摘要:
Provided is a holographic data storage system characterized by including: a first polarizing beam splitter (PBS), wherein at least either of a first lens module and a second lens module transmits P-polarized light and reflects S-polarized light; a relay lens collecting light passing through the first PBS; a mirror reflecting the light collected through the relay lens back to the relay lens; and a quarter wave plate located between a second PBS beam splitter and the relay lens, converting transmitted linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and converting the circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light. By reducing the volume of the relay lens, it is possible to decrease the size of the holographic data storage system, and by decreasing the number of lenses, it is possible to lower manufacturing costs.
摘要:
A conventional broadband quarter-wave plate has not completely solved the wavelength dependence and has different efficiencies of shifting the phase by 90° depending on the wavelengths, and therefore has a problem that it cannot fulfill the strict specifications on the optical characteristics which are demanded of a wave plate from a viewpoint of the optical efficiency and the like in an optical pickup device compatible with a plurality of different wavelengths. To provide a wave plate which completely functions as a quarter-wave plate with respect to a plurality of different wavelengths and an optical pickup using that wave plate to solve the problem, the present invention provides a laminated wave plate, wherein a wave plate with a phase difference α and a wave plate with a phase difference β with respect to monochromatic light with a wavelength λ are laminated in such a way that directions of optical axes of said plates intersect each other, so that the laminated wave plate, as a whole, functions as a quarter-wave plate, and which is characterized in that a relationship between the α and the β satisfies the following formulas: (3/2)×π≠α−2×π×([[n]]m−1) π≠β−2×π×(n−1),wherein: each of m and n is a positive integer.
摘要:
In an optical head having a plate-like half mirror functioning both as a beam splitter and for producing an astigmatism usable in detecting a focusing error, an optical element is provided for correcting a coma introduced by the half-mirror. Such optical element for correcting coma desirably includes a plate-like element inclined oppositely to the plate-like half mirror in respect to an optical axis of the head.
摘要:
An optical information processing apparatus comprises an information recording medium, a semiconductor laser diode for issuing a laser beam and an optical system adapted to direct the issued laser beam from the semiconductor laser diode toward the information recording medium and then return the reflected laser beam from the medium to the diode and provided with means capable of rotating the plane of polarization of the reflected laser beam from the medium by 90.degree. relative to the plane of polarization of the issued laser beam.
摘要:
It is possible to provide a new information recording/reproduction method and a device which can realize a small-size large-capacity memory having a characteristic equivalent to or higher than a hologram memory. The optical information recording/reproduction device includes: recording light generator (51) which generates a recording light (55) in a polarization state having two mutually orthogonal polarization components with a phase difference at an arbitrary polarization base; reproduction light generator (61) which generates a reproduction light (65) in a polarization state having only a single polarization component at a arbitrary polarization basis; recording medium (71) in which optical information is recorded by recording light (55) and the recorded optical information is reproduced by reproduction light; and optical information detector (polarimeter 81) which retrieves information light (72) after being applied to recording medium (71) and detects the light as optical information. Provided is also an optical information recording/reproduction method using the device.
摘要:
A two wavelength laser module is made up of a semiconductor laser assembly that includes a first semiconductor laser for emitting a first light beam of a first polarization direction and a second semiconductor laser for emitting a second light beam of a second polarization direction. The second light beam is emitted approximately in the same direction as that of the first light beam and has a shorter wavelength than that of the first light beam. The first and second semiconductor lasers are disposed on a substrate. The module includes a polarization diffraction element for causing a divergence angle of the first light beam to differ from that of the second light beam.
摘要:
A polarizing beam splitter (21) is secured in a state wherein a bottom plate (2102) thereof contacts closely with an upper face of a substrate (16) and a light receiving element (23) without a gap left therebetween. A quarter-wave plate (17) is attached to the polarizing beam splitter in a state wherein a lower face (1702) thereof contacts closely with an upper face (2104) without a gap left therebetween such that the lengthwise directions and the widthwise directions of them coincide with each other. An objective lens plate (18) is attached in a state wherein a lower face (1806) thereof contacts closely with an upper face (1704) of the quarter-wave plate without a gap left therebetween. A light source (22) is bonded at a mount member (22B) thereof to the upper face of the substrate by means of a bonding agent or the like such that an emitting face of a semiconductor laser (22A) and a front face of the mount member contact closely with a portion of a side face (2106) of the polarizing beam splitter without a gap left therebetween.
摘要:
An optical pickup device is placed in a video and/or audio disc player operative to reproduce information recorded in the form of an optical pattern such as a train of pits on a recording disc, in which the direction of light beam emitted from a light source is parallel to the propagation path of light impinging onto and reflected from the recording disc toward a photosensor. A polarization prism is used to deflect the light from the light source toward the recording disc, which prism cooperates with a quarter wave plate to act as a beam splitter.
摘要:
A method for forming birefringent voxels comprises simultaneously generating a first seed pulse and a first data pulse. The first seed pulse and the first data pulse are spatially-separated laser pulses having different amplitudes. The first seed pulse is focused at a first seed location, and the data pulse is focused at a first data location. The first seed location and the first data location are separated by a predetermined distance along a scan path, with the first seed location being ahead of the first data location. Subsequently, a second seed pulse and a second data pulse are generated, and focused at a second seed location and second data location, respectively. The second seed and data locations are separated by the predetermined distance. The second data location is the same as the first seed location, resulting in formation of a birefringent voxel.
摘要:
An optical pickup includes an optical base mounted with at least one optical element, a light source that supplies light incident on the at least one optical element, and a tilt spacer that is disposed between the light source and the optical base to adjust a characteristic of the light that enters the optical base. With the characteristic of the light that enters the optical base adjusted by the tilt spacer, the optical base and the light source are fixed directly to each other.