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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To hold an excellent recording and reproducing characteristic by emitting a beam spot to a recording track in an optimum shape in an optical pickup device and an optical recording and reproducing device applicable to to an optical recording medium including an optical recording medium of a BD (Blu-ray Disc) type configuration. SOLUTION: In this optical pickup device, wherein a semiconductor laser is provided as a light source and when a direction parallel to its active layer is disposed almost parallel to the board face of an optical recording medium, light rays emitted from the semiconductor laser are reflected by a reflecting surface in a direction almost perpendicular to the board face of the optical recording medium and light of the wavelength being at least equal to or greater than 400 and equal to or smaller than 415 nm is subsequently emitted to the optical recording medium through an objective lens to perform recording and/or reproduction, an angle θ formed between the direction of the light rays made incident on the reflecting surface and the extension direction of a recording track of the optical recording medium is defined as 45 ≤θ COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set optical magnification optimum for each wavelength by an optical pickup in which an optical system consisting of a collimator lens and an objective lens commonly passing a laser beam of multi-wavelength is housed. SOLUTION: A bypass optical path consisting of a beam splitter for bypassing a magnification conversion element 4, a pair of mirrors, and a beam splitter is provided at an optical path having a three wavelengths collimator lens, the magnification conversion element, and a three wavelengths correspondence objective lens. When a laser beam has a wavelength of 407 nm, the laser beam is made to pass through the optical path in which the magnification conversion element is present and magnification of the optical path is made 12 times, and when the laser beam has a wavelength of 650 nm, the laser beam is made to pass through the bypass circuit and magnification of the optical path is made 5 times. Thereby, magnification being optimum for each wavelength is freely set by the optical pickup in which the optical system consisting of the collimator lens and the objective lens commonly passing the laser beam of multi-wavelength is housed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make common structure of an optical pickup performing recording or reproducing of information for a plurality of kinds of optical information recording media having different kinds of formats and a recording and/or reproducing device using the same and downsize them, and to correct spherical aberration. SOLUTION: The optical pickup is provided with a light source part 41 having a first emitting part emitting a light beam of a first wavelength, a second emitting part emitting a light beam of a second wavelength, a third emitting part emitting a third light beam, a collimator lens 33 having different focal lengths depending on the first to the third wavelength, and an objective lens 32 converging the light beam emitted from the first to the third emitting parts on the information recording plane of an optical disk 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a downsizing and cost reduction and to surely detect a tracking error signal with an optical head which is used for reproducing (or recording and reproducing) a DVD and is commonly used recording and reproducing a CD-R/RW. SOLUTION: An element formed by semiconductor lasers 12 of a wavelength 650 nm for the DVD and photodetecting section 13 commonly used for the DVD and the CD-R/RW on a common substrate and housing these within one package is disposed as an integrated element 11. The outside of the integrated element 11 is provided with a semiconductor laser 21 of a wavelength 780 nm for the CD-R/RW. An optical axis correction element 15 is arranged between the integrated element 11 and a beam splitter 16. A step hologram, blaze hologram, etc., are used as the optical axis correction element 15.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To diffuse unintended light in various directions or to restrain its reflection and t reduce the incidence of a stray light to a light receiving element by applying a stray light treatment for reducing the regular reflection of incident light to the incident surface, the exiting surface or the side surface of a laser beam excepting a diffracted pattern. SOLUTION: Laser beams LA, LB emitted from laser diode chips 12A, 12B are diffracted by the light source side hologram 18A of a hologram element 18 and are emitted after being reflected by a right angle prism 15, and return light is diffracted by an objective lens side hologram 18C and is received. Thus, various degrees of unintended diffracted light beams excepting the objective diffracted light beam are generated in an optical integrated element 12, and the unintended diffracted light beams are possibly to be reflected as a stray light by respective surfaces of the hologram element 18 and to make incident on light receiving elements 16A, 16B. Thereupon, the surfaces excepting the holograms 18A, 18C of the hologram element 18 are roughened and are subjected to a stray light treatment.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make simplifiable the operation control by converging laser beams emitted from a light source to an optical disk, emitting return light obtained from the disk to a light receiving element and integrally turning the light source and the light receiving element with the light emitting point of the laser beam of the light source as a turning center. SOLUTION: A gate control mechanism 42 is composed of a holder 42A for holding a light integrating element 4 and a receiver 42B of the holder 42A. The receiver 42B is formed by making a base 40 almost circular and thin in wall thickness and a through hole 42C is formed at the center of the circular form. The holder 42A is formed into a disk, a through hole is formed at the center and the light integrating element 4 is held so as to guide the laser beams emitted from the light integrating element 4 to the side of the receiver 42B. The holder 42A controls the inclination of the light integrating element 4 by turning the light integrating element 4 constituted by integrally holding a light emitting element and the light receiving element with the virtual light emitting point of the light integrating element 4 as a center as shown by arrows B and C.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate design of an optical pickup and to improve movement efficiency. SOLUTION: This apparatus is provided with a fixed block 10 fixed to a movement base 7, and a movable block 11 moved in the directions of focusing and tracking for the fixed block, while holding a first objective lens 16 and a second objective lens 17 arranged being separated in the almost tangential direction for a recording track, when a lens center S2 of the second objective lens is positioned at a segment of a line Lr passing through a center of a disk type recording medium 100 and extended to a radial direction and the lens center of the second objective lens is positioned corresponding to a recording track Ti existing in the most inner periphery, a lens center S1 of the first objective lens is positioned corresponding to a more outside than a recording track existing at the most inner periphery or the recording track, when the lens center of the second objective lens is positioned corresponding to a recording track To existing at the most outer periphery, the lens center of the first objective lens is positioned corresponding to a more inside than the recording track existing at the most outer periphery or the recording track. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup having an optical system consisting of a common collimator lens and an objective lens for multi-wavelength laser beams, in which magnification being optimum for respective wavelengths is set, and also to provide an optical disk apparatus using this optical pickup. SOLUTION: By putting in and out a magnification conversion element 3 to/from an optical path between a multi-wavelength collimator lens 2 and a multi-wavelength correspondence objective lens 4 depending on the wavelengths of the laser beams, that is, in the case of the wavelength of 407 mm for BD, composite focal distance with the multi-wavelength correspondence objective lens 4 is shortened and optical magnification is enlarged by putting the magnification conversion element 3 in the optical path. In the case of the wavelength of 650 mm for DVD, optical magnification is made five times of the original one by putting the magnification conversion element 3 off the optical path. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save the space for an optical system which records and reproduces CDs, DVDs, and BDs by correcting an optical axis tilt resulting from a different light emission point position without causing light quantity loss nor characteristic deterioration when an LD capable of emitting two-wavelength or three-wavelength lasers having a long light emission point interval is used. SOLUTION: An optical system put in an optical pickup includes a one-wavelength laser diode 11 dedicated for DBs, a two-wavelength laser diode 28 dedicated to both CDs and DVDs, and an objective 23 exclusively for DBs, and an objective 24 exclusively for both CDs and DVDs, and an optical path change angle for making a laser beam of 780 nm in wavelength incident on the objective for both CDs and DVDs is set to such an angle that an optical axis tilt of the laser beam of 780 nm in wavelength being eliminated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cancel an off-axis aberration in the case of shaking a field of view not only when reproducing a DVD but also when reproducing a CD in the optical head of a non-infinite system. SOLUTION: When reproducing the DVD, a finite objective lens 1 is moved back from a magnetically neutral position Po a distance Hd and when reproducing the CD, the finite objective lens 1 is moved forwards from the magnetically neutral position Po a distance Hc. In an actuator for driving the finite objective lens 1 in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, by utilizing a stress difference caused by a difference in the operating position of the finite objective lens 1, the characteristics of a lens inclination angle relative to an amount of lens movement in the case of moving the finite objective lens 1 in the tracking direction are changed in the cases of reproducing the DVD and reproducing the CD and the actuator has rolling characteristics for inclining the finite objective lens 1 at an inclination angle for canceling the third-order coma aberration in an inclination direction to cancel the third-order coma aberration in both the cases of reproducing the DVD and reproducing the CD.