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PURPOSE: To correct the azimuth error of an image projected on the line sensor of a subtrack by installing a cylindrical lens on an optical path between and optical recording card and the line sensor and turning it. CONSTITUTION: The cylindrical lens 11 is disposed between an image forming lens 8 and the line sensor 10. Orthogonal coordinate systems (x), (y) and (z) are provided, and on the axis (z) the optical recording card 1, the image forming lens 8, the cylindrical lens 11 and the line sensor 10 are spaced. Then the recording face of the optical recording card, a section vertical against the optical axis of the image forming lens 8, the plane of the cylindrical lens 11 and the photodetecting face of the line sensor 10 are disposed to exist on planes (x), (y) and (z). The cylindrical lens 11 is fitted rotatably, has a drive coil on its end and can be turned by flowing a drive current to the drive coil. An azimuth error signal is amplified and supplied to the drive coil, whereby the cylindrical lens 11 is turned corresponding to the azimuth error, which can be corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)1986,JPO&Japio
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an objective lens capable of improving a manufacturing yield, and to provide an optical pickup device using the objective lens. SOLUTION: The optical pickup device 1 includes: the light source 3 that emits a light beam of a predetermined wavelength of about 405 nm; the objective lens 7 being a plastic lens provided with diffraction means of a zone diffractive structure suppressing generation of aberration to be caused by a temperature change, and has a numerical aperture of 0.82 or larger for gathering the light beam; and a collimator lens 6. An amount of change of third-order spherical aberration to be generated in the objective lens in response to a temperature change and an amount of change of the third-order spherical aberration to be generated in the objective lens in response to a wavelength change satisfy a predetermined relation, and when a length of an optical path increase by the diffractive structure is represented by a predetermined optical path difference function, coefficients of the second term and the tenth term of the optical path difference satisfy a predetermined relation, an amount of change of third-order axial spherical aberration and that of fifth-order axial spherical aberration in the objective lens in response to the wavelength change satisfy a predetermined relation, and the generation of the spherical aberration to be caused by the temperature change can be suppressed in the objective lens 7, and when the light beam emitted from the light source is changed in wavelength, the generation of the spherical aberration can be suppressed by moving the collimator lens 6. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composite optical element in which the mechanical reliability and stability is improved because any void is not required therein, and to provide a projection optical apparatus which is provided with the composite optical element, is excellent in the efficiency of using light of a light source and is compact and rigid. SOLUTION: The composite optical element 41 comprises a plurality of optical elements 42, 43 and 44, wherein at least one of the optical elements is formed of the element 42 that changes an optical path and has such a constitution that the other optical elements 43, 44 are joined to the incident side surface or/and the emission side surface of the element 42 that changes the optical path via low-refractive index material layers 56A, 56B. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect radial skew highly accurately by using an optical system for recording/playing back an optical recording medium to detect the tilt and amount of the optical recording medium and to reduce cost by reducing the number of components. SOLUTION: When tracking servo is performed along a wobble groove of an optical disk 102, an optical pickup 104 for recording/reproduction is used to calculate a first push-pull signal PP1 being the output difference between light receiving parts 30b and 30c for receiving light in the central area of a reflection luminous flux RPS; and a second push-pull signal PP2 being the output difference between light receiving parts 30a and 30b and light receiving parts 30c and 30d for receiving light in the central area and peripheral area of the reflection luminous flux RPS. A phase comparator circuit 49 compares the phases of the first and second push-pull signals PP1 and PP2 to generate a skew error signal S1 including the tilt direction and the amount of tilt of the optical disk 102 from the comparison result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a small-sized, light and inexpensive optical pickup with simple constitution and to record/reproduce correctly two kinds of optical disks with e.g. wavelengths and strength, etc., different from each other. SOLUTION: A light source 21 is provided with first, second light emitting elements 21a-21b arranged side by side at minute intervals on a semiconductor substrate and emitting light beams with the wavelengths different from each other, and a photodetector 25 is provided with light receiving parts respectively answering to the light beams from respective light emitting elements 21a-21b. Together with that, a light division means (phase diffraction grating) 22 diffracting only the light from one side light emitting element is provided between the light source 21 and an objective lens 24.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize the optical pickup device and to reduce the number of constituent parts and then to accurately write and read an information signal on an optical recording medium by making a light beam emitted from a semiconductor laser incident as a divergent light beam as it is upon a reflecting mirror. SOLUTION: A linearly polarized divergent light beam emitted from a semiconductor laser 1 will not give rise to a distribution of polarization directions in the light beam after being reflected by a reflecting surface of the reflecting mirror 4, provided with a reflected phase difference δP- S between a P- polarization component and an S-polarization component on this reflecting surface satisfies inequality (2n+1)π-(π/4)
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lengthen an optical path length of laser light and to reduce a noise level due to return laser light by arranging a planar light refraction member refracting laser light between a laser oscillator and an objective lens. SOLUTION: The laser light L is oscillated from a laser diode 1. Then, the laser light L is made incident on a glass plate 10 through a grating 4 and a beam splitter 5 to be made incident on the objective lens 3 after it is refracted. Then, the laser light L is converged on a recording layer of a magneto-optical disk 100 at a required spot by the objective lens 3 of a limited magnification, and the recording layer of the magneto-optical disk 100 is magnetically inverted, and information is recorded on the magneto-optical disk 100. In such a manner, a noise is suppressed by a sheet of inexpensive glass plate 10 without using an expensive collimate lens formed by combining plural lenses by this optical pickup.
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PURPOSE: To miniaturize a magneto-optical recording medium reproducing device by arranging a polarization rotation distribution converting means for changing the distribution of the polarization direction of the divergent and convergent light transmitted as to cancel the polarization rotation distribution by an optical means for the divergent and convergent light onto the optical path for the divergent and convergent light. CONSTITUTION: A phase plate 51 is arranged in the position behind a polarization beam splitter 4 on the optical path for the reflected return light L2 from a magneto-optical disk 7. The deflection angle θ of the optical axis K50 of the phase plate 51 is selected so that the rationally polarized light generated in the reflected return light L2 is cancelled by the transmission of the reflected return light L2 through a polarization beam splitter 4 within the plane formed by the optical axis of the incident reflected return light L2 and the polarization plane 4A of the polarization beam splitter 4. Then, an optical pickup 50 of an S separation type capable of making the reflected return light L2 free from the influence of the polarization rotation by the polarizing film 4A of the polarization beam splitter 4 incident on the photodetecting surface of a photodetector 10 and producing exact MO signals is obtd.
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PURPOSE: To provide a small and highly reliable laser coupler applicable to a magnetooptical disk and to provide an optical pickup using the same. CONSTITUTION: In a laser coupler 50, photodetectors 57, 58 are formed on a first semiconductor substrate 51 and a laser diode chip 53 is formed on a second semiconductor substrate 52 mounted on the first semiconductor substrate 51. The surface, on which the PBS film 59 of a half wavelength plate 55 as a polarizing splitter film is formed, is stuck to the first semiconductor substrate 51 and BS 54 composing a composite prism 56 together with the half wavelength plate 55 is mounted on the half wavelength plate 55. The BS 54 has an optical path branching surface for branching the optical path of a laser beam transmitted from the laser diode chip 53 and the laser beam entered into the composite prism 56 from the optical path branching surface is projected on the photodetectors 57, 58 from the surface on which the PBS film 59 of a half wavelength plate 55 is formed.
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PURPOSE:To enable a stage difference to be formed equivalently even if there are no stage differences after two photodetector elements which are placed sandwiching a light-emitting element are actually placed in parallel for a disk surface of a magnetooptical disk. CONSTITUTION:A photodetector 7 and a photodetector 8 are placed within a same plane which is in parallel to a disk surface 4. A convex lens 21 which scatters a scattering light L4 reflected by the disk surface 4 due to lighting from a light-emitting element 6 is placed at a light-reception path of the photodetector 8. When the light-emitting element 6 is placed within a focusing distance of the convex lens 21, scattering light which is scattered by the convex lens 21 is irradiated from an imaginary position of the light-emitting element 6, namely the photodetector 8 is moved away from the light-emitting element 6 by an equivaentl distance 1 {(1=a.a/(f-a): a; light-path length between the convex lens 21 and the light-emitting element 6, f; focusing distance of the convex lens 21}.