摘要:
It is intended to provide an optical disk apparatus which detects a light amount greater than zero even when used in conjunction with an optical disk substrate having a large birefringence, so that it is possible to properly read a signal without errors and properly perform optical disk controls. The optical disk apparatus includes: a light source for emitting light; an objective lens for converging the light onto a signal surface of an optical disk; a polarized beam diffraction element for diffracting the light reflected from the optical disk; a photodetector for detecting the light diffracted from the polarized beam diffraction element; and a wavelength plate disposed between the optical disk and the polarized beam diffraction element. The wavelength plate has a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions including first and second regions, the first and second regions differing in birefringent phase difference and/or optic axes from each other, and the plurality of birefringent regions including the first and second regions cause the light to have different polarization states.
摘要:
There is provided, in an optical disk apparatus which is capable of recording data to or reading data from a plurality of types of optical disks, a wavelength plate and an optical pickup which can reduce deterioration in signal quality even in the presence of a large birefringence of the substrate of an optical disk. A wavelength plate 6 according to the present invention is a wavelength plate to be placed in an optical path through which rays of a plurality of wavelengths travel back and forth, the plurality of wavelengths including a ray having a wavelength λ. The wavelength plate includes a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions, the birefringent regions including first regions D1 and second regions D2 having different optic axis directions from each other. The relationship 240°≦Δ1≦300° is true, where Δ1 is a retardation of the wavelength plate 6 for the ray of the wavelength λ.
摘要:
There is provided, in an optical disk apparatus which is capable of recording data to or reading data from a plurality of types of optical disks, a wavelength plate and an optical pickup which can reduce deterioration in signal quality even in the presence of a large birefringence of the substrate of an optical disk. A wavelength plate 6 according to the present invention is a wavelength plate to be placed in an optical path through which rays of a plurality of wavelengths travel back and forth, the plurality of wavelengths including a ray having a wavelength λ. The wavelength plate includes a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions, the birefringent regions including first regions D1 and second regions D2 having different optic axis directions from each other. The relationship 240°≦Δ1≦300° is true, where Δ1 is a retardation of the wavelength plate 6 for the ray of the wavelength λ.
摘要:
It is intended to provide an optical disk apparatus which detects a light amount greater than zero even when used in conjunction with an optical disk substrate having a large birefringence, so that it is possible to properly read a signal without errors and properly perform optical disk controls. The optical disk apparatus includes: a light source for emitting light; an objective lens for converging the light onto a signal surface of an optical disk; a polarized beam diffraction element for diffracting the light reflected from the optical disk; a photodetector for detecting the light diffracted from the polarized beam diffraction element; and a wavelength plate disposed between the optical disk and the polarized beam diffraction element. The wavelength plate has a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions including first and second regions, the first and second regions differing in birefringent phase difference and/or optic axes from each other, and the plurality of birefringent regions including the first and second regions cause the light to have different polarization states.
摘要:
It is intended to provide an optical disk apparatus which detects a light amount greater than zero even when used in conjunction with an optical disk substrate having a large birefringence, so that it is possible to properly read a signal without errors and properly perform optical disk controls. The optical disk apparatus includes: a light source for emitting light; an objective lens for converging the light onto a signal surface of an optical disk; a polarized beam diffraction element for diffracting the light reflected from the optical disk; a photodetector for detecting the light diffracted from the polarized beam diffraction element; and a wavelength plate disposed between the optical disk and the polarized beam diffraction element. The wavelength plate has a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions including first and second regions, the first and second regions differing in birefringent phase difference and/or optic axes from each other, and the plurality of birefringent regions including the first and second regions cause the light to have different polarization states.
摘要:
In one embodiment, an optical pickup includes an optical system which forms multiple light beams based on the light emitted from a light source and which converges a write beam and a read beam, thereby forming a main spot and a sub-spot, respectively, on an optical storage medium. This optical system converges the write and read beams onto the optical storage medium so that the main spot moves through the same region on the optical storage medium ahead of the sub-spot. The optical pickup further includes a detector for sensing the write and read beams reflected from the storage medium. The detector includes a first photodiode 10 that receives the reflected light from the main spot 50R on the storage medium and a second photodiode 11 that receives a portion of the reflected light from the sub-spot 51R.
摘要:
When performing recording/reproduction of information for a given recording layer of an optical disc having three recording layers, influences of reflected light from other recording layers are reduced or removed, thus making it possible to obtain a more stable RF signal or focus error signal.An optical pickup device includes a light source, a collimator lens, an objective lens, a photodetector, and a light shielding member. Among the recording layers of the optical disc, a first layer and a second layer adjoining each other are disposed in the order of the first layer and second layer from near the objective lens. The light shielding member is disposed at a position satisfying the condition d>d1 to block a part of reflected light from the second layer when light is converged on the first layer, where d is an optical path length from the photodetector to the light shielding member; and d1 is a distance from the photodetector to a position at which reflected light from the second layer becomes focused between the collimator lens and the photodetector.
摘要:
In one embodiment of the present invention, an optical pickup for writing and reading data on an optical storage medium comprises a diffractive element for diffracting a light beam to split it into multiple light beams. The diffracted light beams includes a zero-order diffracted light beam for writing data on a track of the land or the groove of the optical storage medium and non-zero-order diffracted light beams for reading the data from the track. The diffractive element has first and second diffraction gratings that have mutually different grating vector directions and pitches. The first diffraction grating forms light beam spots on the same track by the non-zero-order and zero-order diffracted light beams. The second diffraction grating forms a light beam spot to extend to both sides of said track, or forms a light beam spot on one side of said track, by the non-zero-order diffracted light beams.
摘要:
When performing recording/reproduction of information for a given recording layer of an optical disc having three recording layers, influences of reflected light from other recording layers are reduced or removed, thus making it possible to obtain a more stable RF signal or focus error signal.An optical pickup device includes a light source, a collimator lens, an objective lens, a photodetector, and a light shielding member. Among the recording layers of the optical disc, a first layer and a second layer adjoining each other are disposed in the order of the first layer and second layer from near the objective lens. The light shielding member is disposed at a position satisfying the condition d>d1 to block a part of reflected light from the second layer when light is converged on the first layer, where d is an optical path length from the photodetector to the light shielding member; and d1 is a distance from the photodetector to a position at which reflected light from the second layer becomes focused between the collimator lens and the photodetector.
摘要:
According to the present invention, a tracking error signal can be obtained with good stability by the three-beam differential push-pull method even if the track guide groove direction of the optical disc changes as viewed from the objective lens.An optical pickup 30 according to the present invention includes: a grating element 110 for splitting light emitted from a light source 121 into multiple light beams including zero-order, −first-order and +first-order diffracted light beams; an objective lens 118 for condensing the zero-order and ±first-order diffracted light beams, which have come from the grating element 110, onto an optical disc; and a photosensor 101 with multiple photodetectors for receiving respectively the three diffracted light beams reflected from the optical disc. The grating element 110 is designed so that when measured perpendicularly to tracks on the disc, sub-light beam spots formed on the disc by the ±first-order diffracted light beams are larger than a main light beam spot formed on the disc by the zero-order diffracted light beam.