摘要:
In a scanning optical system, a partial light blocking member having an annular light blocking part (for blocking off part of the incident laser beam entering the annular area around the central axis of the laser beam) is placed on an optical path between the laser light source and the polygon mirror. The scanning optical system including such a partial light blocking member is installed in a printer. By the effect of the partial light blocking member, the intensity of side lobes (several rings of light accompanying the main beam) is prevented from exceeding a threshold value even when optical surfaces of an imaging optical system of the scanning optical system have certain microscopic undulations, by which black stripes occurring in halftone printing can be eliminated.
摘要:
An objective lens for recording data to and/or reproducing data from first and second optical discs. The objective lens is provided with at least one surface including a plurality of annular zones divided by steps. The steps has functions of phase shifting a wavefront of light passing through the plurality of annular zones so that a beam spot formed at a converging point of an average wavefront of the wavefront phase shifted by the steps is used for the first and second optical discs. The plurality of annular zones of the at least one surface includes at least one annular zone structure which includes first and second annular zone groups, each of which has at least three steps for phase shifting the wavefront in a first direction, and a first return step which is a step formed at a boundary between the first and second annular zone groups. The first return step phase shifts the wavefront in a second direction opposite to the first direction. An absolute value |Δψ1| of a phase shifting amount of the first light beam given by the first return step satisfies a condition: 6π
摘要:
The invention provides a sample observation method capable of understanding the three-dimensional shape of a sample in a wider range. The observation method of the invention calculates heights (height differences) in the whole domain of an image, from plural sheets of images of different field-of-view angles, being in focus over the whole image, attained by means of the focal depth expanding function to thereby create a map (Z map) of the height information by each pixel, and displays a three-dimensional image as a bird's-eye view. The method also displays to superpose a Z map attained from image signals reflecting the surface structure on a Z map attained from image signals reflecting the composition information with different colors, which makes it possible to clearly understand the spatial distribution of a substance of unique composition inside the sample.
摘要:
A single element objective lens for an optical disc drive converges a laser beam, which is emitted by a laser source, on a data recording surface of an optical disc through a protective layer of the optical disc. One surface of the objective lens is divided into a central area including an optical axis thereof and a peripheral area surrounding the central area. The peripheral area is provided with a diffraction lens structure formed by a plurality of concentric annular zones including minute steps. The central area is a continuous surface having no stepped portions. The diffraction lens structure compensates for variation of converging characteristic of the objective lens due to a change of a temperature.
摘要:
A scanning drawing apparatus includes a light source, a beam separator for dividing the laser beam into a drawing beam and a monitor beam. A drawing optical path through which the drawing beam travels, and a monitor optical path through which the monitor beam travels are defined. The drawing beam passed through the drawing optical path and the monitor beam passed through the monitor optical path are combined by a beam combiner, and then deflected by a scanning deflector. The deflected beams pass through a scanning lens to form beam spots on an image surface and a monitor scale that is equivalent to the image surface, respectively. The monitor optical path has a different optical path length from the drawing optical path and/or effective diameters of optical elements in the monitor optical path is different from effective diameters of optical elements in the drawing optical path. A deviation of the beam spot of the drawing beam on the image surface due to an inclination or a shift of the light source is equal to a deviation of the beam spot of the monitor beam on the monitor scale in terms of directions and amounts.
摘要:
There is provided an apparatus as well as a method for polishing, observing, and additionally polishing a sample in a vacuum with a charged particle beam apparatus furnished with no other apparatus.The charged particle beam apparatus has a vacuum chamber equipped with a liquid bath containing an ion liquid and a supersonic vibration means. With the ion liquid kept in contact with a polishing target area of the sample, supersonic vibration is propagated in the ion liquid to polish the sample.Because the charged particle beam apparatus permits polishing, observation, and additional polishing of the sample in a vacuum without being furnished with any additional apparatus, throughput is improved and the effects of the atmosphere on the sample are prevented.
摘要:
A method for adjusting a tilt angle of an objective lens with respect to one of a multilayer optical disc having a plurality of recording layers and an optical axis of an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, wherein a use wavelength λ and a numerical aperture NA are defined by conditions: 390
摘要:
An objective optical system for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, at least one surface of the objective optical system being configured to be a phase shift surface having a phase shift structure, wherein: the phase shift surface has a first area contributing to converging first, second and third light beams onto recording surfaces of first, second and third optical discs, respectively; in the first area, the phase shift surface has at least two types of phase shift structures including a first phase shift structure having first steps and a second phase shift structure having second steps; the phase shift surface has a plurality of combinations of annular zones which satisfy a condition: 0.95
摘要:
An objective lens for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, at least one of optical surfaces of the objective lens comprising a diffraction surface having a diffraction structure defined by an optical path difference function, and wherein: the diffraction surface has a first region contributing to converging first and second light beams and having a diffraction structure configured such that diffraction orders at which the diffraction efficiencies are maximized for the first and second light beams are 1st order; the diffraction surface has a second region located outside the first region, and the second region is configured to contribute to converging the first light beam and not to contribute to convergence of the second light beam; and the objective lens satisfies a condition: 35
摘要:
There is provided an objective lens for an optical pick-up. The objective lens includes a first surface on a light source side, and a second surface on an optical disc side. The first surface has a convex shape. The objective lens is formed to be a single-element lens having a numerical aperture of 0.75 or more. In this configuration, the objective lens satisfies a condition: 0.95
摘要翻译:提供了用于光学拾取器的物镜。 物镜包括光源侧的第一表面和光盘侧的第二表面。 第一表面具有凸形。 物镜形成为数值孔径为0.75以上的单像素透镜。 在该结构中,物镜满足以下条件:0.95 <(n-1)·tan&Thetas; max <1.50(1)其中&thetas; max表示与第一表面相对于光轴的法线的最大角度 第一表面的有效直径,n表示物镜的折射率。