Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080259767 | Objective optical element and optical pickup apparatus - An objective optical element of an optical pickup apparatus has a magnification m | 10-23-2008 |
20080316900 | Optical pickup apparatus, recording/reproducing apparatus provided with the optical pickup apparatus, optical element, and information recording/reproducing method - An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux, where n stands for an integer other than zero. | 12-25-2008 |
20090016195 | Optical pickup apparatus, recording/reproducing apparatus provided with the optical pickup apparatus, optical element, and information recording/reproducing method - An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux, where n stands for an integer other than zero. | 01-15-2009 |
20090103419 | Optical Pickup Device, Optical Information Recording and Reproducing Device and Design, Method of Optical Element - In order to provide an optical pickup device, an objective optical element and an optical information recording and reproducing device that can properly record and/or reproduce information with three different recording densities and that can be realized with a simplified structure and at low cost, the optical pickup device is comprised of an optical element, the construction of which is stacked with first, second and third basic structures to make different optical lengths. | 04-23-2009 |
20090147657 | Optical pickup device and objective lens used in the same - An optical system has an optical functional surface including a common region used for conducting information recording and/or reproducing for both of a first optical information recording medium and a second optical information recording medium. The common region comprises a refractive surface of an imaginary basic aspherical surface and a optical path difference providing structure in which plural ring-shapes zones are separated around the center of an optical axis and neighboring ring-shaped zones are displaced to each other in a direction of an optical axis so as to cause an optical path difference obtained by multiplying a predetermined wavelength λs (λ | 06-11-2009 |
20090196147 | Optical pickup apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus for information recording and/or reproduction on different optical information recording media with compatibility among these media, the optical surface of a first objective lens and the optical surface of a second objective lens are formed only of a refractive surface. The second objective lens is used in common for the first light flux with a wavelength of λ | 08-06-2009 |
20090196149 | Optical pickup apparatus - In order to provide an optical pickup apparatus that has a relatively simple configuration and that can carry out recording and/or reproduction of information in a s compatible manner for different optical information storage medium, the optical surface of the first objective lens OBJ | 08-06-2009 |
20100067356 | OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical element for an optical pickup device which can record and/or reproduce information interchangeably with an optical disc while correcting coma satisfactorily, and a compact optical pickup device employing that optical element and exhibiting excellent energy saving. In the optical element for an optical pickup device where a first objective lens portion and a second objective lens portion are formed integrally, one of the first objective lens portion and the second objective lens portion satisfies a relation |HCM|/|TCM|<0.3 and the other satisfies a relation |HCM|/|TCM|>0.3. The HCM represents the third-order angle of view coma sensitivity in the first objective lens portion or the second objective lens portion, and the TMC represents the third-order inclination angle coma sensitivity in the first objective lens portion or the second objective lens portion. | 03-18-2010 |
20100260031 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Pickup Apparatus - Provided is an objective lens for an optical pickup apparatus. The objective lens collects diffracted light generated by an optical path difference giving structure onto the information recording surface of an optical information recording medium as a spot and suppresses fluctuation of diffraction efficiency due to a change of using wavelength. The optical pickup apparatus using such objective lens is also provided. The total diffraction efficiency can be improved by adjusting a wavelength at which the diffraction efficiencies of a plurality of basic structures forming the optical path difference giving structure in the objective lens are maximum, in accordance with a basic structure. | 10-14-2010 |
20100284262 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting-a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. The optical pickup apparatus provides a wavelength dependency of a spherical aberration so as to correct a change in a spherical aberration due to a refractive index change with a temperature change of the objective optical element. | 11-11-2010 |
20110194396 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. The optical pickup apparatus provides a wavelength dependency of a spherical aberration so as to correct a change in a spherical aberration due to a refractive index change with a temperature change of the objective optical element. | 08-11-2011 |
20120155241 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS AND OBJECTIVE OPTICAL UNIT - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting a third light flux; and an objective optical unit having a first optical path difference providing structure and a second optical path difference providing structure. Magnifications of the objective optical unit for the first-third light fluxes have almost same value. The first optical path difference providing structure provides a predefined optical path difference and changes a spherical aberration to be one of under-correction and over-correction for all of the first light flux, the second light flux, and the third light flux. The second optical path difference providing structure provides a predefined optical path difference and changes a spherical aberration to be the other of under-correction and over-correction of the spherical aberration only for the second light flux. | 06-21-2012 |