Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus for reading and writing information from and to optical data media in different formats and a method thereof are provided. The optical pickup apparatus comprises a twin laser diode (Twin LD), a diffraction element for dividing a laser beam incident on a data medium into five beams, and an optical detector for focusing a laser beam reflected from the data medium to detect an information signal and signals for carrying out servo controls. The divided beams are focused on a predetermined location in based on a data medium format, and the beam reflected from the data medium is received on and detected from the corresponding photodiodes of the optical detector so that a focus error signal and a tracking error signal are generated.
Abstract:
A method of scanning multiple tracks uses an optical pickup to simultaneously emit a plurality of beams on a plurality of tracks on a disk, and satisfies the equations: N.sub.j =(N.sub.b -1)N.sub.g -1 and N.sub.r =N.sub.b N.sub.g -1. Here, N.sub.j represents the number of jumped tracks, N.sub.b represents the number of light beams, N.sub.g represents the interval between the light beams, and N.sub.r represents the number of reproduced tracks during a reproduction period.