Abstract:
An optical pickup device comprising an object optical system for focusing a first light beam of a first wavelength lambda1 onto an information recording surface of a first optical disk of a recording density rho1, focusing a second light beam of a second wavelength lambda2 (lambda2>lambda1) onto an information recording surface of a second optical disk of a recording density rho2 (rho2 lambda2) onto an information recording surface of a third optical disk of a recording density rho3 (rho3
Abstract:
This invention is directed to an optical pickup apparatus which includes a first laser source which emits a first beam, a second laser source which emits a second beam having a polarization plane substantially perpendicular to a polarization plane of the first beam, a polarization diffraction element which selectively diffracts one of the first beam and the second beam in accordance with polarized states thereof, and an objective lens which records and/or reproduces information by focusing the first beam which has passed through the polarization diffraction element onto an information recording surface of a first optical information recording medium, and records and/or reproduces information by focusing the second beam which has passed through the polarization diffraction element onto an information recording surface of a second optical information recording medium.
Abstract:
This invention is directed to an optical pickup apparatus which includes a first laser source which emits a first beam, a second laser source which emits a second beam having a polarization plane substantially perpendicular to a polarization plane of the first beam, a polarization diffraction element which selectively diffracts one of the first beam and the second beam in accordance with polarized states thereof, and an objective lens which records and/or reproduces information by focusing the first beam which has passed through the polarization diffraction element onto an information recording surface of a first optical information recording medium, and records and/or reproduces information by focusing the second beam which has passed through the polarization diffraction element onto an information recording surface of a second optical information recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical pick-up apparatus comprising: a first light source emitting a first light flux; a second light source emitting a second light flux; a third light source emitting a third light flux; and an optical element, wherein the optical element has a first optical surface having a first area including an optical axis of the optical element, and a second area positioned outside the first area, the second area includes a light-shielding structure being capable of substantially shielding the third light flux and being capable of transmitting the first light flux and the second light flux.
Abstract:
A diffractive optical element, comprises a first diffractive structure to generate n 11 -th order diffracted ray when a first light flux having lambda1 (nm) of a wavelength comes in and to generate n 21 -th order diffracted ray (n 11 .>=n 21 ) when a second light flux having lambda2 (nm) (lambda2>lambda1) comes in; and a second diffractive structure to generate n 12 -th order diffracted ray when the first light flux comes in and to generate n 22 -th order diffracted ray (n 12 .>=n 22 ) when the second light comes in. The diffractive optical element satisfies the following formula: deltaphi A12 <>deltaphi B12 , where deltaphi A12 ={n 11 .lambda 1 /(N 11 -1)}/{n 21 .lambda 2 /(N 21 -1)}, and deltaphi B12 ={n 12 .lambda 1 /(N 12 -1)}/{n 22 .lambda 2 /(N 22 -1)}, wherein N 11 , N 21 are refractive index of the first diffractive structure respectively for lambda 1 and lambda 2 , and N 12 , N 22 are refractive index of the second diffractive structure respectively for lambda 1 and lambda 2 .
Abstract:
An optical pickup device comprises a light source to emit a light flux having wavelength »; an objective lens including at least two plastic lenses of a first plastic lens having positive refractive power and a second plastic lens having positive refractive power, wherein the first plastic lens and the second plastic lens are arranged in this order from the light source side; and an actuator to drive the objective lens; wherein the objective lens satisfies the following expression (1-1): - 0.0004
Abstract:
An aberration compensating optical element includes: a diffractive structure having a plurality of ring-shaped zone steps formed into substantially concentric circles on at least one surface of the aberration compensating optical element; wherein the aberration compensating optical element is adapted for being disposed on an optical path between a light source for emitting a light having a wavelength of not more than 550nm, and an objective lens made of a material having an Abbe constant of not more than 95.0 at a d-line; and wherein the following inequality is satisfied: P »1