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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid immersion lens with which optical recording and reproducing by a stable near field are possible without allowing dust to stick to a condensing section of the solid immersion lens, an optical pickup device, and optical recording and reproducing device. SOLUTION: The solid immersion lens comprises an upper lens structure and a lower lens structure, in which the upper lens structure has a convex portion having the condensing section and is provided with a skirt portion in this convex portion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup suited to a near-field optical recording/reproducing system, and to provide an optical recording/reproducing device. SOLUTION: This optical pickup device is provided with an objective lens constituted by including a solid immersion lens (SIL) and having a numerical aperture of 1 or more. Luminous flux of a predetermined polarized light state is radiated from a light source through the objective lens to an optical recording medium, the component of a polarized light state orthogonal to the polarization state of a reflected light when the distance between the surface of the optical recording medium and the planar part of the SIL is 0 is detected from the reflected light, and a signal is obtained corresponding to the distance between the surface of the optical recording medium and the planar part of the SIL. For this purpose, the device is provided with: a beam splitter 102 for reflecting both of P and S polarized light components of the light reflected on the optical recording medium; a separating means 110 for separating the P and S polarized light components reflected by the beam splitter; and photodetecting means 120 for individually detecting the P and S polarized light components separated by the separating means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a information services utilization support system favorable in improving the convenience when a user receives various information services on a network, and to provide a server and programs. SOLUTION: The support system 100 for using information services has an information terminal 10 and a server 20. The data collecting means 12 of the information terminal 10 collects a network environment data, user created data, and user knowledge data, to send to the server 20. Various kinds of data are registered and stored in the personal database section 24 of the server 20 by the control of a database management section 22. The data mining section 26 analyzes the various kinds of data registered in the personal database section 24 and reflects the analysis results in the personal database section 24. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a high density recording by keeping the distance (gap) between the end face of an SIL(solid immersion lens) and an optical disk constant regardless of the rotation speed of the optical disk. SOLUTION: Gap control is performed first by inputting ramp voltage to a piezo element 38 which holds a nonlinear lens 35 and the SIL 36. Thus, the piezo element 38 is extended, the SIL 36 approaches a disk 37. Next, the amount of returning light due to total reflection and a threshold TH are compared. In this case, when the amount of returning light in total reflection is larger than the threshold TH, it is determined as the near-field state is not yet realized, the ramp voltage is continuously inputted to the piezo element 38. On the other hand, when the returning light in total reflection becomes smaller than the threshold TH, it is determined that the near-field state is realized, the input of the ramp voltage is interrupted, the input voltage is held in a step 3. Next, the gap control with interference light is started and the input voltage is finely controlled according to an interference light amount.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a gap error signal for the reproduction signal of a disk and gap control on the basis of one return light beam from an optical recording medium obtained using near field light. SOLUTION: A signal detector 15 receives a totally reflected return light beam from an SIL 14 through a beam splitter 12 and outputs a detection signal according to a light-receiving level. A band separation filter 16 separates and outputs the detection signal from the signal detector 15 for each predetermined frequency band. A reproduction signal being information to be reproduced from an optical disk 10, a gap error signal to be used for gap control and a tracking error signal to be used for the tracking servo control of an optical head, are extracted by a band separation by the band separation filter 16. Since the reproduction signal from the optical disk 10 is a high frequency signal as compared with the gap error signal, one detection signal from the signal detector 15 is separated by the band separation filter 16 to obtain two signals.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reproduce information with an optical information recording medium having no reflection film. SOLUTION: An optical disk 107 has a transparent projecting and recessing group (pit pattern) 112A as an information recording layer on the surface of a transparent base plate 112, and a protective film 106 is provided on the pit pattern 112A. It means that a conventional reflection layer is omitted. In a device for reproducing information, an SIL108 is arranged adjacent to the optical disk 107, the projecting and recessing group 112A is detected by using a near- field light. The manufacturing process is simplified, the manufacturing cost is saved, and the manufacturing tact time is shortened by eliminating the reflection layer from the optical disk 107. Further, the reflection layer is not destroyed and a part of the reflection layer is not stuck on the side of the information reproducer because the optical disk 107 dispenses with the reflection layer, and a stable reproducing operation is assured.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain a constant distance between a lens end face (optical means) and a recording medium without depending upon the change in the intensity of irradiation light (laser power) in recording or reproducing of signals by utilizing proximity field light. SOLUTION: The signal recording device has an optical head 14 which is located in proximity to a glass original disk 200 and condenses the proximity field light by a laser beam to the glass original disk 200, an AGC circuit 30 which corrects the quantity of the return light from the optical head 14 according to the intensity of the laser beam emitted from a laser element 1 to record signals to the glass original disk 200 and a focusing controller 20 which controls the distance between the optical head 14 and the glass original disk 200 to be constant according to the quantity S3 of the return light corrected by the AGC circuit 30.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly correct displacement of an information recording position caused by disk eccentricity, when first light for recording information and second light for controlling the information recording position are applied via a common objective lens, focus servo control of the objective lens is performed to focus the second light on a reflection film formed on an optical disk recording medium, an information recording position (focus position) by the first light is set (adjusted) by changing collimation of the first light made incident on the objective lens, and the tracking servo control of the objective lens is performed so that the focus position of a second laser beam is along a position guide formed on the reflection film (reference surface) of the optical disk recording medium. SOLUTION: An estimated eccentricity is acquired for each rotational angle in a circumference of a disk 1, and displacement of an information recording position in the tracking direction of the first light is corrected based on information on the acquired estimated eccentricity. Thus, track pitch is reduced to achieve large recording capacity. Detaching of the disk is permitted, thereby improving convenience. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disk cartridge allowing recording and reproduction to a thin plate-like disk using near-field light and suppressing adhesion of dust on a disk surface. SOLUTION: The disk cartridge includes the thin plate-like disk 2 in which at least either recording or reproduction is performed by a near-field optical system 30 and a cartridge 1 accommodating the thin plate-like disk 2. The cartridge 1 includes an opening 3 allowing the movement of the near-field optical system 30 at a side facing a recording/reproducing surface 2r of the thin plate-like disk 2, a shutter 4 allowing opening and closing of the opening 3, and an air hole 5 at a side opposite to the side where the shutter 4 is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a gap between an optical recording medium and a condensing optical system with a simpler device configuration as compared to when using a servo repeatedly. SOLUTION: The quantity of total-reflection return light from an optical recording medium is detected by a photodetector, and a push-pull signal Tpp of a traveling direction relative to the optical recording medium is feed-forwarded to a gap error signal obtained based on the detected signal to generate a gap servo signal GES. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT