Abstract:
A diffraction element, an optical pickup and an optical disc apparatus are provided to improve optical property of small aberration and to reduce the aberration of the diffraction element by forming a second diffraction element without distortion. A diffraction element, an optical pickup and an optical disc apparatus comprise a first member, a second member and a third member. The first member is made of a transparent injection molded material, and has two optical surfaces. The second member is installed at one optical surface of the first member to form a first diffraction pattern on the surface and a first ultraviolet curable resin(100A) having a refraction index in a range of ±0.013 for the refraction index of the first member. The third member is mounted on the other optical surface of the first member to form a second diffraction element on the surface and a second ultraviolet curable resin(100B) having the refraction index in the range of ±0.013 for the refraction index of the first member.
Abstract:
An optical lens composed of a transparent material, wherein one surface thereof on a light source side is a convex aspherical surface of rotation symmetry defined by a function relative to the radial distance from an optical axis. The aspherical surface is shaped to be a curved one without any stepped region with regard to the radial direction in the defined area, and has a portion where the derivatives of the function are discontinuous at a predetermined radial position. Although not equipped with an iris diaphragm, this optical lens is capable of eliminating an incident light beam outside the optical effective surface thereof without deteriorating the optical characteristics.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a polarizing element, which can easily obtain a polarizing element with a large area in which the distribution of the spectral characteristics in the plane is uniform and which has high reliability in a short time, and to provide a polarizing element produced with the method for producing a polarizing element. SOLUTION: The method comprises: an antireflective film-forming step where an antireflective film 12 with an antireflective function to visible light vertically incident and ultraviolet light obliquely incident on the main face of a substrate 11a is formed on either main face of the substrate 11a; a lithography step where a resist layer 13a is formed on the other main face of the substrate 11a, and interference exposure and development using the ultraviolet light are performed regarding the resist layer 13, and the patterning of the resist layer 13 is performed; an etching step where the other main face side of the substrate 11a is subjected to etching, and ruggedness with a diffraction grating shape is formed on the other main face; and an inorganic fine particle layer-forming step where an inorganic fine particle layer 15 is formed on the tip part or one side face part of the projecting part in the ruggedness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare a diffraction element having a fine and accurate diffraction pattern. SOLUTION: When a diffraction pattern layer 20D wherein the diffraction pattern PTc in a step shape of a plurality of steps is formed is provided by pressurizing a metal mold to a photosetting resin 100A applied on one surface of a base member 20C and irradiating the photosetting resin with UV to cure the resin, each diffraction pattern layer 20D is formed into a plurality of layers for every step of a part of the diffraction patterns. Thereby, the depth of the shape of the metal mold is reduced to enhance accuracy thereof and the diffraction element 20 having satisfactory shape accuracy and high diffraction efficiency is obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve an optical pickup and optical disk drive which can exhibit successful property to a plurality of kinds of optical disks. SOLUTION: An abberation generated by oblique incidence to an objective lens unit 9 is compensated by shifting and arranging a first diffraction pattern PTd from an optical axis by having positioned the first diffraction pattern PTd which makes an optical beam Ld of a first wavelength which carries out oblique incidence to the objective lens unit 9 to an optical axis of the object lens unit 9, so that the abberation of the optical beam Ld of the first wavelength which is diffracted by the first diffraction pattern PTd and condensed with an objective lens 21 becomes minimum. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve an optical pickup and an optical disk drive which can present successful property to a plurality of kinds of optical disks. SOLUTION: A stray light reflected with the diffraction element 20 is diverted from the optical axis CL by providing a diffraction component 20 with a net angle θ to an optical axis CL and an adverse effect by the stray light are prevented, and an abberation in optical beams of first and second wavelengths generated by the inclined diffraction element 20 are compensated by shifting and arranging the first diffraction pattern PTc and the second diffraction pattern PTd from the optical axis CL. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a diffractive element exhibiting preferable characteristics. SOLUTION: The diffractive element is produced by forming a cover layer 20D and a diffraction pattern layer 20E on an upper face 20Ca and a lower face 20c, respectively, of a base layer 20C comprising an injection molded product. The diffraction pattern layer 20E and the cover layer 20D are successively formed by a UV replica method, in the order of higher glass transition point Tg of the UV-curing resin to be used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily design a diffraction element having satisfactory characteristics. SOLUTION: When a diffraction grating DG wherein a wavelength λ not to be diffracted and a wavelength λ to be diffracted are respectively determined as design targets is designed, values of refractive indices n of materials M1 and M2 to be candidates in each wavelength λ are substituted for a left side of formula (16), a right side of formula (16) is made to be a ratio of simple integers by satisfying formula (11) and the materials M1 and M2 to be the candidates are discriminated to be suitable as materials which constitute the diffraction grating DG when formula (17) is satisfied. Thus, the materials M1 and M2 capable of forming the diffraction grating DG as to be specified designed can be easily selected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To hardly change a diffraction efficiency EF regardless of usage temperature. SOLUTION: In the diffraction element, which is composed of a base layer 20C having a diffraction pattern PTc for a CD and a cover layer 20D covering the base layer 20C, a cover material RA and a base material RB are selected so that a change amount of the refractive index nA of the cover material RA and a change amount of the refractive index nB of the base material RB when temperature is changed from -40[°C] to 75[°C] are nearly equal to each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT