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:
An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus has a diffractive optical surface. A first light flux having a first wavelength of »1 is converged as a first number diffraction order diffracted-ray other than the zero-th order diffracted-ray onto an information recording plane of the first optical information recording medium having a thinner protective substrate t1 by the diffractive optical surface and a second light flux having a second wavelength of »2 (»1
Abstract:
An objective optical element for use in an optical pickup apparatus, includes an objective lens to converge the light flux emitted from the first and second light sources; and an optical functional surface including a common region and an exclusive region. When a first optical information medium is used, a sine condition unsatisfied-amount whose value is maximum exists on the common region. The following formula is satisfied: 0.5
Abstract:
The present invention has a beam shaping element for converting the light flux from the light source 11 into a light flux whose emitting angle is almost equal and for projecting it, and a generation amount of the astigmatism generated by the temperature change is suppressed by a linear expansion of the beam shaping element.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beam shaping element made of plastic which can emits a divergent luminous flux whose cross-sectional shape is approximately circular while suppressing the occurrence of an astigmatic difference with change of environmental temperature, and also can maintain highly accurate optical characteristics for many hours, and a light source device, and an optical pickup device. SOLUTION: The beam shaping element of this invention is a single-ball optical element which converts a luminous flux which is emitted from a light source, and has different angles of radiation in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction into a luminous flux whose cross-sectional shape is roughly circular, and emits the luminous flux, and the beam shaping element is characterized in that the element is constituted of resin containing a polymer which has fatty ring type structure, and also the linear expansion coefficient α n of the element fulfills a conditional expression: 5.0×10 -5 n -5 and the element suppresses the amount of the occurrence of the astigmatic difference with change of the environmental temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
The present invention has a beam shaping element for converting the light flux from the light source 11 into a light flux whose emitting angle is almost equal and for projecting it, and a generation amount of the astigmatism generated by the temperature change is suppressed by a linear expansion of the beam shaping element.
Abstract:
An optical pickup device for reproducing and recording information from and in an optical information recording medium is disclosed which comprises a light source for emitting a light flux having wavelengths of 200-700 nm and a light intensity distribution that is generally a Gaussian distribution, a light intensity distribution converting device for changing the light flux incoming from the light source into one having a desired light intensity distribution wherein the intensity of the outgoing light passing through the outermost portion of the effective diameter is within 45-95% of the intensity of the outgoing light passing through the light axis portion, and an objective optical device for focusing the light flux coming out of the light intensity distribution converting device on the information recording surface of the optical information recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical pickup device comprising a first light source for outputting a first light beam, a second light source for outputting a second light beam, a third light source for outputting a third light beam, and an objective optical unit having an annular-structure first light path difference imparting structure and an annular-structure second light path difference imparting structure, wherein the magnifications of the objective optical unit when the first, second and third beams are incident to the objective optical unit are almost the same, the first light path difference imparting structure imparts a specified light path difference to the first light beam, and changes the spherical aberrations of all the first light beam, second light beam and third light beam to one of under and over directions, the second light path difference imparting structure imparts a specified light path difference to the first light beam, and changes the spherical aberration of only the second light beam out of the first light beam, second light beam and third light beam to the other direction different from the one of under and over directions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device capable of appropriately performing shaping of a cross-sectional shape of each light flux and conversion of intensity distribution even if a light source unit is used in which a plurality of light emitting points are adjacently provided. SOLUTION: The optical pickup unit 10 is configured with a light source unit 20 in which a plurality of light emitting points emitting lights in different wavelengths are adjacently provided, a beam shaping element 40 for shaping the light flux to have a divergence angle different from that at the incidence, a coupling element 12, and an objective optical element 15 for converging the emitted light flux from the coupling element on a recording face of an optical information recording medium for forming a condensing spot. The distance from each light emitting point to a surface of a protection layer for protecting the recording surface is stabilized irrespective of kinds of the optical information recording medium, and the condensing spot is formed by using a light flux of a long wavelength for the optical information recording medium with a thick protection layer while using a light flux of a short wavelength for the optical information recording medium with a thin protection layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup apparatus composed of a simple optical system in which a polarization beam splitter or the like is omitted. SOLUTION: To suppress the occurrence of spherical aberration when a converged spot is formed, it is enough to lower a collimate function by making the refractive index of a coupling lens 5 small such that the longer the length is in the wavelength of a laser beam, and the heavier the thickness is in a protecting substrate, the reduction of the reflective index becomes larger. Thereby, the radiated luminous flux of the laser beam is made incident on an objective lens 1, consequently spherical aberration acts in an under state. Consequently, the aberration is canceled. On the other hand, it is enough to make the refractive index of the coupling lens 5 large such that the shorter the length is in the laser beam, and the smaller the thickness is in the protecting substrate, the enlargement of the refractive index becomes large. That is, a material of which the refractive index is large is selected for a laser beam L1 having a short wavelength, and a material of which the refractive index is small is selected for a laser beam L2 having long a wavelength as the coupling lens 5. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI