摘要:
An information recording/reproducing method includes: setting light beam power from a light source, to second power P2, which is weaker than first power P1, and detecting the number of the recording layers provided for an optical disc; controlling an objective lens to focus the light beam on one recording layer which is the closest to the objective lens, in a condition that the detected number of the recording layers ≧3; setting the power of the light beam to third power P3, between P1 and P2; specifying the number of the recording layers provided for the optical disc on the basis of layer information, which is information associated with the one recording layer; and setting the power of the light beam to P1, reading the layer type information recorded in advance in the one recording layer, and specifying a disc type based on the read layer type information.
摘要:
An optical disc drive according to the present invention includes: a laser light source 2 for emitting a laser beam; a photodetector 10 for detecting a signal that has been supplied from an optical disc 100; and an optical system 200 for irradiating the optical disc 100 with the laser beam and guiding the light reflected from the optical disc 11 to the photodetector 10. The drive further includes a memory 300 for storing information defining a relation between the output value of the photodetector 10 and the output power of the laser light source 2 when the laser light source 2 is emitting the laser beam but the light reflected from the optical disc 100 fails to reach the photodetector 10; and a control section 400 for controlling the output power of the laser light source 2 based on the information stored in the memory 300 and the output of the photodetector 10 when the laser light source 2 is emitting the laser beam but the light reflected from the optical disc fails to reach the photodetector 10.
摘要:
With a large capacity of an optical disk and high-speed recording, a frequency of a recording signal is increased and a pulse width is narrowed. In the case that a laser is driven by a signal having the short pulse width, unfortunately the high-speed recording is hardly performed to an optical disk when a rise time and a fall time of the optical pulse are lengthened.During user data recording, a bottom driving current is set to a second bottom driving current value that is a current value of a threshold or less, so that the rise time and the fall time of the optical pulse can be shortened to perform the high-speed recording of the optical disk.
摘要:
A copy prevention apparatus is provided by an operating system. A data area is shared by a plurality of applications that operate on the operating system. A data area monitoring unit monitors storing of copy prevention data into the data area and a data area copy preventing unit prevents copying of the copy prevention data from the data area based on a result of the monitoring by the data area monitoring unit.
摘要:
A disk apparatus includes a DSP (Digital Signal Processor), and the DSP performs a test writing and a test reading on a magneto-optical disk rotated in a ZCLV system to obtain an optimal reproduction laser power value (reference reproduction laser power value) “Pt” at a linear velocity of 30 Mbps in the ZCLV system. Next, by use of a relational expression between a power coefficient and a linear velocity, a linear velocity coefficient “αx” as an optimal reproduction laser power value at a desired linear velocity (zone) “Vx” in a ZCAV system is obtained when the reference reproduction laser power value is multiplied. Then, the optimal reproduction laser power value at the zone in the ZCAV system is obtained by multiplying the reference reproduction laser power value “Pt” by the linear velocity coefficient “αx”.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for recording information which presume a recording state from reflected light during recording to achieve a stable recording quality. When recording information on an optical disk by irradiating laser light with a specified record power (Pw) to form a train of record pits, the recording is performed while forcing a value (CF) of B/Pw2 to be kept substantially constant, where B is the value obtainable by sample-hold of a reflection light amount upon irradiation of the laser light with the specified record power (Pw). Performing the recording in this way makes it possible to realize the recording quality with increased stability. In addition, upon alteration of a tilt angle, arithmetic processing is redone to thereby achieve the stability-enhanced recording quality.
摘要:
An optical pickup with a laser driver circuit is provided to overcome an increase in size of an optical pickup, which is caused by a ferrite bead or capacitor being provided in a drive current path to reduce EMI noise effects. In an optical disc apparatus, an optical sensor element detects a laser beam from a laser emission element included in an optical pickup circuit and then sends the detected signal to a main circuit board. An APC circuit in the main circuit board outputs a control signal to control the laser output from the laser emission element at a constant level in accordance with the detected signal from the optical sensor element. A laser driver circuit included in the optical pickup circuit incorporates a transistor and a high-frequency wave superposition circuit). The transistor produces a drive current in accordance with the control signal from the APC circuit, while the high-frequency wave superposition circuit superposes a high-frequency current on the drive current. The drive current superposed with the high-frequency current drives the laser emission element.
摘要:
An optical pick-up for selective playback and recording on a magneto-optically recording medium, in which light is projected from a source onto the medium. The light is provided with a direction of a polarization, and is either reflected from the recording medium or is transmitted through the medium. The reflected or transmitted light becomes deflected onto a predetermined one of several photodetectors, depending on the direction of polarization of the light. The intensity of the reflected light or the transmitted light is held constant to minimize noise components that result from the optical properties of different recorded media as well as from the light. By holding the light intensity constant, moreover, precise readjustment to each of the different recording media that may be used, is not necessary.
摘要:
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position a selected head among one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface among the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to generate a map of laser mode hop effects across the corresponding disk surface, for the selected head. The one or more processing devices are further configured to apply a laser mode hop mitigation in operating the selected head, based on the map of laser mode hop effects.
摘要:
A method and apparatus provide for determining a temperature at a junction of a laser diode when the laser diode is operated in a lasing state that facilitates heat-assisted magnetic recording, comparing the junction temperature and an injection current supplied during the lasing state to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current, and determining a likelihood of mode hopping occurring for the laser diode during the lasing state based on the comparison to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current.