Abstract:
An objective lens device, an optical pickup device, and an optical disc driving device are provided to read three formats of recording medium and to reduce the size thereof. An objective lens device comprises a first objective lens(21), a second objective lens(22), a third objective lens(23), and a lens holder(26). The first objective lens focuses a light beam on a first optical recording medium and has a predetermined number of apertures. The second objective lens focuses a light beam on a second optical recording medium and has a predetermined number of apertures, where the number of the apertures is less than that of the first objective lens. The third objective lens gathers focuses a light beam on a third optical recording medium and has a predetermined number of the apertures where the number of the apertures is less than that of the second objective lens. The lens holder supports the first, the second, and the third objective lenses. An optical pickup device includes a light source additionally. The light source radiates a first light beam of a first wavelength, a second light beam of a second wavelength which is greater than the first wavelength, and a third light beam of a third wavelength which is greater than the second wavelength.
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:
An optical head having an objective lens with a high numerical aperture of 0.8 or more comprising, in order to correct a spherical aberration due to the manufacture errors of an optical recording medium and a lens, to correct a chromatic aberration sufficiently even when a short-wave semiconductor laser is used, and to correct an aberration which is caused when an identical optical system is used for beams of different wavelengths: a light source; an objective lens (20) composed of two or more lenses and having a numerical aperture of 0.80 or more; and an aberration correcting lens group 1 arranged between those light sources and objective lens (20) and composed of a positive lens group (3) and a negative lens group (2). The aberration correcting lens group (1) corrects the spherical aberration to be caused on the individual optical faces of the optical system by making variable the distance between the positive lens group (3) and the negative lens group (2) in the optical axis direction.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for driving an optical recording medium for recording and/or reproducing various information for the optical recording medium, in which the output power ratio of the light source may be reduced for recording and reproduction, for optical recording media of different sorts, or for respective recording surfaces of a multi-layered optical recording medium, so that optimum characteristics may be realized even with use of an easy-to-fabricate light source or a light source with a smaller light output rating. The intensity of a light beam emitted on an optical recording medium (102) by an optical head (104) is controlled by optical coupling efficiency varying elements (214, 215) depending on the sort of the optical recording medium (102), recording surfaces of a multi-layered optical recording medium, recording surfaces in a multi-layered optical recording medium or on the operating modes, in such a manner that the intensity of the light beam emitted on the optical recording medium (102) may be significantly varied without drastically increasing the output power ratio on the side light source (2).
Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus having a simple configuration and being capable of performing switching between an image pickup mode based on a light field photography technique and a normal high-resolution image pickup mode is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup lens 11, a microlens array section 12 where light passing through the image pickup lens 11 enters, and an image pickup device 13 sensing light emitted from the microlens array section 12, and the focal length of each of microlenses constituting the microlens array section 12 is variable in response to an applied voltage.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal device capable of imparting a desired phase distribution to transmitted light without need to perform complex calculation. The manufacture and evaluation of the liquid crystal device can be easily conducted. A liquid crystal layer (120) sealed in the space between glass substrates (100, 110) has a given thickness distribution due to the unevenness of a sub-substrate (111) provided on the inner side of the glass substrate (110). Electrodes (130, 140) provided on both sides of the liquid crystal layer (120) are planar and parallel. Therefore, the spacing between the two electrodes (130, 140) are always constant, and the distribution of the electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer (120) is uniform. As a result, the shape of the phase distribution to which the light transmitted through the liquid crystal is subjected is determined only by the thickness distribution of the liquid crystal layer, and the magnitude is determined by the value of the voltage applied between the electrodes. Thus, since the distribution of the electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer is uniform, the phase distribution of the transmitted light is easily and accurately calculated by using the thickness distribution of the liquid crystal layer.
Abstract:
A low-profile biometrics authentication system capable of achieving high security level authentication is provided. A biometrics authentication system 1 includes a light source 10, a light guide section 11A, a diffraction section 11B, a microlens array 12, an image pickup device 13, an image processing section 14, a pattern storing section 15, an authentication section 16, a voltage supply section 17, a light source driving section 181, an image pickup device driving section 182 and a control section 19. When light L0 emitted from the light source 10 propagates through the light guide section 11A by total reflection, and then enters the diffraction section 11B, light L1 diffracted at a different angle from an incident angle is generated. Thereby, the light guide section 11A functions as a surface-emitting light source, and total reflection conditions in the light guide section 11A are not satisfied, and the light L1 is guided to the outside of the light guide section 11A, thereby light is sufficiently applied to the inside of the living body 2.
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.
Abstract:
An optical disc comprising a substrate and a recording layer and a light-transmitting layer, laid on a substrate one upon the other in the order mentioned. A light beam is applied to the recording layer through the light-transmitting layer, to record and/or reproduce data on the disc. The light-transmitting layer is composed of at least two material layers laid one on the other and having different refractive indices. The disc is designed to set the spherical aberration caused by an objective lens that focuses the light beam used to record and/or reproduce data, at a value close to a minimum.