摘要:
An optical information device is provided with a first scattering medium (9), a second scattering medium (10), a third scattering medium (11); a diffraction element (4) which generates a plurality of light beams; an objective lens (6) which guides, to the first scattering medium (9) and to the third scattering medium (11) out of the first scattering medium (9), the second scattering medium (10), and the third scattering medium (11), two light beams out of the plurality of the light beams; and an arithmetic circuit (17) which detects a gap interval between the first scattering medium (9) and the third scattering medium (11), and an information medium (12), based on a change in an amount of reflected light from the first scattering medium (9) and from the third scattering medium (11).
摘要:
An optical element having compatibility among two or more wavelengths and having an excellent converging performance for light with each wavelength, and an optical head apparatus using the optical element are provided. An optical element according to the present disclosure has a first region including an optical axis and a second region formed around the outer circumference of the first region. The first region and the second region respectively have a first diffraction structure and a second diffraction structure each cyclically formed on an aspheric surface and having a step-like cross section. In the first region, the number of steps included between top portions of the first diffraction structure is different from the number of steps included between the optical axis and a top portion that is closest to the optical axis in the first diffraction structure.
摘要:
An optical memory playback apparatus is constructed so that a single longitudinal mode of laser beam emitted from a self-coupling semiconductor laser element is projected through an optical system onto an information recording medium and the laser beam reflected by the information recording medium is returned through the same optical system back to the semiconductor laser element. In addition, the apparatus interposes a spatially uneven phase plate in the optical system, whereby the longitudinal mode of emission of the semiconductor laser element is converted into a random multi-mode at all times and, consequently, the reproduction of information from the information recording medium is effected by detecting the variation in the intensity of output or terminal voltage of the semiconductor laser element which occurs in conformity with the variation in the intensity of the reflected laser beam.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux with a wavelength λ1 for recording and/or reproducing information on a first optical disc having a protective substrate with a thickness t1; a third light source for emitting a third light flux with a wavelength λ3 for recording and/or reproducing information on a third optical disc having a protective substrate with a thickness t3; and an objective lens arranged in a common optical path of the first light flux and the third light flux when the optical pickup apparatus records and/or reproduces information on each of the first and third optical discs, wherein the first light flux enters into the objective lens as a converging light flux, and a magnification m3 of the objective lens for a third light flux satisfies − 1/10≦m3
摘要:
An objective lens records information on, or read information from, a first optical medium by utilizing a first light beam which convergences on the first optical medium at a first numerical aperture (hereinafter “NA1”). The objective lens records information on, or read information from, a second optical medium by utilizing a second light beam which convergences on the second optical medium at a second numerical aperture (hereinafter “NA2”). In the objective lens, NA1 is greater than NA2. The objective lens has an optical lens for receiving the first light beam and the second light beam. The optical lens has a peripheral diffraction structure disposed substantially outside an area of incidence of the second light beam for suppressing fluctuation in wavefront aberration of the first light beam, and a phase step structure disposed in a central region relative to the peripheral region for producing a phase difference in the second light beam.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus includes a diffractive optical element, and an objective lens that focuses a light beam of a first wavelength λ1, a light beam of a second wavelength λ2 and a light beam of a third wavelength λ3 on a first recording medium, a second recording medium, and a third recording medium, respectively, the wavelengths λ1, λ2, and λ3 being different from each other. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffractive surface that neither diffracts the light beam of the first wavelength λ1 nor the light beam of the third wavelength λ3 but diffracts the light beam of the second wavelength λ2, and a second diffractive surface that neither diffracts the light beam of the first wavelength λ1 nor the light beam of the second wavelength λ2 but diffracts the light beam of the third wavelength λ3, and each of the first and second diffractive surfaces satisfies the following condition inequality: Λ/λ≧8 wherein A represents the minimum pitch in the case that the width which generates a phase difference of one wavelength when the closest wavefronts resulting from adjacent steps in each of the diffractive surfaces are linked with each other is defined as one pitch, and λ represents the wavelength of the diffracted light.
摘要:
An optical memory includes a support and nanoparticles, each of which changes between a crystal phase and an amorphous phase when irradiated with light. The nanoparticles are supported by the support and spaced apart from each other in one or both of an in-plane direction of a face of the support and a direction normal to the face of the support.
摘要:
An optical pickup device includes a semiconductor laser that emits a laser beam, and an object lens that concentrates the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser on an optical disc. In this optical pickup device, an optical axis of the object lens is inclined with respect to an optical axis of the laser beam that is incident on the object lens so as to generate flares caused by coma aberration on an entrance side in a forward direction of pits of the optical disc.
摘要:
An optical pickup device includes a semiconductor laser that emits a laser beam, and an object lens that concentrates the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser on an optical disc. In this optical pickup device, an optical axis of the object lens is inclined with respect to an optical axis of the laser beam that is incident on the object lens so as to generate flares caused by coma aberration on an entrance side in a forward direction of pits of the optical disc.
摘要:
This invention provides an optical element which has an optical surface in which a first light beam having a wavelength λx and a second light beam having a wavelength λy, which are emitted from light sources, become incident, including a diffraction structure in which a plurality of zone portions are formed, the zone portions being arranged in a radial direction about an optical axis and forming one period by a plurality of zones formed into a staircase shape divided by steps in a section including the optical axis, wherein the plurality of zone portions of said diffraction structure include a first zone portion and a second zone portion whose numbers of zones in one period are different, and of the plurality of zones which form one period, the zones except the zone which gives a largest optical path length to the passing second light beam have at least two different widths in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and of the plurality of zones which form the zone portion, two zones which are adjacent to each other via a step are designed to give no actual phase difference to the first light beam to pass the first light beam and give a phase difference to the second light beam to generate a diffraction effect, and an optical pickup device having the optical element.