Abstract:
An optical head enabling a size reduction so that the optical head can be stored in an opening of a cartridge for a disk and enabling an improvement in the dynamic performance as the density and transfer rate are increased is provided. In a two-axis actuator optical head capable of driving an objective lens (102) along the Z axis in the focus direction, that is, vertical to the surface of the optical disk and along the X axis in the tracking direction, that is, the radial direction of the optical disk. The objective lens (102) is disposed in the center of the coil bobbin (101), a focusing coil (103) is disposed around the coil bobbin (101) and is wound around the X axis, and tracking coils (104a and 104b) are disposed on both ends of the coil bobbin (101) in the X axis direction and are wound around the X axis. Pairs of magnets (107a to 107d) are disposed plane-symmetrically with the Z-Y plane including the Z axis aligned with the optical axis of the objective lens (102) and the Y axis and with the Z-X plane including the Z axis and the X axis.
Abstract:
By multiplexing a drive signal of an actuator with a drive signal of an aberration correction mechanism when transmitting them, it is possible to simplify and reduce size of an optical pickup even if the aberration correction mechanism is composed of liquid crystal or the like. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent deterioration of various characteristics.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microparticle analyzer and a microparticle analysis method capable of accurately detecting fluorescence emitted from each dye even when a microparticle is modified with a plurality of fluorescent dyes.SOLUTION: The microparticle analyzer includes a light irradiation section that has a plurality of light sources for emitting laser beams of different wavelengths and radiates the laser beams to microparticles flowing through a flow channel. The microparticle analyzer also includes a light source drive control section for controlling the light emission of each light source of the light irradiation section. The light source drive control section supplies first current to each light source, and supplies second current to each light source in a time sharing manner while it supplies the first current. Thus, a plurality of laser beams of different wavelengths are radiated to the microparticles in a time sharing manner.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably and satisfactorily control the high frequency amplitude of a semiconductor laser, irrespective of its temperature characteristics or change over aging when a high frequency signal is superposed on a driving signal to suppress the scoop noise of the laser. SOLUTION: The laser driver comprises a voltage-controlled oscillator 3a for superposing high frequency on a driving signal of a semiconductor laser LD, an optical detector for receiving at least a part of the light emitted from the laser LD, a means for extracting amplitude information based on a signal inputted from the output of the optical detector through a narrow-pass or high- pass filter for extracting the high frequency, and a means for comparing the amplitude information obtained by the amplitude information extracting means with a reference value to control the voltage-controlled oscillator, based on the comparison result.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a decreased size small enough to be accommodated in the opening of a disk cartridge and also an enhanced dynamic performance adaptable to high density and high transfer rate. SOLUTION: The optical head is of a two-axis actuator system in which an objective lens 102 is driven along the Z-axis parallel to the focusing direction vertical to the optical disk surface and along the X-axis parallel to the tracking direction which is a radial direction of the optical disk. The objective lens 102 is disposed at the center of a coil bobbin 101. A focusing coil 103 is provided around the Z-axis on the coil bobbin 101. Tracking coils 104a, 104b are provided around the X-axis on the coil bobbin 101 at both ends of the coil bobbin 101 along the X-axis. Magnets 107a-107d are so arranged as to be symmetrical with respect to the Z-Y plane including the Z-axis parallel to the optical axis of the objective lens 102 and the Y-axis and with respect to the Z-X plane including the Z-axis and the X-axis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an optical pickup simplifiable and miniaturizable and to make preventable various kinds of deterioration in the characteristics by applying to the case in which an aberration correcting mechanism is constituted of a liquid crystal, for example, which relates to a method of driving optical pickup, an optical pickup, an optical disk apparatus. SOLUTION: Driving signals S0 and S3 for an actuator and driving signals S1 and S3 for the aberration correction mechanism 16 are multiplexed and transmitted.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cope with a high transfer rate of an optical disk drive unit. SOLUTION: A detecting signal of inputted laser beams is inputted to a ternary level detecting circuit 2 by a preamplifier 1, and ternary level signals corresponding to a peak power, erase power and cooling power of the laser beams are produced from the above detected signal. Then, the difference of this ternary level signal from the set value is obtained and the difference signal is inputted to a waveform generating circuit 8. In the waveform generating circuit 8, the adding/non-adding operations of the difference signal are executed in accordance with data for recording, and a laser control signal for data recording is produced and outputted to a laser driver. Also, when the data are erased, the laser control signal for data erase is produced in the waveform generating circuit 8 by using an output of the ternary level detecting circuit 2, but when the data are reproduced, the detected signal is inputted to the waveform generating circuit 8 through the route different from the ternary level detecting circuit 2 to produce the laser control signal for data reproduction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of a timing shift of pulses due to a difference in wire length and enable the emission of optical pulses of a shorter light emission time at a high transfer rate by reducing the number of wirings. SOLUTION: An emitter grounded circuit 18 having a single circuit analog signal input system converts a voltage signal J1 inputted from an input terminal 18a into a current signal, and is so structured that a signal output from a high frequency oscillator circuit 20 is added to the current signal of the emitter grounded circuit 18 at the time of regeneration. A signal on the J1 side is boosted for a higher area within a band of a transistor Q6 while the deterioration of the output signal of the high frequency oscillator circuit 20 is kept as small as possible by means of a base grounded circuit of the transistor Q6. A current switching circuit 16 cuts off or passes a current inputted into a current mirror circuit 12 in a next stage to cut off or output an output current of the current mirror circuit 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser drive circuit which can improve the drive of a high-resistance semiconductor laser such as a GaN semiconductor laser. SOLUTION: This semiconductor laser drive circuit 100 has a buffer circuit 40 which shapes the waveforms of input signals S4 to S7, a level shift circuit 50 which shifts the levels of output signals S4A to S7A of the buffer circuit 40, a switch circuit 60 which controls and outputs the signal levels of output signals S4B to S7B of the level shift circuit 50 according to switching control signals S3 and S8, a composing circuit 30 which puts together output signals S61 and S62 of the switching circuit 60, and a source follower 4, which supplies electric power to the high-resistance semiconductor laser 3 according to the output signal of the composing circuit 30. The high-resistance semiconductor laser 3 is, for example, a GaN-based semiconductor laser which emits violet laser light.