Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus includes a diffractive optical element, and an objective lens that focuses a light beam of a first wavelength λ1, a light beam of a second wavelength λ2 and a light beam of a third wavelength λ3 on a first recording medium, a second recording medium, and a third recording medium, respectively, the wavelengths λ1, λ2, and λ3 being different from each other. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffractive surface that neither diffracts the light beam of the first wavelength λ1 nor the light beam of the third wavelength λ3 but diffracts the light beam of the second wavelength λ2, and a second diffractive surface that neither diffracts the light beam of the first wavelength λ1 nor the light beam of the second wavelength λ2 but diffracts the light beam of the third wavelength λ3, and each of the first and second diffractive surfaces satisfies the following condition inequality: Λ/λ≧8 wherein Λ represents the minimum pitch in the case that the width which generates a phase difference of one wavelength when the closest wavefronts resulting from adjacent steps in each of the diffractive surfaces are linked with each other is defined as one pitch, and λ represents the wavelength of the diffracted light.
Abstract:
A multi-focal objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information using a first light flux with a wavelength λ1 on a first and second optical discs, includes a first optical surface including a first diffractive structure. The multi-focal objective lens converges a diffracted light flux with one of the m-th diffraction order and the n-th diffraction order on an information recording surface of the first optical disc for recording and/or reproducing information of the first optical disc, and converges a diffracted light flux with another of the m-th diffraction order and the n-th diffraction order on an information recording surface of the second optical disc for recording and/or reproducing information of the second optical disc.
Abstract:
In an optical pickup apparatus for reproducing and/or recording information from/onto four kinds of optical information recording mediums, an optical path of a light flux entering to a first objective optical element when using the first objective optical element and an optical path of a light flux entering to a second objective optical element when using a second objective optical element are arranged to be different so that a position of an incident light flux entering into the first objective optical element when using the first objective lens and a position of an incident light flux entering into the second objective optical element when using the second objective optical element are different in an orthogonal direction to an optical axis.
Abstract:
An objective lens system for an optical pickup apparatus, includes in order from an object side: a first lens group having negative paraxial power P1 (mm−1); and a second lens group having positive paraxial power P2 (mm−1) for converging a light flux emitted from the first lens group on an information recording surface of an optical information recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus comprises a first light source for emitting a first light flux having first wavelength λ1 (430 nm>λ1>380 nm), a second light source for emitting a second light flux having second wavelength λ2 (λ2>λ1), an objective optical system having phase structure thereon, and at least one moving optical element for guiding the light flux into the objective optical system, the moving optical element being moved in a direction parallel to an optical axis corresponding to the first light wavelength λ1 and the second light wavelength λ2, wherein the objective optical system has phase structure and satisfies M1=M2=0, where, M1 and M2 denote a first and second magnifications of the objective optical system for recording and/or reproducing the information on or from the first and second optical information media.
Abstract:
In a beam shaping device for converting the laser light emitted from a semiconductor laser light source from an elliptic beam to a circular beam, the light-entrance-side and light-exit-side surfaces of the beam shaping device both have a curvature only in the minor-axis direction of the cross section of the elliptic beam. Of the light-entrance-side and light-exit-side surfaces, one is a circular-arc cylindrical surface and the other is a non-circular-arc cylindrical surface. The beam shaping device fulfills prescribed conditions with respect to the center thickness, surface shapes, and/or other features.
Abstract:
A zoom lens system includes two lens components, and zooming is performed by moving a first lens component. The zooming is performed along a zoom curve such that the first lens component is moved out so that in-focus condition is obtained at a subject distance predetermined with respect to each focal length. As the subject distance, an excess focal length or a subject distance where the far side of the depth of field is the maximum flash reachable distance or a subject distance where the near side of the depth of field is the shortest object distance or a subject distance where the object distance or the magnification is fixed is set according to the purpose.
Abstract:
A zoom lens system comprises from the object side, a front lens group having a refractive power of a predetermined sign and a rear lens group having a refractive power of different sign from that of the front lens group. The front lens group is shiftable along the optical axis of the lens system in a zooming operation, and movable perpendicularly to the optical axis for decreasing a blur caused by a hand shake. The rear lens group is shiftable along the optical axis in the zooming operation.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus for recording/reproducing information onto/from a first and a second optical information recording media respectively having a first and second protective layers with a thickness of t1 and t2, using first light beams having a wavelength λ1, the optical pickup apparatus comprises, a first light source having the wavelength of λ1, a first and a second objective optical elements, wherein when recording/reproducing the information onto/from the first optical information recording media, one of the first and the second objective optical lenses is used to condense the first light beams onto a first information recording surface and when recording/reproducing the information onto/from the second optical information recording medium, the other objective optical lens is used to condense the first light beams onto a second information recording surface, wherein the thickness of t1 and the thickness of t2 satisfy a following formula, 2.5
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus comprises a first, second and third light beam sources for emitting first light beams having wavelengths λ1, λ2 and λ3 (λ1