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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device that can record and/or reproduce information appropriately to three types of different optical disks and can be miniaturized, and to provided a drive device in an optical disk, an objective lens system used for the drive device, and a wavelength selection element. SOLUTION: In the wavelength selection element for limiting an opening corresponding to the NA of a CD used for the optical pickup device compatible with a high-density optical disk, a DVD, and a CD, a phase structure for correcting spherical aberration caused by the difference in a protective layer thickness is formed at a first region including an optical axis, and a light-shielding structure for limiting the opening corresponding to the NA of the CD is formed outside the first region, thus recording and/or reproducing information appropriately to different types of optical disks. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup apparatus which is compact but can perform the good recording and/or reproducing of information to an optical information recording medium being a different kind, and an objective optical element used for it. SOLUTION: Luminous fluxes of respective wavelengths λ1, λ2 and λ3 emitted from a purple-blue semiconductor laser LD1, a red semiconductor laser EP1, further, an ultraviolet semiconductor laser EP2 are made incident on a single lens objective optical element OBj as parallel luminous fluxes, spherical aberration is corrected low only for a non-spherical optical surface, but spherical aberration is corrected appropriately by passing through optical path difference grant structure, the recording and/or reproducing of information can be performed appropriately to respective recording media having thicknesses of protection layers t1, t2 and t3. Then, the luminous flux made incident on an objective lens from each light source satisfies respectively the prescribed magnification conditions, also the objective lens has ring band structure composed of at least two regions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device, wherein recording/reproduction of information can be surely performed to an optical information recording medium and deterioration of an element is reduced, even if irradiation with light is performed over a long time, by making the luminous flux incident in the objective lens to be in a state with the light intensity distribution of the luminous flux emitted from a light source being optimized. SOLUTION: The optical pickup apparatus, performing reproduction and recording of information to the optical information recording medium, has a light intensity distribution converter for converting the luminous flux emitted from the light source and having light intensity distribution that is substantially Gaussian distribution into a luminous flux, having a desired light intensity distribution where the light intensity of emitted light passing through the outermost peripheral part of an effective diameter is 45 to 95% of the light intensity of emitted light, passing through an optical axis position and an objective optical element condensing the luminous flux emitted from the light intensity distribution converter on an information recording surface of the optical information recording medium. The light intensity distribution converter is comprises resin, containing a polymer having an alicyclic structure. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a tracking characteristic for, specially, a medium whose protection substrate is thick when an optical pickup device is applied to a plurality of information recording media by using a plurality of wavelengths. SOLUTION: A divergence angle varying element whose two lenses are individually movable along an optical axis is arranged in an optical path and a coma aberration generated when an objective optical element is moved by a tracking means is eliminated by moving one lens to improve the tracking characteristics while a spherical aberration is corrected generated depending upon a disk thickness is corrected by moving the other lens. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an objective optical element capable of dealing with an optical media having different substrate thicknesses by using a plurality of wavelengths and also capable of dealing with optical media of not only a single layer but also of a multilayer. SOLUTION: The optical element is divided into a plurality of areas. As for a DVD, the absolute value of a spherical aberration SA of the optical element is increased in proportion to separation from an optical axis, and different codes are assigned for every adjacent area. On the other hand, the absolute value of the aberration is made to be equal to or smaller than a specified value by providing an optical path difference imparting structure to an aperture area required for forming an conversion spot on a CD. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device capable of dealing with different types of optical recording media. SOLUTION: A first beam splitter BS1 is arranged between a beam shaping element BSL and a collimator lens CL which is an emission angle conversion element, the emission light alone of a first semiconductor laser LD1 which is a blue-violet semiconductor laser is made incident on the beam shaping element BSL to perform beam shaping, and then it is passed through the collimator lens CL to change an emission angle. On the other hand, the light of a second semiconductor laser LD2 which is a red semiconductor laser is reflected by a first beam splitter BS1, and made incident on the collimator lens CL without being passed through the beam shaping element BSL to change an emission angle. That is, as the number of collimator lenses CL is one, and the light alone of the first semiconductor laser LD1 is subjected to beam shaping, high light using efficiency is obtained, and a compact optical pickup device is obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an objective lens capable of more raising the detection accuracy of detection system of an optical pickup device adopting the objective lens which is constituted of; a 1st region where diffraction structure is formed including an optical axis; a 2nd region where a refraction surface of the outer side of the 1st region is formed; and a 3rd region where diffraction structure of the outer side of the 2nd region is formed. SOLUTION: The objective lens is configured so that 1st and 2nd luminous fluxes which pass the 1st region contribute to the formation of 1st and 2nd condensed spots respectively and the 1st and 2nd luminous fluxes which pass the 2nd region do not contribute to the formation of the 1st and 2nd condensed spots respectively, the 1st luminous flux which passes the 3rd region contributes to the formation of the 1st condensed spot and the 2nd luminous flux which passes the 3rd region does not contribute to the formation of the 2nd condensed spot. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser device and an optical pickup device using the same wherein alignment accuracy can easily be secured and enhanced without making an assembling step complicated. SOLUTION: An optical element 1 is integrally formed in a semiconductor device LD, and a positional relationship between an abutment part 1d and an optical function part 1a can be maintained with good accuracy. Only by abutting the abutment 1d of such the optical element 1 to a base 3, it is possible to easily perform positioning in an optical axis direction between the emission point of a semiconductor laser element 6 and a convex lens 1a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI