode to be moved back and forth with respect to the first electrode; and an actuator for varying a capacitance. One end of the actuator is connected to the second electrode and mounted with respect to the substrate to move the second electrode with respect to the first electrode in accordance with a voltage signal input through a driving electrode exposed externally. The memory device includes a transistor having a source, a gate, and a drain formed above a substrate, which are spaced apart from each other, a capacitor connected to the source, and an actuator varying a capacitance of the capacitor. With the variable capacitor and the memory device employing the same, the variable capacitor allows the correction of a capacitance error caused during the manufacturing process by varying the capacitance of the capacitor through the electrical driving voltage and provides compatibility in use to be fit to the specification of an electronic unit to which the capacitor is to be applied. The memory device can store multiple values more extensive than binary values in one memory cell, to increase the data storage density thereof.
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.