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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lens which can be formed accurately in shape and which can be manufactured efficiently at a low cost, as well as its production method and an optical pickup. SOLUTION: The device is provided with a geometrical optical part 20 for converging the light made incident from an incident plane 20a, and a diffraction optical part 21 which is formed on the incident plane 20a and the exiting plane of the geometrical optical part 20 and which is for further converging the light from the geometrical optical part 20; the diffraction optical part 21 is constituted of a lens 14 which is formed by joining resin to the incident plane 20a and the exiting plane 20b of the geometrical optical part 20.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a diffraction element 20 capable of showing satisfactory characteristics. SOLUTION: A cover layer 20D of the diffraction element 20 is constituted of a cover lower layer 20Du made of a second UV cured resin 100B and joined to a diffraction pattern PTc for a CD and a cover upper layer 20Do made of a third UV cured resin 100C and joined to the cover lower layer 20Du. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a diffraction element which has excellent characteristics. SOLUTION: The diffraction element 20 is built by forming the surface of the cover layer 20D to cancel the wavefront aberrations generated at the first air boundary IFa. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for patterning optical parts which is capable subjecting the optical parts to patterning with high accuracy even if a relatively inexpensive EB exposure device is used. SOLUTION: The drawing of a test pattern is carried out (ST1) and the shape of this test pattern is measured in this method for correcting a drawing shape distortion (ST2). The correction function to the drawing shape distortion arising in the test pattern is derived (ST4) in accordance with the result of the measurement and a drawing correction value is calculated in accordance with the correction function. The drawing data to which the drawing correction value is given are then formed (ST6). The required drawing shape accuracy can be obtained by the method even if the inexpensive EB exposure device is used.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for film formation of a patterned resist film and capable of forming a thin film pattern with a size from milli-meter order to a sub-milli-meter order at a necessary and sufficient precision, to provide a method for formation of a thin film pattern, and to provide an optical component by employing the apparatus and the method. SOLUTION: By employing a resist film lithography apparatus 1 comprising a rotating and holding mechanism 11 capable of chucking and rotating an axial center of a holder 13 for holding disk-like glass 12 with about 1 μm concentricity around a rotation axis 19 with about 1 μm concentricity and a lithography mechanism 21 capable of moving a pen provided with a pen lead 22p of 0.1 mm diameter in the x-axis direction, the y-axis direction, and the z-axis direction within 1 μm precision, a patterned resist film is drawn with ±5 μm precision directly on the disk-like glass 12 and then an aluminum thin film is formed on the entire surface and after that the resist film is removed together with the thin film thereon to leave an aluminum thin film with a reverse pattern to that of the resist film.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical element formed with an antireflection film having high durability. SOLUTION: The antireflection film 3 of the optical element 1 formed with the antireflection film 3 of a single layer for preventing the reflection of light on the front surface of a substrate 2 consisting of glass is formed so as to attain nd=(2m+1)λ/4 (m is a natural number) when the film thickness of the antireflection film 3 is defined as (d), the refractive index of the antireflection film 3 as (n) and the wavelength of the incident light on the antireflection film 3 as λ. The optical element 1 having the high durability may be provided by setting the film thickness of the antireflection film 3 at nd=(2m+1)4/λ and placing the antireflection film 3 under conditions of a constant humidity and high temp.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the recording and reproducing of an information signal satisfactory with respect to plural kinds of optical recording mediums whose thicknesses of transparent substrates are different by changing the numerical aperture of an objective lens as to the luminous flux of one wavelength and the luminous flux of other wavelength with a wavelength selective film. SOLUTION: The aperture for the luminous flux B1 of a first wavelength is the whole surface of a surface part and the luminous flux B1 is converged on the signal recording surface of a first optical disk 101a. The aperture for the luminous flux B2 of a second wavelength is an area where an antireflection film 2 is formed and where is in the surface part and the luminous flux B2 is converged on the signal recording surface of a second optical disk 101b. Since the numerical aperture is changed according to the difference of wavelengths by changing wavelengths of incident luminous fluxes in an objective lens 1, an optimum condition for recording and reproducing the information signal is realized with respect to the plural kinds of optical recording mediums whose thicknesses of transparent substrates are different.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare a diffraction element having a fine and accurate diffraction pattern. SOLUTION: When a diffraction pattern layer 20D wherein the diffraction pattern PTc in a step shape of a plurality of steps is formed is provided by pressurizing a metal mold to a photosetting resin 100A applied on one surface of a base member 20C and irradiating the photosetting resin with UV to cure the resin, each diffraction pattern layer 20D is formed into a plurality of layers for every step of a part of the diffraction patterns. Thereby, the depth of the shape of the metal mold is reduced to enhance accuracy thereof and the diffraction element 20 having satisfactory shape accuracy and high diffraction efficiency is obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve an optical pickup and optical disk drive which can exhibit successful property to a plurality of kinds of optical disks. SOLUTION: An abberation generated by oblique incidence to an objective lens unit 9 is compensated by shifting and arranging a first diffraction pattern PTd from an optical axis by having positioned the first diffraction pattern PTd which makes an optical beam Ld of a first wavelength which carries out oblique incidence to the objective lens unit 9 to an optical axis of the object lens unit 9, so that the abberation of the optical beam Ld of the first wavelength which is diffracted by the first diffraction pattern PTd and condensed with an objective lens 21 becomes minimum. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve an optical pickup and an optical disk drive which can present successful property to a plurality of kinds of optical disks. SOLUTION: A stray light reflected with the diffraction element 20 is diverted from the optical axis CL by providing a diffraction component 20 with a net angle θ to an optical axis CL and an adverse effect by the stray light are prevented, and an abberation in optical beams of first and second wavelengths generated by the inclined diffraction element 20 are compensated by shifting and arranging the first diffraction pattern PTc and the second diffraction pattern PTd from the optical axis CL. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT