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Космические корабли и станции, автоматические КА и методы их проектирования, бортовые комплексы управления, системы и средства жизнеобеспечения, особенности технологии производства ракетно-космических систем

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Мониторинг СМИ

Мониторинг СМИ и социальных сетей. Сканирование интернета, новостных сайтов, специализированных контентных площадок на базе мессенджеров. Гибкие настройки фильтров и первоначальных источников.

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12-01-2012 дата публикации

Optical disc drive and method of controlling laser light power in optical disc drive

Номер: US20120008477A1
Принадлежит: Hitachi LG Data Storage Inc

This invention provides an optical disc drive with more accurate and stable power control for a laser light source. An optical disc drive in an embodiment of this invention includes a monitor photodetector for receiving laser light emitted by a laser light source to monitor the laser light power. The monitor diode is a photodetector for generating an electric signal corresponding to the laser light power. A laser light controller controls drive current to the laser light source based on a result of measurement by the monitor diode. The optical disc drive measures output variations of the monitor diode and controls the gain of the monitor diode based on the result of the measurement. This gain control improves accuracy and stability in laser light control so that stability in recording/reading can be attained.

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12-01-2012 дата публикации

Optical information recording reproduction apparatus and optical information recording reproduction method

Номер: US20120008484A1
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An optical information recording reproduction apparatus includes: a first light beam source; a second light beam source emitting a beam with a wavelength shorter than that of the first light beam source; and an object lens condensing the beams from the first and second light beam sources to an optical information recording medium. When information is recorded in the optical information recording medium, a recording beam is emitted from the first light beam source and a beam used to generate a signal for controlling a position of the object lens is emitted from the second light beam source. When the information of the optical information recording medium is reproduced, a reproduction beam is emitted from the second light beam source.

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12-01-2012 дата публикации

Objective Lens, Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Information Recording Reproducing Apparatus

Номер: US20120008485A1
Автор: Eigo Sano, Yuichi Ozaki
Принадлежит: Konica Minolta Opto Inc

An objective lens relating to the present invention includes a first optical path difference providing structure in which a first basic structure and a second basic structure are overlapped with each other. The first basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Xth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the first basic structure, where the value of X is an odd integer. At least a part of the first basic structure arranged around an optical axis includes a step facing an opposite direction to the optical axis. The second basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Lth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the second basic structure, where the value of L is an even integer. At least a part of the second basic structure arranged around the optical axis includes a step facing the optical axis.

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12-01-2012 дата публикации

Recording device and apc correction method

Номер: US20120008486A1
Автор: Akio Terada
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

A recording device includes a light irradiation portion which irradiates an optical recording medium with laser light emitted from a light source via a field lens, a light emission drive portion which drives and causes the light source to emit light, a front monitor which receives the laser light emitted from the light source, a light receiving portion which receives reflected light which is obtained from the optical recording medium in response to the laser light irradiation, a focus servo control portion which controls a focus servo of the field lens on the basis of a light receiving signal by the light receiving portion, a surface jump controller which controls the focus servo control portion so as to perform a focus jump operation to a surface of the optical recording medium, and a surface APC corrector which performs a process as an auto power control (APC) correction process.

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02-02-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for processing information from optical disk layers

Номер: US20120026855A1
Принадлежит: General Electric Co

A method for processing information is provided. The method includes directing a laser beam to a first track of a first layer of a holographic storage medium. The method also includes recording a base voltage based on a look-up table. The method includes directing the laser beam to a target track in the first layer, based on position information in tracks. Further, the method includes recording an offset voltage for the target track into the look-up table. Still further, the method includes directing the laser beam to a target layer based on position information in vertical wobbles. The method also includes recording an offset voltage for the target layer into the look-up table. Finally, the method includes determining a final voltage based on the look-up table and applying the final voltage to an actuator for moving the laser beam to a final target position in the holographic storage medium for recording and retrieval of information.

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02-02-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup device

Номер: US20120026858A1
Принадлежит: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd

An optical pickup device has an astigmatism element which imparts astigmatism to reflected light of laser light reflected on a recording layer, and a spectral element into which the reflected light is entered, and which separates the reflected light. The spectral element is divided into four third areas by a first area having a certain width and formed along a straight line in parallel to a first direction, and by a second area having a certain width and formed along a straight line in parallel to a second direction. The spectral element is configured to guide the reflected light passing through the four third areas to respective corresponding sensors on a photodetector while making propagating directions of the reflected light different from each other, and to avoid guiding the reflected light entered into the first area and into the second area to the sensors.

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16-02-2012 дата публикации

Hybrid Near-Field Transducer For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Номер: US20120039155A1
Принадлежит: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC

An apparatus includes a planar waveguide having a core layer and a cladding layer adjacent to the core layer, the waveguide being shaped to direct light to a focal point; a magnetic pole adjacent to the cladding layer; and a near-field transducer positioned adjacent to the focal point, wherein the near-field transducer includes an enlarged portion and a peg having a first end positioned adjacent to an end of the waveguide and a second end positioned adjacent to a side of the enlarged portion. A data storage device that includes the apparatus is also provided.

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01-03-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Номер: US20120051200A1
Автор: Hidetaka Kodama
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An information processing apparatus includes: a signal reproduction section configured to obtain a reproduced signal from a recording medium by radiating a laser beam emitted by a laser-beam source to the recording medium; and a high-frequency signal superposition section configured to superpose either a first high-frequency signal or a second high-frequency signal having a frequency higher than the frequency of the first high-frequency signal on a driving signal used for driving the laser-beam source, wherein, in a first signal reproduction operation, the high-frequency signal superposition section superposes the first high-frequency signal on the driving signal whereas, in a second signal reproduction operation to measure information on the amplitude of the reproduced signal, the high-frequency signal superposition section superposes the second high-frequency signal on the driving signal.

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01-03-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup apparatus

Номер: US20120051205A1
Принадлежит: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd

Provided is an optical pickup apparatus using a reduced number of parts. An optical pickup apparatus ( 26 ) of the present invention includes: a laser unit ( 108 ) for emitting a laser beam complying with the BD standards; a laser unit ( 106 ) for emitting a laser beam complying with the DVD standards and a laser beam complying with the CD standards; and a PDIC ( 10 B) for receiving and detecting the laser beams complying with the respective standards. Because the laser beam complying with the DVD standards and the laser beam complying with the BD standards are received by one photo detector provided in the PDIC ( 10 B), the number of parts needed for the optical pickup apparatus ( 26 ) can be reduced, and the costs of the apparatus can be decreased.

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22-03-2012 дата публикации

System, method and apparatus for fabricating a c-aperture or e-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications

Номер: US20120070784A1

A method of fabricating a c-aperture or E-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications in hard disk drives is disclosed. A c-aperture or E-antenna is built for recording head applications. The technique employs e-beam lithography, partial reactive ion etching and metal refill to build the c-apertures. This process strategy has the advantage over other techniques in the self-alignment of the c-aperture notch to the c-aperture internal diameter, the small number of process steps required, and the precise and consistent shape of the c-aperture notch itself.

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05-04-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup device

Номер: US20120082020A1
Автор: Kenji Nagatomi
Принадлежит: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd

An astigmatism element converges laser light in first and second directions to generate focal lines. A spectral element makes propagating directions of light fluxes entered into first through fourth areas different from each other to disperse the four light fluxes from each other. The direction along which the first and second areas are aligned is in parallel to a direction of a track image of a recording medium projected onto the spectral element. Each of the first and second areas has a surface area larger than a surface area of each of the third and fourth areas, and a boundary portion between the first and second areas, and the third and fourth areas includes a straight portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the track image.

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05-04-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup device

Номер: US20120082021A1
Автор: Ui-yol Kim, Yong-Jae Lee

An optical pickup device, an optical drive using the same, and a method of forming a beam spot are provided. The optical pickup includes a light source system that includes a light source corresponding to at least one of a digital versatile disc (DVD) and a Blu-ray disc (BD). The light source forms a beam spot having an oval shape with a long axis and a short axis on an information recording track of the disc, and the light source is disposed such that the long axis is maintained at an angle ranging from 0° to 30° with respect to a radial direction passing through a rotation center of the disc.

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12-04-2012 дата публикации

Method of manufacturing thermal assisted magnetic write head

Номер: US20120084969A1
Принадлежит: SAE Magnetics HK Ltd, TDK Corp

A method of manufacturing a thermally-assisted magnetic write head is provided. The method includes steps of: forming a laminate structure including the waveguide; the plasmon generator, and the magnetic pole in order; performing a first polishing process to planarize an end surface of the laminate structure; performing a first etching process to remove impurity attached on the end surface of the laminate structure, and to allow the plasmon generator to be recessed from the waveguide and the magnetic pole, thereby forming a recessed region on the end surface of the laminate structure; forming a protection layer on the end surface of the laminate structure such that at least the recessed region is filled; and performing a second polishing process on the end surface of the laminate structure formed with the protection layer until the plasmon generator is exposed, thereby completing the air bearing surface.

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19-04-2012 дата публикации

Recording apparatus and control method

Номер: US20120092976A1
Автор: Yoshiyuki Urakawa
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

A recording apparatus including: a light-illuminating/receiving-unit illuminating an optical-disc-recording-medium through a common object-lens with recording-light and ATS-light and receiving reflected-ATS-light; a rotation-driving-unit driving rotation of the medium; a tracking-mechanism driving the lens in a tracking-direction parallel to the radial direction; a tracking-error-signal-generation-unit generating a tracking-error-signal; and a tracking-servo-controller performing tracking-servo-control on the lens based on the tracking-error-signal, wherein the tracking-servo-controller includes: a servo-calculation-unit based on the tracking-error-signal in a feedback-loop as a tracking-servo-loop; and a feed-forward-controller calculating an estimated control-target-value of the tracking-servo-control based on an estimated illumination-spot-position value of the ATS-light obtained in a first-filter-process emulating a transfer-characteristic of the tracking-mechanism on an output of the servo-calculation-unit and a distance between the illumination-spot-positions and applies a control-signal generated in a second-filter-process on the estimated value for suppressing a transfer-characteristic-gain of the tracking-servo-loop to 0 dB or less in the entire band to the tracking-servo-loop.

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03-05-2012 дата публикации

Optical head device and optical disc device

Номер: US20120106310A1
Принадлежит: Mitsubishi Electric Corp

An optical head device mounted in an optical disc device. The optical head device is provided with a diffractive optical element and a photodetector. The diffractive optical element has: a primary diffraction region at a location on which the positive and negative first-order components and some of the zero-order component of a reflectively diffracted light beam are incident; and secondary diffraction regions at locations on which the rest of the zero-order component but none of the positive or negative first-order components of the reflectively diffracted light beam are incident. A main light-receiving section of the photodetector receives the zero-order component of a transmissively diffracted light beam that has passed through the primary diffraction region and the secondary diffraction regions. Secondary light-receiving sections receive the positive first-order component and/or the negative first-order component of the transmissively diffracted light beam that has passed through the secondary diffraction regions.

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24-05-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup

Номер: US20120127845A1
Принадлежит: Hitachi Media Electronics Co Ltd

An optical pickup includes an objective lens, a lens holder which holds the objective lens, a focusing coil attached to the lens holder having the winding axis directed at the optical axis of the objective lens, and a magnet provided opposite the side surface of the lens holder. A protruding portion is attached to the side surface of the lens holder at a side apart from the objective lens with respect to the optical axis direction of the objective lens farther than the focusing coil.

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14-06-2012 дата публикации

Light-emitting device

Номер: US20120147602A1
Принадлежит: Alps Electric Co Ltd

A holding hole of a holding body has an edge portion and an inner peripheral surface which is a concavely curved surface connected to the edge portion. In a light source unit which supports a light source, projections are formed at three locations, and each of front surfaces thereof has a convexly curved line having a curvature radius longer than that of the inner peripheral surface. When the light source unit is inserted into the holding hole, the front surfaces of the projections at the three locations are brought into point contact with the edge portion at contact portions on the convexly curved lines. By performing laser welding at these contact portions, the attitude of the light source unit after its tilt adjustment can be stabilized and fixed to the holding body.

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14-06-2012 дата публикации

Optical disk record and playback apparatus and pickup protecting method thereof

Номер: US20120151506A1
Автор: Yorio Takahashi
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

The present invention avoids a case in which a pickup lens and a lens protector come into contact with a structure of a disk cartridge and are damaged. When an operation distance is short and there is a disk cartridge 203 and the disk cartridge 203 is not an exclusive cartridge, a moving range of the pickup 107 is restricted or an actuating operation thereafter is stopped depending upon whether the optical disk medium 101 loaded into the optical disk apparatus is an optical disk medium having a short operation distance, whether there is a disk cartridge 203, and whether a structure of the disk cartridge 203 is prevented from coming into contact with a pickup lens or the lens protector which is exclusive for the optical disk medium having the short operation distance.

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14-06-2012 дата публикации

Optical head device, optical information device, and information processing device

Номер: US20120151508A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

When information is recorded or reproduced on or from an optical information medium having three or more recording layers using blue light, interference by another layer light is reduced and, when information is reproduced from an optical information medium using red light, an S/N ratio is held excellently high. An optical head device includes a first laser light source ( 1 ) which emits blue light, a second laser light source ( 2 ) which emits red light, an objective lens ( 11 ) which focuses the blue light onto a recording layer of a first optical disc ( 12 ) or focuses the red light onto a recording layer of a second optical disc ( 13 ), a photodetector ( 9 ) which receives the blue light reflected by the recording layer of the first optical disc ( 12 ) or the red light reflected by the recording layer of the second optical disc ( 13 ) and outputs an electric signal in accordance with an amount of the received blue light or red light, and a wavelength selective light blocking region ( 7 x ) which blocks a predetermined range of the blue light including an optical axis thereof to prevent the predetermined range from reaching the photodetector ( 9 ), and transmits the red light.

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21-06-2012 дата публикации

Recording methods and devices for recording information on dual layer recordable disks

Номер: US20120155234A1
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV

The invention relates to recording methods for recording information on a dual layer recordable disk, and to corresponding recording devices. In one such method and recording device the OPC-area is variably located on a layer of the disk. In a preferred embodiment the OPC-area is located relative close to the radius where the data stream switches from the first layer to the second layer. This reduced additional time required for jumping to a fixed OPC-area. Furthermore, in another such method and device the information to be recorded is equally divided over both layers of the dual layer disc. This avoids additional time required for finalization.

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28-06-2012 дата публикации

Optical disc recording method and optical disc recording apparatus

Номер: US20120163143A1
Автор: Toshiyuki Murayama
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An optical disc recording method of determining a disc address when write and read operations are performed for an optical disc during recording power calibration in an optical disc recording apparatus having at least two optical head units including first and second optical head units is disclosed. The method includes: determining a first recording power calibration start address, which is an address at which the first optical head unit starts calibration of the recording power, from a power calibration area provided in advance as an area used to calibrate the recording power; and determining an address obtained by adding a range of the power calibration area used to calibrate the recording power to the first recording power calibration start address as a second recording power calibration start address, which is an address at which the second optical head unit starts calibration of the recording power.

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28-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for writing data to optical storage medium

Номер: US20120163146A1
Принадлежит: MediaTek Inc

A method and apparatus for writing data to an optical storage medium are disclosed. A write signal indicating power levels of a laser diode is generated by encoding and decoding codewords. The codewords are generated and decoded according to a specific requirement proposed by the present invention. By doing so, toggling (i.e. state changing) times occurring in channels transferring the codewords can be significantly reduced to avoid the problems of pulse distortion and disappearance in high frequency transmission. Alternatively, toggles appearing in the respective channels can be spread to avoid interference between the channels. Further, a phase adjustment device for adjusting a phase of each codeword is disclosed.

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05-07-2012 дата публикации

Optical head device, optical information device and information processing device

Номер: US20120170431A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

An optical head device includes a light blocking region ( 7 y ) which is disposed on a light flux of a reflected light beam resulting from reflection by a recording layer on which a blue light beam is focused, and blocks, when there are at least two recording layers on a blue light beam incident side of the recording layer on which the blue light beam is focused or on a side thereof opposite to the blue light beam incident side, reflected light beams resulting from reflection by the at least two recording layers which are incident on a region in a photodetector ( 9 ) where the reflected light beams resulting from the reflection by the at least two recording layers interfere with each other. The light blocking region ( 7 y ) is not formed on an optical axis of the reflected light beam resulting from the reflection by the recording layer on which the blue light beam is focused. This configuration allows an improvement in the S/N ratio of a signal outputted from the photodetector.

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12-07-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup device and optical disc apparatus applying the same

Номер: US20120176881A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

An optical pickup device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor laser light source which outputs linearly-polarized light having an elliptical shape, an objective lens which focuses light outputted from the semiconductor laser light source, forming an optical spot on an optical disc; and a polarization plate which is disposed placed on an optical path between the semiconductor laser light source and the objective lens, and which polarizes the light outputted from the semiconductor laser light source and transmits elliptically-polarized light, wherein the polarization plate is disposed such that a major axis of the elliptical polarization of the light transmitted by the polarization plate is parallel to or perpendicular to a major axis of the elliptical shape of the light.

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09-08-2012 дата публикации

Method for driving optical pickup apparatus

Номер: US20120201115A1
Автор: Takayuki Okamoto
Принадлежит: Funai Electric Co Ltd

A method for driving an optical pickup apparatus which improves the durability of components that drive a movable lens that moves back and forth between an original position and a drive-limit position and achieves stable operability and an extended lifetime of the optical pickup apparatus performs a first step-drive in which a movable lens moves to an original-restoration start position by being driven a specified distance toward a drive-limit position, a second step-drive in which the movable lens thereafter moves to an original position by being driven toward the original position a distance equivalent to the distance from the drive-limit position to the original position, and a third step-drive in which the movable lens thereafter moves to a default position by being driven a specified distance.

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16-08-2012 дата публикации

Semiconductor light emitting device, optical pickup unit and information recording/reproduction apparatus

Номер: US20120205680A1
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

A semiconductor light emitting device downsized by devising arrangement of connection pads is provided. A second light emitting device is layered on a first light emitting device. The second light emitting device has a stripe-shaped semiconductor layer formed on a second substrate on the side facing to a first substrate, a stripe-shaped p-side electrode supplying a current to the semiconductor layer, stripe-shaped opposed electrodes that are respectively arranged oppositely to respective p-side electrodes of the first light emitting device and electrically connected to the p-side electrodes of the first light emitting device, connection pads respectively and electrically connected to the respective opposed electrodes, and a connection pad electrically connected to the p-side electrode. The connection pads are arranged in parallel with the opposed electrodes.

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23-08-2012 дата публикации

Optical head, optical disc device, information processing device, and objective lens

Номер: US20120213052A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

Provided are an optical head capable of favorably recording or reproducing information to or from an information recording medium including a plurality of information recording surfaces, an optical disc device including the optical head, an information processing device including the optical disc, and an objective lens. The optical head ( 40 ) includes a blue-violet laser light source ( 1 ) which emits a blue-violet laser beam, an objective lens ( 8 ) which has an orbicular zone-shaped diffractive structure, and which diffracts the blue-violet laser beam and converges the generated diffracted light of n-th order (where n is a natural number) on a predetermined information recording surface of a multi-layer optical disc ( 60 ), and a light-receiving element ( 23 ) which receives the blue-violet laser beam reflected by the predetermined information recording surface, wherein the diffractive structure adds a positive power component and a spherical aberration component to the n-th order diffracted light.

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20-09-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup apparatus, integrated circuit, and method for controlling laser output of optical pickup apparatus

Номер: US20120236887A1
Принадлежит: Semiconductor Components Industries LLC

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a first laser light source including a first laser diode to emit a laser beam having a first wavelength, and a back-monitor photodetector to receive the laser beam emitted in a backward direction, not being an optical-disc direction, and output a first monitor signal; a second laser-light source including a second laser diode to emit a laser beam having a second wavelength; a light-receiving circuit including a front-monitor photodetector to receive the laser beam emitted in a forward direction, being the optical-disc direction, and output a second monitor signal, and a switch circuit to be inputted with the first and second monitor signals, and output the first or second monitor signal according to a switch signal; and first and second drive circuits to drive the first and second laser diodes according to the first and second monitor signals outputted from the light-receiving circuit, respectively.

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27-09-2012 дата публикации

Optical information recording method, optical information reproduction method and optical disk device

Номер: US20120243393A1
Принадлежит: Koichiro Nishimura, Yusuke Nakamura

When a phase shift is to be evaluated, based on a difference between an output from a waveform equalization circuit to equalize an input reproduced signal to a predetermined target equalization characteristic and the target equalization characteristic, the phase shift of the reproduced signal relative to a channel clock, a group delay characteristic with respect to the frequency of the waveform equalization circuit is fixed. Hence, an equalized waveform as an output from the waveform equalization circuit can preserve phase shift information of the inputted reproduced signal to correctly detect the phase shift of the reproduced waveform using the equalized waveform. It is hence possible to realize, with high precision, optimal value learning of various parameters for the recording, reproduction, and servo by use of the phase shift as an index.

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04-10-2012 дата публикации

Magnetic head for microwave assisted magnetic recording

Номер: US20120250472A1
Принадлежит: TDK Corp

A magnetic head that writes information to a recording medium includes a magnetic pole layer that generates a writing magnetic field to the recording medium, a microstripline that is disposed in proximity to the magnetic pole layer and to which high frequency current is applied, and a ferromagnetic thin film that is disposed on a portion of the microstripline that faces the recording medium, and that generates a high frequency alternate-current (AC) magnetic field to be applied to the recording medium, using a current magnetic field generated on the microstripline due to the high frequency current.

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04-10-2012 дата публикации

Optical disc device and recording method

Номер: US20120250482A1
Автор: Takeshi Ogata
Принадлежит: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co Ltd

An optical disc device and a recording method is provided in which information can be additionally recorded on an optical disc, which has a servo layer and recording layers separately formed, by accurately correcting a relative angle between a light beam and the optical disc used in the previous recording without providing an area where recording is not performed while maintaining the stability of tracking servo. The above subject can be solved by studying with high accuracy the relative angle between the optical disc and the optical axis used in the previous recording by applying a radial tilt servo according to a signal from the recording layers with the tracking servo applied by the servo layer. Further, the additional recording can be performed stably by fixing the radial tilt at the previously studied angle when the recording is performed.

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11-10-2012 дата публикации

Optics with Simultaneous Variable Correction of Aberrations

Номер: US20120257278A1
Принадлежит: Akkolens International BV

The invention refers to an optical system comprising at least two optical elements of which at least one is movable relative to the other in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical system, wherein the combination of optical elements is adapted to correct variable aberrations of at least two different orders simultaneously of which the degree of correction depends on the relative position of the optical elements. This optical system is adapted to correct aberrations which are variable and dependent on the position of the lens with respect to the subject/imaging plane. Further the optical system is adapted to correct aberrations varying along with defocus of the system. These aberrations may include second order aberrations, meaning defocus and astigmatism, third-order aberrations, meaning comas and trefoils, fourth-order aberrations, for example, spherical aberration, and further higher-order aberration terms.

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08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method of Forming a Plasmon Antenna with Magnetic Core for Thermally Assisted Magnetic Recording

Номер: US20120279051A1
Принадлежит: Headway Technologies Inc

A method of forming a TAMR (Thermal Assisted Magnetic Recording) write head that uses the energy of optical-laser generated edge plasmons in a plasmon antenna to locally heat a magnetic recording medium and reduce its coercivity and magnetic anisotropy. The method incorporates forming a magnetic core within the plasmon antenna, so the antenna effectively becomes an extension of the magnetic pole and produces a magnetic field whose maximum gradient overlaps the region being heated by the edge plasmons generated in the conducting layer of the antenna surrounding the antenna's magnetic core.

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08-11-2012 дата публикации

Optical pickup and optical information storage medium system using the same

Номер: US20120281516A1
Автор: Jin-Ho Jung

An optical pick-up is provided. The optical pick-up includes a light source, a first objective lens configured to focus light emitted from the light source on a high-density optical information storage medium, a photo-detector configured to detect a signal by receiving light reflected from the high-density optical information storage medium, an optical-path changer configured to convert a travel path of incident light to allow the light emitted from the light source to proceed toward the high-density optical information storage medium, and to allow the light reflected from the high-density optical information storage medium to proceed toward the photo-detector, and a blocking device disposed in an optical path of signal light reflected from a target reproducing/recording layer of the high-density optical information storage medium, passes through the first objective lens, and proceeds toward the photo-detector.

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29-11-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for irradiating a medium

Номер: US20120300608A1
Автор: Takahiro Masumura
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A method for irradiating a medium with a wave which is designed to focus on a particular portion in the medium, the method includes: irradiating the medium with an electromagnetic wave which is scattered in the medium, and is not designed to focus on the particular portion in the medium; detecting a first signal caused by irradiating the medium with the electromagnetic waver; irradiating the medium with a reconstructed wave which is designed to focus on the particular portion in the medium; detecting a second signal caused by irradiating the medium with the reconstructed wave; and monitoring, based on the first and second signals, that the particular portion is irradiated by the reconstructed wave.

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06-12-2012 дата публикации

Optical disc apparatus

Номер: US20120307611A1
Автор: Shinya Shimizu
Принадлежит: Funai Electric Co Ltd

An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup that emits light to an optical disc and receives reflection light reflected by the optical disc, a temperature sensor for detecting ambient temperature of the optical pickup, a temperature control processing portion that performs a process corresponding to temperature information obtained by the temperature sensor, and a filter portion that performs filtering of a signal about the temperature information during a period until the temperature information detected by the temperature sensor is input to the temperature control processing portion.

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13-12-2012 дата публикации

Near-Field Transducers for Focusing Light

Номер: US20120314549A1
Принадлежит: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC

An apparatus includes a waveguide shaped to direct light to a focal point, and a near-field transducer positioned adjacent to the focal point, wherein the near-field transducer includes a dielectric component and a metallic component positioned adjacent to at least a portion of the dielectric component. An apparatus includes a waveguide shaped to direct light to a focal point, and a near-field transducer positioned adjacent to the focal point, wherein the near-field transducer includes a first metallic component, a first dielectric layer positioned adjacent to at least a portion of the first metallic component, and a second metallic component positioned adjacent to at least a portion of the first dielectric component.

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13-12-2012 дата публикации

Lens, lens mounting method and optical pickup device

Номер: US20120314555A1
Автор: Toru Kajino

A lens includes a lens portion which condenses light; a reflecting flat portion which is formed in a periphery of the lens portion and reflects parallel light to be irradiated to the reflecting flat portion in a direction opposite to the irradiation direction; and a flange portion which is adhered to a lens holder by an adhesive. An applied portion of the adhesive which is formed on the flange portion is inclined with respect to the reflecting flat portion.

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20-12-2012 дата публикации

Thermally Assisted Magnetic Head Assembly and Magnetic Disk Device

Номер: US20120320719A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI LTD

A slider including a magnetic head part, an optical waveguide, and a near field element is fixed by first and second adhesives to a submount on which a semiconductor laser and a mirror are mounted, the mirror being placed at one end of the semiconductor laser in a resonance direction thereof and reflecting a laser in a direction intersecting with the resonance direction. At this time, at least parts of the first and second adhesives are applied to a position opposed to the semiconductor laser with an intermediation of the submount. The first adhesive having a higher Young's modulus than that of the second adhesive is applied onto an inflow end side of the slider including a solder connection portion, the second adhesive being applied onto an outflow end side of the slider.

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20-12-2012 дата публикации

Optical recording medium driving apparatus, high frequency superposition method, and program

Номер: US20120320725A1
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An optical recording medium driving apparatus includes: a driving signal generating unit that generates a driving signal for driving a laser beam source; a high frequency superposition unit that performs high frequency superposition on the driving signal; a light receiving unit that receives an optical feedback of a laser beam; an evaluation signal generating unit that generates an evaluation signal from a light reception signal; a storage unit that stores first high frequency superposition amount information corresponding to a high frequency superposition amount for a normal reproduction mode and second high frequency superposition amount information corresponding to an amount that is greater than that represented by the first high frequency superposition amount information; and a superposition amount control unit that performs control so that a high frequency superposition amount based on the second high frequency superposition amount information is set when measuring an evaluation index based on the evaluation signal.

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10-01-2013 дата публикации

Optical pickup apparatus

Номер: US20130010178A1
Автор: Shinzoh Murakami
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

There is provided an optical pickup apparatus. In an optical pickup apparatus, a focus diffraction region includes focus regions of which a number of types is equal to a number of types of light that can be emitted by a light source. The types of the focus regions correspond to the respective types of light, the respective focus regions diffract the corresponding types of light toward same positions of focus light-receiving regions. The focus regions include a plurality of focus segmented regions. The plurality of focus segmented regions of the respective types of focus regions are periodically distributed in the focus diffraction region, and at least some of the focus segmented regions are disposed to be adjacent to focus segmented regions for different types of light.

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17-01-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for generating focus error signal, optical head and optical driving apparatus

Номер: US20130015320A1
Принадлежит: Hitachi Media Electronics Co Ltd

In a method and apparatus for generating a focus error signal, an optical head and an optical driving apparatus are configured such that a light beam is divided into at least two light beams, coma aberration of a predetermined direction is added to one of the divided light beams, and coma aberration of a direction different from the predetermined direction of the coma aberration is added to the other divided light beam to thereby generate the focus error signal.

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17-01-2013 дата публикации

Optical disk apparatus

Номер: US20130016594A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

Provided is an optical disk apparatus capable achieving stable focus control or tracking control. A first detector receives reflected light from an object lens optical system, a second detector receives reflected light from a prescribed information layer, a positional deviation determination unit determines positional deviation between a focal point of a light beam and a point where information on the prescribed information layer is recorded or reproduced, on the basis of a signal from the second detector, a stray light determination unit determines a surface stray light component which is reflected light from the surface of an optical disk and is included in the signal from the positional deviation determination unit, on the basis of the signal from the first detector, and a stray light correction unit corrects the signal output from the positional deviation determination unit on the basis of the surface stray light component thus determined.

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24-01-2013 дата публикации

Optical disk driving apparatus, optical disk driving system, vehicle equipped with optical disk driving system, method of correcting spherical aberration in optical disk driving apparatus, program and recording medium

Номер: US20130021884A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

An optical disk driving apparatus includes an optical head device having a laser light source, a converging optical system converging a light beam emitted by the laser light source onto an optical disk, a photo detector receiving reflected light reflected by the optical disk, and an aberration correcting optical system controlling aberration of the converging optical system; a motor rotating the optical disk; and a control section receiving a signal from the photo detector, wherein the converging optical system has an objective lens formed using resin as a main material, the aberration correcting optical system has a spherical aberration correcting element correcting spherical aberration, and the control section evaluates quality of a reproduction signal for information in the optical disk by using the reflected light received by the photo detector, and utilizes a result of the evaluation to perform closed loop control on the spherical aberration correcting element.

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31-01-2013 дата публикации

Clamping bookmarks

Номер: US20130025530A1
Принадлежит: FRANKLIN MILL LLC

A bookmark can include a ribbon coupled to a clip. The clip can include a rigid body and a display body that are resiliently coupled to each other. The rigid body can include upper and lower attachment regions at which the ribbon is coupled with the clip.

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14-02-2013 дата публикации

Optical element retaining device, optical element transfer device and optical pickup device

Номер: US20130039161A1

An element holding device of the present invention includes: a guide portion engaging with a guide shaft; a lens fixing portion on which to fix a collimator lens; an arm portion; an insertion portion having a hole portion in which to insert a guide shaft; a wire fixing portion made by protruding a side surface of the insertion portion in a −Y direction; and a wire fixed on the wire fixing portion. A bent portion being a leading end portion of the wire is housed in a slit. Thereby, excess deformation of a contact portion is suppressed.

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14-02-2013 дата публикации

Laser diode read driver

Номер: US20130039373A1
Автор: Douglas Warren Dean
Принадлежит: Texas Instruments Inc

A laser diode read driver includes a first transistor producing a first voltage in response to receiving a first current signal. A transconductor has a first input coupled to receive the first voltage and produces a second current signal in response to differences between signals received on the first input and a second input. A second transistor is coupled to the second input and produces a third current signal in response to receiving the second current signal. A third transistor is coupled to the second transistor and the second input and produces an output current signal in response to receiving the third current signal. The first transistor is scaled to the first transistor by the inverse of a gain factor. First and second resistors are coupled between the first and third transistors and a low voltage supply, and are scaled to each other by the gain factor.

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14-03-2013 дата публикации

OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Номер: US20130064057A1
Принадлежит:

A disclosed objective lens includes: a lens having an entrance surface and an emission surface; and an anti-reflection coat formed on the emission surface, wherein a transmittance T [%] of the anti-reflection coat when an incident angle of a first laser beam having a first wavelength λ (390 nm≦λ≦430 nm) is 0°, and the transmittance T [%] of the anti-reflection coat when the incident angle of the first laser beam is 40° satisfy 0.95≦T/T≦1.05, and a transmittance T [%] of the anti-reflection coat when an incident angle of a second laser beam having a second wavelength λ (630 nm≦λ≦680 nm) is 0° and a transmittance T [%] of the anti-reflection coat when the incident angle of the second laser beam is 40° satisfy 0.85≦T/T≦0.97. 1. An objective lens made from synthetic resin , that converges a laser beam emitted from a laser light source onto an information recording surface of an information recording medium , the objective lens comprising:a lens having a first surface facing the laser light source and a second surface facing the information recording medium; andan anti-reflection coat formed on the second surface, wherein{'b': 1', '1', '1', '2', '2', '2', '2', '1, 'the lens converges a first laser beam having a first wavelength λ (390 nm≦λ≦430 nm) that transmits through an area, of which radius from an optical axis of the objective lens is R, of the first surface, onto an information recording surface of a first information recording medium, and converges a second laser beam having a second wavelength λ (630 nm≦λ≦680 nm) that transmits through an area, of which radius from the optical axis of the objective lens is R (R Подробнее

28-03-2013 дата публикации

Laser diode driver damping circuit

Номер: US20130076266A1
Принадлежит: Texas Instruments Inc

A damping circuit having an input terminal and an output terminal is described. The damping circuit comprises a driver having an input and an output; an RC circuit coupled between the input terminal and the output; and a resistor coupled between the output and the output terminal, wherein the RC circuit delays passing a signal from the output terminal to the input terminal and a low impedance associated with the driver generally reduces ringing.

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28-03-2013 дата публикации

HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS

Номер: US20130077457A1
Принадлежит:

In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for recoding information in form of a hologram. The method can generate a displacement signal by detecting a displacement of a holographic recording medium. The method can perform an exposure control operation that, if the sampling value of the displacement signal falls within an allowable displacement range, records the information item in the holographic recording medium, and if the sampling value of the displacement signal falls outside the allowable displacement range, blocks or reduces at least one of the information light and the reference light to a light intensity with which the information item is not recorded in the holographic recording medium. 1. A holographic recording method , comprising:generating a displacement signal by detecting a displacement of a holographic recording medium in which an information item is recorded in a form of a hologram by interference of information light and reference light, the information light being emitted by a coherent light source and including the information item to be recorded, the reference light and the information light being the same wavelength;calculating a frequency distribution information item of sampling values of the displacement signal, by sampling the displacement signal at a first interval time, assigning a frequency to one of classes which corresponds to a sampling value, the classes being a plurality of ranges divided at first intervals;determining an allowable displacement range as an amplitude range of a displacement of the displacement signal based on the frequency distribution information item; andperforming an exposure control operation that, if the sampling value of the displacement signal falls within the allowable displacement range, records the information item in the holographic recording medium, and if the sampling value of the displacement signal falls outside the allowable displacement range, blocks or reduces at least one of the information light ...

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

Optical elements, method of replicating optical elements, particularly on a wafer level, and optical devices

Номер: US20130083397A1
Принадлежит: DigitalOptics Corp East

Integrated multiple optical elements may be formed by bonding substrates containing such optical elements together or by providing optical elements on either side of the wafer substrate. The wafer is subsequently diced to obtain the individual units themselves. The optical elements may be formed lithographically, directly, or using a lithographically generated master to emboss the elements. Alignment features facilitate the efficient production of such integrated multiple optical elements, as well as post creation processing thereof on the wafer level.

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

Номер: US20130083644A1
Принадлежит: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION

In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. 12-. (canceled)3. An optical information recording medium comprising:a substrate formed with an area having deflected grooves,a recording layer being recordable by a laser beam, anda transmission layer having a thickness of 0.1 mm,wherein a push-pull signal output reproduced from deflected grooves is more than 0.22.4. A reproducing apparatus for reproducing an optical information recording medium , said optical information recording medium comprising:a substrate formed with an area having deflected grooves,a recording layer being recordable by a laser beam, anda transmission layer having a thickness of 0.1 mm,wherein a push-pull signal output reproduced from deflected grooves is more than 0.22, andwherein said reproducing apparatus further comprises a laser, an objective lens and a 4 division photo detector. This application is a Continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 13/370,626, filed Feb. 10, 2012 (allowed), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 13/029,578, filed Feb. 17, 2011 (now U.S. Pat. No. 8,139,470), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 12/647,029 filed Dec. 24, 2009 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,911,931), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 12/144,168 filed Jun. 23, 2008 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,664,007), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 11/434,783 filed May 17, 2006 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,406,026), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 11/157,857 filed Jun. 22, 2005 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,072,285), which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 09/695,866, filed on Oct. ...

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

Optical pickup, inclination angle detection method, optical information device and information processing device

Номер: US20130083645A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

An optical pickup, an inclination angle detection method, an optical information device, and an information processing device capable of reliably and accurately detecting a relative inclination angle between an end face of a solid immersion lens and a surface of an optical recording medium are provided. A convergence position modifying unit modifies convergence states of a first beam and a second beam according to layers of an optical recording medium, a first optical detector includes a first light receiving section which receives the converged first beam and a second light receiving section which receives the converged second beam, and the first optical detector detects a relative inclination angle between an end face of a solid immersion lens and a surface of the optical recording medium based on a difference in quantities of received light between the first light receiving section and the second light receiving section.

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS

Номер: US20130094341A1
Принадлежит:

According to one embodiment, an optical pickup configured to record and to reproduce on a layer of a disk, including, a light source configured to emit a laser beam, an objective lens including a variable use magnification and configured to focus the laser beam on the layer, a collimator lens configured to change the magnification of the objective lens by moving along an optical axis direction, and a liquid crystal module configured to generate spherical aberration to cancel a coma aberration which may occur because an object point and an image point of the objective lens at the use magnification do not exist on an optical axis of the objective lens. 1. An optical pickup configured to record and configured to reproduce on an optical disk with a plurality of layers , comprising:a light source configured to emit a laser beam;an objective lens including a variable use magnification and configured to focus the laser beam on one of the plurality of layers;a collimator lens configured to change the use magnification of the objective lens by moving along an optical axis direction; anda liquid crystal module configured to generate, for each of the plurality of layers, spherical aberration for canceling out coma aberration which may occur because an object point and an image point of the objective lens at the use magnification do not exist on an optical axis of the objective lens.2. The optical pickup of claim 1 , wherein the objective lens satisfies a Herschel's condition for higher-order spherical aberration.3. The optical pickup of claim 1 , wherein the liquid crystal device gives a phase difference equivalent to third-order spherical aberration to a wavefront of the laser beam.4. An optical disk apparatus comprising:an optical pickup configured to record and configured to reproduce on an optical disk with a plurality of layers, the optical pickup includes,a light source configured to emit a laser beam,an objective lens including a variable use magnification and ...

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25-04-2013 дата публикации

OBJECTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE

Номер: US20130100792A1
Автор: NAKAMURA Kentarou
Принадлежит: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Provided is an objective optical element which can appropriately correct degradation from spherical aberration upon fluctuation of a light source wavelength while maintaining light use efficiency, just by changing the magnification of the objective optical element, and which can record/reproduce information to/from different optical discs. Also provided is an optical pickup device using the objective optical element. When a light flux having two different wavelengths λ, λ(wherein λ<λand λ−λ=5 nm) within a range of wavelength λis introduced to the objective optical element to measure the wavefront aberration, the following third order and fifth order spherical aberrations in unit of λrms are obtained: SA3(λ), SA5(λ), SA3(λ), SA5(λ). If ΔSA3=|SA3(λ)−SA3(λ)|, ΔSA5=|SA5(λ)−SA5(λ)|, the following expression is satisfied: 0.18>ΔSA3>ΔSA5>0(1) 115.-. (canceled)17. The optical pickup device of satisfying ΔSA3:ΔSA5=α:1 claim 16 , wherein the value of a satisfies 4≦α≦9.18. The optical pickup device of claim 16 ,{'b': 3', '2', '3', '3', '2', '3, 'wherein the objective optical element is used for the optical pickup device further comprising a third light source emitting a third light flux with a wavelength λ (λ<λ), wherein the optical pickup device records and/or produces information by converging the third light flux onto an information recording surface of a third optical disc including a protective layer with a thickness t (t Подробнее

02-05-2013 дата публикации

Information Recording Medium, Method and Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Information

Номер: US20130107682A1
Автор: Ueki Yasuhiro
Принадлежит: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LTD.

An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a second playback mode different from the first playback mode. The first lead-in information area has a first depth and is designed for storing lead-in information related to the contents information stored in the data area. The second lead-in information area includes pre-pits having a second depth greater than the first depth. The pre-pits represent predetermined information, such as information of copyright protection, related to the contents information stored in the data area. 130-. (canceled)31. An information recording medium comprising:a lead-in area;a lead-in information area located in the lead-in area;a data area for storing user information;a first groove area having a groove; anda second groove area having a groove;wherein the lead-in information area is an area which has a first physical characteristic and which includes an embossed area representing lead-in information for recording or reproducing user information on or from the data area;wherein the data area has a second physical characteristic; andwherein the first groove area continuously connects with a front side of the embossed area, and the second groove area continuously connects with a rear side of the embossed area.32. A method of reproducing user information from the information recording medium of claim 31 , comprising the steps of:accessing lead-in information in the lead-in information area of the information recording medium; andreproducing user information from the data area of the information recording medium in accordance with the accessed lead-in information.33. An apparatus for reproducing user information from the information recording medium of claim 31 , ...

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02-05-2013 дата публикации

INFORMATION RECORDING / REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS

Номер: US20130107686A1
Принадлежит:

An information recording/reproducing method includes: setting light beam power from a light source, to second power P which is weaker than first power P and detecting the number of the recording layers provided for an optical disc; controlling an objective lens to focus the light beam on one recording layer which is the closest to the objective lens, in a condition that the detected number of the recording layers ≧3; setting the power of the light beam to third power P between P and P specifying the number of the recording layers provided for the optical disc on the basis of layer information, which is information associated with the one recording layer; and setting the power of the light beam to P reading the layer type information recorded in advance in the one recording layer, and specifying a disc type based on the read layer type information. 1. An information recording/reproducing method in an information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information onto an optical disc or reproducing the recorded information by focusing a light beam emitted from a light source on the optical disc via an objective lens , the optical disc having a plurality of recording layers , layer type information indicating a type of each of the recording layers being recorded in advance in the each recording layer , said information recording/reproducing method comprising:a number-of-layer detecting process of setting power of the light beam emitted from the light source, to second power, which is weaker than first power as one power, and detecting the number of the recording layers provided for the optical disc;a lens controlling process of controlling the objective lens to focus the light beam emitted from the light source on one recording layer which is the closest to the objective lens out of the plurality of recording layers, in a condition that the detected number of the recording layers is greater than or equal to three;a power setting process of setting the power of ...

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02-05-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

Номер: US20130107691A1
Автор: Nishiwaki Seiji
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corporation

In an embodiment, an optical pickup includes at least one light source for selectively emitting three light beams having blue, red, and infrared wavelengths, respectively, and an objective lens arranged so that each of the three light beams enters thereto. The objective lens includes a first grating, and a second grating formed in the same plane as the first grating. The first and second gratings each have phase steps arranged concentrically around a center axis of a lens in a region in which all the three light beams pass, and are different in phase step positions. The first grating diffracts the three light beams having the blue, red, and infrared wavelengths in a 2order, a 1order, and the 1order, respectively. On the other hand, the second grating diffracts the three light beams having the blue, red, and infrared wavelengths in the 1order, the 1order, and the 1order, respectively. As a result, the three light beams having the blue, red, and infrared wavelengths, which have been transmitted through the first grating and the second grating, are diffracted in a 3order, the 2order, and the 2order, respectively. 1. An optical pickup , comprising:at least one light source for selectively emitting three light beams having blue, red, and infrared wavelengths, respectively; andan objective lens arranged so that each of the three light beams enters thereto,wherein the objective lens has a blazed grating structure, [{'sup': nd', 'st', 'st, 'a first grating having phase steps arranged concentrically around a center axis of a lens in a region in which all the three light beams pass, for diffracting the three light beams having the blue, red, and infrared wavelengths in a 2order, a 1order, and a 1order, respectively; and'}, {'sup': st', 'st', 'st, 'a second grating formed in the same plane as the first grating and having phase steps arranged concentrically around the center axis of the lens in the region in which all the three light beams pass at positions different from ...

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16-05-2013 дата публикации

RECORDING HEAD WITH WAVEGUIDE

Номер: US20130121121A1
Принадлежит: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC

An apparatus having a first pole with a first side and a second side opposite from the first side, a second pole positioned on the first side of the first pole, and a waveguide positioned on the second side of the first pole wherein the waveguide has an end adjacent to an air bearing surface. The first pole includes a first portion spaced from the waveguide and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface, with the second portion being structured such that an end of the second portion is closer to the waveguide than the first portion. 1. An apparatus , comprising:a waveguide positioned on a first side of a first pole, the waveguide having an end adjacent to an air bearing surface,wherein the first pole includes a first portion spaced from the waveguide and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface, with the second portion being structured such that an end of the second portion is closer to the waveguide than the first portion, and wherein the end of the second portion of the first pole is spaced from the air bearing surface.2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first pole is a write pole.3. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a second pole positioned on the second side of the first pole claim 1 , the second side being opposite from the first side of the first pole.4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the first pole is magnetically coupled to the second pole.5. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the second pole includes a first portion spaced from the first pole and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface claim 3 , with the second portion being structured such that the second portion is closer to the first pole than the first portion.6. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the second pole is at least partially wrapped around the first pole.7. The apparatus of claim 3 , further including means for energizing the first pole and the second pole.8. The ...

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16-05-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE AND LOSS-OF-CONTROL DETECTION METHOD

Номер: US20130121122A1
Принадлежит:

Provided is an optical disc device including a focus control unit for performing control so that a convergent point of a main beam converges on a predetermined information layer, a tracking control unit for performing control so that the convergent point of the main beam scans a predetermined track or a predetermined mark sequence on an information layer, a sub beam receiving unit for receiving a sub beam reflected off the information layer and outputting a signal according to an amount of beam received, and a microcomputer for detecting, during a recording operation of recording the information, a focus loss-of-control state where the convergent point of the main beam deviates from the predetermined information layer or a tracking loss-of-control state where the convergent point of the main beam deviates from the predetermined track or the predetermined mark sequence on the information layer. 115-. (canceled)16. An optical information device which records information by converging a main beam and a sub beam on an information layer of an information recording medium , the device comprising:a focus control unit for performing control so that a convergent point of the main beam converges on a predetermined information layer;a tracking control unit for performing control so that the convergent point of the main beam scans a predetermined track or a predetermined mark sequence on an information layer;a sub beam receiving unit for receiving the sub beam reflected off the information layer and outputting a signal according to an amount of beam received; anda loss-of-control detection unit for detecting, during a recording operation of recording the information, a focus loss-of-control state where the convergent point of the main beam deviates from the predetermined information layer or a tracking loss-of-control state where the convergent point of the main beam deviates from the predetermined track or the predetermined mark sequence on the information layer, based on a ...

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23-05-2013 дата публикации

TEST RECORDING METHODS FOR AN INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

Номер: US20130128708A1
Автор: Kim Sang-whook
Принадлежит:

Provided are a test method for an information storage medium and a recording and reproducing method using the test method. The test method includes recording a test signal in an optimum power control (OPC) zone formed in either a lead-in area or a lead-out area of the information storage medium, and recording the test signal in a protection zone formed in the other of the lead-in area and the lead-out area. 1. A test recording method for an information storage medium , the test recording method comprising:recording a test signal in an optimum power control (OPC) zone formed in one of a lead-in area and a lead-out area of the information storage medium, and recording a test signal in a protection zone formed in the other of the lead-in area and the lead-out area; andreading the recorded test signals.2. The test recording method of claim 1 , wherein the test signal calculates an optimum recording power on an inner circumference of the information storage medium and also on an outer circumference of the information storage medium.3. The test recording method of claim 2 , wherein the optimum recording power is obtained by linearly correcting a recording power calculated in the OPC zone claim 2 , and a recording power calculated in the protection zone.4. The test recording method of claim 1 , wherein the test signal calculates a parameter that is used to improve recording quality.5. The test recording method of claim 4 , wherein the parameter comprises at least one of a recording focus offset claim 4 , a recording tracking offset claim 4 , a recording tilt best point claim 4 , and a recording spherical aberration best point.6. The test recording method of claim 1 , wherein the test signal calculates a reproducing parameter.7. The test recording method of claim 6 , wherein the reproducing parameter comprises at least one of a reproducing focus offset claim 6 , a reproducing tracking offset claim 6 , a reproducing tilt best point claim 6 , and a reproducing spherical ...

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23-05-2013 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Multiplexing Optical Information for Recording and Reproducing Optical Information Over Optical Storage Medium

Номер: US20130128711A1
Автор: Kim Kun-Yul
Принадлежит: WI LAN Inc.

There is provided an optical multiplexer including: a substrate having a plurality of beam transmitting portions; and diffraction gratings diffracting beams irradiated to the beam transmitting portions at different angles, each diffraction grating being formed in the corresponding beam transmitting portion. 1a substrate having a plurality of beam transmitting portions; anda plurality of beam transmitting portions formed in and extended through holes in the substrate from the first surface to the second surface, each of the plurality of beam transmitting portions having a diffraction grating, said diffraction grating formed by irradiating a spherical wave beam and a plane wave beam respectively to the each of the plurality of beam transmitting portions, wherein each irradiation angle formed by the spherical beam and the plane wave beam onto each of the beam transmitting portions is different, and the diffraction grating diffracts a beam irradiated to the each of the plurality of beam transmitting portions at different angle, and the diffracted beam is multiplexed, wherein the multiplexed beam is incident on an optical information storage medium to record and reproduce data.. An optical multiplexer comprising: This U.S. application is a Continuation of pending U.S. application Ser. No. 11/486,451, filed Jul. 13, 2006, which claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2005-0127443, filed Dec. 22, 2005, which are both incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.1. Technical FieldThe present invention relates to an optical information multiplexing and processing apparatus, and more particularly, to an optical multiplexer for multiplexing a beam by the use of a diffraction grating and a manufacturing method thereof, optical information recording apparatus and method using the optical multiplexer, and optical information reproducing apparatus and method using the optical multiplexer.2. Related ArtExamples of an optical data processing apparatuses can include ...

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23-05-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD

Номер: US20130128714A1
Принадлежит: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

The above-described problem can be solved by the following optical-information reproducing apparatus: An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing a hologram storage medium into which an interference pattern is recorded as a hologram, the interference pattern being formed by causing a reference beam and a signal beam to interfere with each other, the optical-information reproducing apparatus, including an optical detector for detecting a reproduced beam, the reproduced beam being acquired by illuminating the recorded hologram with the reference beam, an optical element for generating a first reference beam and a second reference beam by branching the reference beam, a wavefront detector for detecting wavefront aberration of the reference beam by causing the first reference beam and the second reference beam to interfere with each other, and a wavefront compensator for compensating the wavefront of the reference beam, wherein the wavefront compensator is adjusted based on an output of the wavefront detector. 1. An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing a hologram storage medium into which an interference pattern is recorded as a hologram , said interference pattern being formed by causing a reference beam and a signal beam to interfere with each other ,said optical-information reproducing apparatus, comprising:an optical detector for detecting a reproduced beam, said reproduced beam being acquired by illuminating said recorded hologram with said reference beam;an optical element for generating a first reference beam and a second reference beam by branching said reference beam;a wavefront detector for detecting wavefront aberration of said reference beam by causing said first reference beam and said second reference beam to interfere with each other; anda wavefront compensator for compensating said wavefront of said reference beam, whereinsaid wavefront compensator is adjusted based on an output of said wavefront detector.2. The ...

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30-05-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS

Номер: US20130135977A1
Принадлежит:

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a first laser-light source to emit a first laser beam to a first optical disc; a first photodetector to output a first monitor signal indicative of intensity of the first laser beam; a second laser-light source to emit a second laser beam to a second optical disc; a second photodetector to output a second monitor signal indicative of intensity of the second laser beam; a signal-selection unit to select the first monitor signal when recording or reading of information is performed for the first optical disc, and select the second monitor signal when recording or reading of information is performed for the second optical disc; and a signal-transmission unit to transmit, via a common transmission path, the first monitor signal or the second monitor signal selected by the single-selection unit to a control circuit configured to control intensity of the first laser and second laser beams. 1. An optical pickup apparatus comprising:a first laser light source configured to emit a first laser beam to a first optical disc to which the first laser beam having a first wavelength conforms;a first photodetector configured to detect intensity of the first laser beam emitted from the first laser light source and output a first monitor signal indicative of intensity of the first laser beam;a second laser light source configured to emit—a second laser beam to a second optical disc to which the second laser beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength conforms;a second photodetector configured to detect intensity of the second laser beam emitted from the second laser light source and output a second monitor signal indicative of intensity of the second laser beam;a signal selection unit configured to select the first monitor signal when recording or reading of information is performed for the first optical disc, and select the second monitor signal when recording or reading of information is performed for the second optical ...

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

METHOD FOR WRITING AND READING DATA BY FLUORESCENCE ON A LIGHT-SENSITIVE SUBSTRATE, AND RELATED SUBSTRATE AND DEVICES

Номер: US20130142021A1
Принадлежит: UNIVERSITE BORDEAUX 1

A method for 3D recording of data on a medium formed from a transparent photosensitive material including at least one dopant. The method includes a first step of calibrating and checking a pulsed light source including calibrating the number of pulses, the level of fluence of each pulse emitted and the rate of the pulses and a step of inscribing an area of the material. The fluence of each pulse emitted, the number of pulses and the rate of the pulses are suitable for irradiating the material in the area so as to form fluorescent clusters stabilized from the dopant while minimizing the modification of the refractive index and the absorption coefficient of the medium in a wavelength range from visible to near infrared. 1. Method for 3D recording of data on a medium formed from a transparent photosensitive material including at least one dopant , said method including:a first step of calibrating and checking a first pulsed light source including calibrating the number of pulses, the level of fluence of each pulse emitted and the rate of the pulses; anda step of inscribing an area of the material,wherein the fluence of each pulse emitted, the number of pulses and the rate of the pulses are suitable for irradiating the material in said area such as to form fluorescent clusters stabilized from the dopant, each cluster forming a fluorescent emitter, the spectrum and the intensity of fluorescence of which correspond to a signature for encoding a data word, said stabilized clusters being obtained while minimizing the modification of the refractive index and the absorption coefficient of the medium in a wavelength range from visible to near infrared.2. The data recording method according to claim 1 , wherein the first source of light is calibrated such that:the rate of the pulses is greater than a second predetermined threshold for creating a temperature that is greater than a third temperature predetermined threshold in the irradiated area; andthe duration of each emitted ...

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD

Номер: US20130142025A1
Автор: Nakamura Yusuke
Принадлежит: Hitachi, Ltd.

An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates two-dimensional data by a two-dimensional encoding method in which a lower-limit value of a number of continuous ON/OFF pixels in an array in one direction of pixels in a two-dimensional spatial light modulator is K(K≧2, K: natural number); and a pickup that records the two-dimensional data, generated by the signal generation unit, on a hologram disc. 1. An optical information recording apparatus for recording information using holography , the apparatus comprising:a laser light source that generates a signal beam;a spatial light modulator that modulates the signal beam generated by the laser light source;a signal beam optical system that directs the signal beam modulated by the spatial light modulator to an optical information recording medium;a reference beam optical system that generates and directs a reference beam to the optical information recording medium;a signal generation unit that generates data by an encoding method in which a lower limit of a number of continuous ON/OFF pixels in an array in one direction of pixels in the spatial light modulator is K (K≧2, K: natural number); anda filter that limits a size of the signal beam entering the optical information recording medium to a size according to the lower-limit of the number of continuous pixels for the data generated by the signal generation unit.2. The optical information recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reference beam is generated from the laser light source that generates the signal beam claim 1 , and further comprising an angle controller that controls an incident angle of the reference beam generated from the laser light source into the optical information recording medium.3. An optical information recording ...

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

Lens cleaner and optical disc device

Номер: US20130142026A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

A lens cleaner capable of more surely cleaning grime off from an objective lens is provided. A lens cleaner of the present invention includes first and second lens cleaning portions. The first lens cleaning portion is provided to be brought into contact with a lens protector when the lens cleaner is rotated, to cause an objective lens to be away from a recording or reproducing position against an elastic force of an elastic member. The second lens cleaning portion is provided on an upstream side in a rotation direction relative to the first lens cleaning portion. The second lens cleaning portion is provided to pass above the lens protector while the objective lens is away from the recording or reproducing position, and to be brought into contact with the objective lens when the objective lens returns to the recording or reproducing position by the elastic force of the elastic member.

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06-06-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM

Номер: US20130142028A1
Принадлежит: SONY CORPORATION

The present disclosure relates to an optical recording medium and a manufacturing method for an optical recording medium capable of obtaining an appropriate reproduction signal, as a bar code-shaped recording region (BCA) on an optical recording medium. 1. An optical recording medium formed with a bar code-shaped reflection pattern by forming a high reflection rate region and a low reflection rate region , which appear alternately when seen in a track line direction , in such a state that each is continuous in a track pitch direction , the optical recording medium comprising a recording region in which information is recorded with the reflection pattern ,wherein the low reflection rate region is formed with a pit string, andthe high reflection rate region and the low reflection rate region are formed to satisfy: S+M/2≦0.6H, where a signal level of a reproduction signal obtained from a reflection light in the high reflection rate region is denoted as “H”, a signal level of a reproduction signal obtained from a reflection light in the low reflection rate region is denoted as “S”, and a degree of modulation of the reproduction signal obtained from the reflection light in the low reflection rate region is denoted as “M”.2. The optical recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the optical recording medium is a disk-shaped optical recording medium claim 1 , and the high reflection rate region and the low reflection rate region are formed such that each is continuous radially in a radial direction which is the track pitch direction claim 1 , whereby the bar code-shaped reflection pattern is formed.3. The optical recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein reproduction is performed with a laser light having a wavelength of 405 nm emitted by an optical system of which NA is 0.85 claim 1 , andin the low reflection rate region, a spatial frequency in the track line direction is formed with pit strings of 1667 lines/mm or more.4. The optical recording medium according ...

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20-06-2013 дата публикации

RECORDING MEDIUM FOR LONG-TERM DATA RETENTION, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

Номер: US20130155825A1
Автор: Lee Hyck-jin
Принадлежит:

Provided are recording media, recording/reproducing apparatuses, and recording methods for use in long-term data retention. Recording medium information may be copied and stored in a new information zone in a data area. Accordingly, if medium recognition of a lead-in area and/or a lead-out area fails, a recording medium may be recognized using the data recorded in the new information zone. 1. A recording medium comprising a lead-in area , a data area , and a lead-out area ,wherein the data area comprises:a non-recording zone allocated adjacent to at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area; andan information zone allocated at an inner side of the non-recording zone and toward a center of the data area, the information zone for recording information about the recording medium.2. The recording medium of claim 1 , wherein the non-recording zone is allocated adjacent to each of the lead-in area and the lead-out area.3. The recording medium of claim 2 , wherein the information zone is allocated at an inner side of the non-recording zone adjacent to the lead-in area.4. The recording medium of claim 2 , wherein the information zone is allocated at an inner side of the non-recording zone adjacent to the lead-out area.5. The recording medium of claim 1 , wherein the information about the recording medium is recorded in at least one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area and is also copied and stored in the information zone.6. The recording medium of claim 1 , wherein the non-recording zone covers about 30% of the recording medium from its inner and/or outer circumference.7. The recording medium of claim 6 , wherein the information zone is not allocated in the 30% of the recording medium from its inner and/or outer circumference.8. A recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:an optical pickup configured to irradiate light onto a recording medium to record data thereon;a memory configured to store information about ranges of a valid data area and a new ...

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27-06-2013 дата публикации

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WRITING DATA TO AN OPTICAL DISC

Номер: US20130163396A1
Автор: Park Sang-jun

Provided are a method of optical writing on a disc and a device adopting the method. The method of optical writing includes initially driving a laser diode (LD) at a preset reference value corresponding to a target output, detecting an actual output power by monitoring light output by the LD, and comparing the actual output power to the target output power. The method further includes compensating the reference value and writing data to the optical disc using the compensated reference value. 1. A method of writing data to an optical disc , the method comprising:initially driving a laser diode (LD) at a preset reference value corresponding to a target output power for writing data to an optical disc;detecting an actual output power by monitoring light output by the LD;comparing the actual output power to the target output power and compensating the preset reference value based on the comparison; andwriting data to the optical disc by driving the LD using the compensated reference value.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising obtaining lead-in information of the optical disc before the LD is initially driven.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein claim 1 , during the initially driving of the LD claim 1 , the LD is controlled such that light from the LD is not focused on the optical disc.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preset reference value of the target output power is set by a manufacturer of the optical disc.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the actual output power and the compensating of the preset reference value are repeatedly performed a plurality of times.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the compensating of the reference value further comprises obtaining a characteristic function indicating changes of actual output powers of the LD according to changes of the reference value.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preset reference value of the target output power is included in a look-up table that is stored in a memory of an ...

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27-06-2013 дата публикации

LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT FILM, PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION, OPTICAL ELEMENT USING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT FILM, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION WRITING/READING DEVICE

Номер: US20130163399A1
Принадлежит: Asahi Glass Company, Limited

To provide a liquid crystal alignment film having a sufficient alignment-regulating power and high resistance against blue laser beam and having, at the same time, excellent adhesion, and an optical element using it. A liquid crystal alignment film obtainable by bonding, by chemisorption to a substrate, an alignment-regulating precursor which undergoes anisotropic decomposition by irradiation with polarized ultraviolet light, and irradiating the alignment-regulating precursor bonded to the substrate, with polarized ultraviolet light, to let it undergo anisotropic decomposition and exhibit an alignment-regulating power. 1. A liquid crystal alignment film obtainable by bonding , by chemisorption to a surface of a substrate , an alignment-regulating precursor which undergoes anisotropic decomposition by irradiation with polarized ultraviolet light , and irradiating the alignment-regulating precursor bonded to the substrate , with polarized ultraviolet light , to let it undergo anisotropic decomposition and exhibit an alignment-regulating power.5. The liquid crystal alignment film according to claim 1 , wherein the surface of the substrate is divided into a plurality of regions claim 1 , and in every region claim 1 , a predetermined alignment-regulating power is imparted.6. A process for producing a liquid crystal alignment film claim 1 , which comprises:a bonding step of contacting, to a substrate, a solution containing an alignment-regulating precursor which undergoes anisotropic decomposition by irradiation with polarized ultraviolet light, to bond the alignment-regulating precursor to the substrate by chemisorption,a cleaning step of cleaning the substrate with a solvent to remove the alignment-regulating precursor not bonded to the substrate, anda photo-alignment step of irradiating the alignment-regulating precursor bonded to the substrate, with polarized ultraviolet light, to let it undergo anisotropic decomposition and exhibit an alignment-regulating power.8. ...

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27-06-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND OPTICAL POWER CONTROL METHOD

Номер: US20130163401A1
Автор: HORI Shinya
Принадлежит: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

An optical disc apparatus includes: a light source; a power detection portion that detects optical power of light emitted from the light source; a temperature detection portion that detects an ambient temperature of the power detection portion; a storage portion in which information relating to a temperature drift characteristic of the power detection portion is stored; and a control portion that controls the optical power while performing a temperature correction relating to the power detection portion by using the information stored in the storage portion. In the optical disc apparatus, the information stored in the storage portion is updated. 1. An optical power control method in which a power detection portion that detects optical power of light emitted from a light source is used to control the optical power , the method comprising:a first step of acquiring a temperature drift characteristic of the power detection portion by acquiring an output value of the power detection portion at each of two or more timings at which an ambient temperature of the power detection portion has different values from each other;a second step of, based on the temperature drift characteristic, determining whether or not a gain of the power detection portion should be changed;a third step of, if the gain is determined not to be changed, determining to perform a temperature correction relating to the power detection portion based on the temperature drift characteristic previously acquired and, if the gain is determined to be changed, determining to newly acquire a temperature drift characteristic and perform the temperature correction relating to the power detection portion based on the newly acquired temperature drift characteristic; anda fourth step of performing the control of the optical power while performing the temperature correction based on the temperature drift characteristic determined to be used for the temperature correction and on a measured ambient temperature of the ...

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04-07-2013 дата публикации

Objective lens element

Номер: US20130170042A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

An objective lens element having excellent compatibility with optical discs having different base material thicknesses is provided. The objective lens element has optically functional surfaces on an incident side and an exit side. At least either one of the optically functional surfaces on the incident side and the exit side includes a diffraction portion which satisfies at least either one of the following formulas (1) and (2): θ 1 ×θ 2 <0 (“×” represents multiplication)  (1), (sin θ 2 )/λ 2 =−(sin θ 1 )/λ 1   (2), where θ 1 is the diffraction angle of a light beam having a diffraction order providing the maximum diffraction efficiency at the wavelength λ 1 , and θ 2 is the diffraction angle of a light beam having a diffraction order providing the maximum diffraction efficiency at the wavelength λ 2 .

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18-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP THEREFOR

Номер: US20130182547A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI MEDIA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

When an optical pickup used for an optical disk device is formed, the optical pickup includes a stepping motor which drives a lens used to correct for spherical aberration, and the stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface (upper part) where the stepping motor faces the optical disk. In addition, the stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface (lower part) opposite the surface where the stepping motor faces the optical disk. 1. An optical disk device which reads/writes information by rotating an optical disk and irradiating the optical disk with a laser beam from an optical pickup , wherein ,the optical pickup includes a stepping motor which drives a lens used to correct for spherical aberration; andthe stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface where the stepping motor faces the optical disk.2. The optical disk device according to claim 1 , wherein:the stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface opposite the surface where the stepping motor faces the optical disk.3. The optical disk device according to claim 1 , wherein:a printed wiring board which serves as a top cover is used at least a part of a surface of a housing which houses the optical pickup, the surface facing the optical disk; anda component disposed in the optical pickup is sealed by the printed wiring board.4. An optical pickup for an optical disk device that reads/writes information by rotating an optical disk and irradiating the optical disk with a laser beam from the optical pickup claim 1 , wherein claim 1 ,the optical pickup includes a stepping motor which drives a lens used to correct for spherical aberration; andthe stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface where the stepping motor faces the optical disk.5. The optical pickup according to claim 4 , wherein:the ...

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18-07-2013 дата публикации

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OPTICAL SOURCE DRIVER

Номер: US20130182548A1
Автор: Cho Kang-soo

A device and method for controlling a driving current with respect to an optical source of an optical disc drive are provided. The method includes changing a characteristic of a high frequency component based on a change in the peripheral temperature of on optical pickup device, modulating the driving current using the high frequency component, and applying the modulated driving current to the optical source. 1. A method of controlling an optical output , the method comprising:generating a driving current for an optical source of an optical pickup device;changing a characteristic of a high frequency component based on a change of a peripheral temperature of the optical pickup device;modulating the driving current using the changed high frequency component; andapplying the modulated driving current to the optical source.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the driving current comprises a reading current used to read information from an optical disc.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic of the high frequency component that is changed is an amplitude.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amplitude is increased in response to an increase in the peripheral temperature.5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the amplitude is decreased in response to a decrease in the peripheral temperature.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic of the high frequency component is non-linearly changed according to a change of the peripheral temperature.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic of the high frequency component is changed in response to the peripheral temperature being changed from a predetermined room temperature.8. An optical disc drive comprising:an optical pickup device comprising an optical source;a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature signal from the optical pickup device;a temperature detection unit configured to detect a peripheral temperature of the optical disc drive using the temperature signal sensed by the ...

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18-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS

Номер: US20130182550A1
Автор: Sato Minoru
Принадлежит: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

An optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser light source to emit a laser beam; an object lens to irradiate an optical recording medium with the laser beam; a photodetector to receive a reflected light of the laser beam reflected by the optical recording medium; a semitransparent mirror interposed on an optical path between the laser light source and the object lens, to reflect the laser beam in a direction of the object lens and transmit it in a direction of the photodetector; and an astigmatism adding member interposed on an optical path between the semitransparent mirror and the photodetector, to add astigmatism to the reflected light, wherein the astigmatism adding member includes control film having first transmittance for polarization component in first direction contained in the reflected light is substantially equal to second transmittance for polarization component in second direction perpendicular to the first direction contained in the reflected light. 1. An optical pickup apparatus comprising:a laser light source configured to emit a laser beam;an object lens configured to irradiate an optical recording medium with the laser beam;a photodetector configured to receive a reflected light of the laser beam reflected by the optical recording medium;a semitransparent mirror interposed on an optical path between the laser light source and the object lens, the semitransparent mirror configured to reflect the laser beam in a direction of the object lens and transmit the reflected light in a direction of the photodetector; andan astigmatism adding member interposed on an optical path between the semitransparent mirror and the photodetector, the astigmatism adding member configured to add astigmatism to the reflected light, whereinthe astigmatism adding member includes a control film having a first transmittance for a polarization component in a first direction contained in the reflected light and a second transmittance for a polarization component in a second ...

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18-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP THEREFOR

Номер: US20130182551A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI MEDIA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

When an optical pickup used an optical disk device is formed, a PWB (Printed Wiring Board) which serves as a top cover is used at at least a part of a surface of a housing which houses the optical pickup, the surface facing an optical disk. The PWB (Printed Wiring Board) is adapted to seal components inside the optical pickup, and to reduce the flexure of FPC (Flexible Printed Circuits). Moreover, the printed wiring board is provided with a connector which allows the connection of FPC for connection to circuits outside the optical pickup. 1. An optical disk device which reads/writes information by rotating an optical disk and irradiating the optical disk with a laser beam from an optical pickup , wherein ,a printed wiring board which serves as a top cover is used at at least a part of a surface of a housing which houses the optical pickup, the surface facing the optical disk; anda component disposed in the optical pickup is sealed by the printed wiring board.2. The optical disk device according to claim 1 , whereinthe printed wiring board is provided with a connector which allows the connection of a wiring member for connection to circuits outside the optical pickup.3. An optical pickup for an optical disk device that reads/writes information by rotating an optical disk and irradiating the optical disk with a laser beam from the optical pickup claim 1 , wherein claim 1 ,a printed wiring board which serves as a top cover is used at at least a part of a surface of a housing which houses the optical pickup, the surface facing the optical disk; anda component disposed in the optical pickup is sealed by the printed wiring board.4. The optical pickup according to claim 3 , whereinthe printed wiring board is provided with a connector which allows the connection of a wiring member for connection to circuits outside the optical pickup. The present application claims priority from Japanese patent application serial no. JP2012-005190, filed on Jan. 13, 2012, the content of ...

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18-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MODULE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

Номер: US20130182997A1
Принадлежит: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.

An object of the present invention is to provide an optical waveguide module which has a small optical coupling loss between the light element and the optical waveguide and can perform high-quality optical communication, a method for producing the optical waveguide module with high efficiency, and an electronic apparatus which includes the optical waveguide module and can perform high-quality optical communication, and the present invention provides an optical waveguide module including: an optical waveguide including a core portion, a clad portion that is provided to cover a side surface of the core portion, and an optical path-converting unit that is provided partway along the core portion or on an extended line of the core portion and that converts an optical path of the core portion to the outside of the clad portion; an optical element that is provided over the clad portion; a circuit board that is provided between the optical waveguide and the optical element and has a through-hole formed along an optical path connecting between the optical path-converting unit and the optical element; and a sealing portion that is transparent and is formed in a gap between the optical element and the circuit board; wherein a part of the sealing portion is inserted into the through-hole, and an inserted portion of the sealing portion functions as a lens for converging signal light passing though the optical path. 1. An optical waveguide module including:an optical waveguide including a core portion, a clad portion that is provided to cover a side surface of the core portion, and an optical path-converting unit that is provided partway along the core portion or on an extended line of the core portion and that converts an optical path of the core portion to the outside of the clad portion;an optical element that is provided over the clad portion;a circuit board that is provided between the optical waveguide and the optical element and has a through-hole formed along an optical ...

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL READ/WRITE APPARATUS

Номер: US20130188465A1
Автор: YUBA Akinori
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corporation

In an embodiment, an optical read/write apparatus performs both the operation of writing data on an optical disc and the operation of reading data written on the disc. The apparatus includes: a motor which drives the disc; a first optical pickup which irradiates the disc with a first light beam, thereby writing data on the disc; a second optical pickup which irradiates the disc with a second light beam and detects the second light beam reflected from the disc, thereby reading the data written by the first pickup on the disc; an evaluation section which obtains a distortion evaluation value of a signal waveform representing the reflected light detected by the second pickup while the disc is being driven by the motor; and a control section which controls, based on the distortion evaluation value, the power of the first light beam emitted from the first pickup. 1. An optical read/write apparatus which performs both the operation of writing data on an optical storage medium and the operation of reading data that has been written on the storage medium , the apparatus comprising:a motor which drives the optical storage medium;a first optical pickup which irradiates the optical storage medium with a first light beam, thereby writing data on the optical storage medium;a second optical pickup which irradiates the optical storage medium with a second light beam and detects the second light beam that has been reflected from the optical storage medium, thereby reading the data that has been written by the first optical pickup on the optical storage medium;an evaluation section which obtains a distortion evaluation value of a signal waveform representing the reflected light that has been detected by the second optical pickup while the optical storage medium is being driven by the motor; anda control section which controls, based on the distortion evaluation value, the power of the first light beam emitted from the first optical pickup.2. The optical read/write apparatus of claim ...

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS

Номер: US20130188466A1
Принадлежит: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a laser-light-source unit to emit a laser beam having a first or second wavelength selectively; an objective lens; a photodetector; a light-splitting unit to split first and second laser beams respectively emitted from the laser-light-source unit and an optical-recording medium according to a wavelength and polarization direction, and guide the first and second laser beams to the lens and photodetector, respectively; and a quarter-wave plate arranged between the light-splitting unit and lens to convert the laser beams having the first and second wavelengths incident thereon through the light-splitting unit, from linearly-polarized light to circularly-polarized light and from linearly-polarized light to elliptically-polarized light, respectively, the laser beam having the second wavelength being incident, as first linearly-polarized light, on the light-splitting unit, and the light-splitting unit performing phase shift for the laser beam having the second wavelength incident thereon through the quarter-wave plate to reduce a first-linearly-polarized-light component. 1. An optical pickup apparatus comprising:a laser light source unit including first and second laser light sources configured to emit laser beams having first and second wavelengths, respectively, the laser light source unit configured to emit the laser beam having the first wavelength or the laser beam having the second wavelength in a selective manner;an objective lens configured to condense the laser beam emitted from the laser light source unit on an optical recording medium;a photodetector configured to detect the laser beam reflected by the optical recording medium;a light splitting unit configured to split the laser beam emitted from the laser light source unit and the laser beam reflected by the optical recording medium in accordance with a wavelength and a polarization direction, and guide the laser beam emitted from the laser light source unit to the ...

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP

Номер: US20130188467A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI MEDIA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

An optical pickup which excels in assembly workability and which can increase the drive force generated in a focusing coil is provided. The optical pickup has an objective lens, a lens holder holding the objective lens, and a first and a second focusing coil wound around the lens holder. The first focusing coil includes an upper part wound about a central axis extending in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part. The second focusing coil includes an upper part wound, in a wiring system separate from the first focusing coil, about a central axis extending in parallel with the optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part. 1. An optical pickup for an optical disk drive , comprising:an objective lens focusing light on an optical disc;a lens holder holding the objective lens;a focusing coil wound around the lens holder; anda supporting member supporting the lens holder,wherein the focusing coil includes a first focusing coil and a second focusing coil,the first focusing coil includes an upper part wound about a central axis extending in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part via a connection line, andthe second focusing coil includes an upper part wound, in a wiring system separate from the first focusing coil, about a central axis extending in parallel with the optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part via a connection line.2. The optical pickup according to claim 1 , wherein the lower part of the first focusing coil and the lower part of the second focusing coil serve to effect both focusing operation and tilting operation.3. The optical pickup according to claim 1 , wherein each of the lower part of the first focusing coil and the lower part of the second focusing coil is wound around a part of the lens holder claim 1 , the part of the lens holder projecting downward along an optical ...

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE USING OPTICAL PICKUP

Номер: US20130194905A1
Принадлежит: HITACHI MEDIA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

In an optical pickup for an optical disk device using BD, DVD and CD as recording media, simplification of constitutional elements is promoted. The optical pickup includes a dual wavelength type laser beam source generating laser beams for DVD and CD, a single wavelength type laser beam source generating a laser beam for BD, and a first wave plate converting the laser beam for BD generated from the laser beam source concerned into circular polarization. It further includes a second wave plate converting the laser beam for DVD generated from the dual wavelength type laser beam source into 45-degree linear polarization. Favorable recording and reproduction are performed by radiating the laser beam to the recording medium concerned as the circular polarization for BD and the 45-degree linear polarization for DVD. 1. An optical pickup used in an optical disk device radiating laser beams to mutually different kinds of first , second and third optical disks to read out information data from the disks , comprising:a first laser beam source generating a laser beam of a first wavelength to be radiated to the first optical disk;a second laser beam source generating a laser beam of a second wavelength which is longer in wavelength than the laser beam of the first wavelength and is to be radiated to the second optical disk, and a laser beam of a third wavelength which is longer in wavelength than the second wavelength and is to be radiated to the third optical disk;a second wave plate letting the laser beam of the second wavelength generated from the second laser beam source input, giving the laser beam of the second wavelength a phase difference and then letting the laser beam of the second wavelength output, and letting the laser beam of the third wavelength input and letting the laser beam of the third wavelength output;a first wave plate letting the laser beam of the first wavelength generated from the first laser beam source input, converting the laser beam of the first ...

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

METHOD AND DEVICE TO IMPROVE START-UP PERFORMANCE OF A MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL DISC

Номер: US20130201807A1
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

A method comprising recording data related to a start-up procedure on at least one of a plurality of recording layers disposed on an optical record carrier for reading back the recorded data during subsequent start-ups, the selection of the at least one recording layer based on properties of the at least one recording layer is disclosed. The technique reduces the optical record carrier start-up time and is useful for DVD, HD-DVD and BD recorders and/or players. 1. A method for recording data related to a start-up procedure on at least one of a plurality of recording layers disposed on an optical record carrier , the method comprising:selecting at least one recording layer based on one or more properties of the at least one recording layer, the properties of the at least one recording layer on which the selection is based including at least the repeated-read stability of recorded data; andrecording the data related to the start-up procedure on the selected at least one recording layer for reading back the recorded data during subsequent start-ups.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said repeated read-stability comprises an ability to read data from the optical record carrier for a predetermined number of cycles at a predetermined read power.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the properties of the at least one recording layer on which the selection is based includes theread-out speed of the recorded data.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein one of the plurality of the recording layers is a first recording layer disposed above a first surface of a substrate and wherein the first recording layer is present adjacent to a substantially thick metal layer.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data related to the start-up procedure is at least one of:table of contents of the recorded data;information on a menu structure of the recorded data; andan executable application.6. A method for recording data related to a start-up procedure on at least one of a plurality of recording ...

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD

Номер: US20130201808A1
Автор: ISHII Toshiki
Принадлежит: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from an optical-information storage medium where an interference pattern between a signal beam and a reference beam is recorded as page data by being angle-multiplexed, the optical-information reproducing apparatus, including a light-source for emitting a light beam, an optical element for splitting the light beam into the reference beam and the signal beam, an angle-controlling element for controlling the reference beam into a direction which is perpendicular to the angle-multiplexed direction, the reference beam being guided to enter the optical-information storage medium, an optical detector for detecting a reproduced image which is reproduced by the reference beam, and a position-controlling circuit for controlling position relationship between the reference beam and the optical-information storage medium. 1. An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from an optical-information storage medium where an interference pattern between a signal beam and a reference beam is recorded as page data by being angle-multiplexed ,said optical-information reproducing apparatus, comprising:a light-source for emitting a light beam;an optical element for splitting said light beam into said reference beam and said signal beam;an angle-controlling element for controlling said reference beam into a direction which is perpendicular to said angle-multiplexed direction, said reference beam being guided to enter said optical-information storage medium;an optical detector for detecting a reproduced image which is reproduced by said reference beam; anda position-controlling circuit for controlling position relationship between said reference beam and said optical-information storage medium, wherein,said optical-information storage medium is illuminated with said reference beam in a state where angle of said reference beam is shifted from an angle which is suitable for said reproduction ...

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

RECORDABLE OPTICAL DISC, RECORDING DEVICE, AND RECORDING METHOD

Номер: US20130201813A1
Принадлежит:

The present invention is to realize a proper inner zone layout in a quadruple-layer disk. 1. A recordable optical disk comprising:four recording layers configured to be provided over a disk substrate; andan optically-transparent layer configured to be formed on a laser-incident surface side, whereinfour test areas for laser power control are each provided in an inner circumference side area closer to an inner circumference than a data zone in which user data is recorded in a respective one of the recording layers, andthe test areas of a first pair and the test areas of a second pair are so disposed as to be prevented from overlapping with each other in a layer direction if two test areas closer to a disk outer circumference, of the four test areas, are defined as the first pair and two test areas closer to a disk inner circumference, of the four test areas, are defined as the second pair.2. The recordable optical disk according to claim 1 , whereinthe two test areas of the first pair have the same consumption direction of the test area, and are so disposed that parts to be used next in the test areas are prevented from overlapping with each other in the layer direction.3. The recordable optical disk according to claim 2 , whereinthe two test areas of the second pair have the same consumption direction of the test area opposite to the consumption direction of the test area in the first pair, and are so disposed that parts to be used next in the test areas are prevented from overlapping with each other in the layer direction.4. The recordable optical disk according to claim 2 , whereinthe two test areas of the first pair have the same consumption direction of the test area as a first consumption direction, and the test area in the recording layer closer to the disk substrate, of the two test areas of the first pair, is located ahead of the test area in the recording layer closer to a laser-incident surface, of the two test areas of the first pair, in the first ...

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

ATTENUATED PRIMARY REFLECTION INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT

Номер: US20130202249A1
Принадлежит: IXBLUE

An integrated optical circuit includes a substrate having an input face, an output face, a lower face and an upper face, at least one optical waveguide having a first waveguide end located on the input face of the substrate and a second waveguide end located on the output face of the substrate. The lower face of the substrate includes a first part that is planar and parallel to the upper face and an optical block, the optical block being positioned in the median plane and in the incidence plane, the optical block forming a protrusion at least at the primary reflection point of the integrated optical circuit with respect to the first planar part of the lower face and the optical block being capable of receiving and attenuating at least one non-guided optical beam propagating on the optical path of a primary reflection. 1. An integrated optical circuit comprising:{'b': 10', '1', '2', '4', '3', '5', '4', '3', '5', '1', '2', '3', '4, 'a substrate () including an input face (), an output face (), a lower face (), an upper face () and two side faces (), said lower face (), upper face () and side faces () extending between the input face () and the output face (), the upper face () being planar and opposite to the lower face ();'}{'b': 6', '3', '6', '1', '2, 'at least one optical waveguide () located in a plane parallel to the upper face (), said at least one optical waveguide () extending between said input face () and said output face ();'}{'b': 7', '1', '10', '8', '2', '10, 'at least one first waveguide end () located on the input face () of the substrate () and at least one second waveguide end () located on the output face () of the substrate ();'}{'b': 11', '7', '12', '14', '14', '14', '14', '10', '17', '3', '7', '8', '17', '18', '17', '7', '8', '13', '4', '17, 'i': a', 'b', 'c', 'a, 'said integrated optical circuit being capable of receiving an incident optical beam () on said first waveguide end (), of forming a guided optical beam () propagating in an optically ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

RECORD CARRIER OF THE OPTICAL TYPE AND A DEVICE FOR RECORDING AND/OR PLAYBACK FOR USE WITH SUCH A RECORD CARRIER

Номер: US20130215727A1
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

The invention relates to a record carrier of a disc-like optically inscribable type, having a preformed track in which an auxiliarily signal comprising a sequence of codes is recorded by means of a preformed track modulation. The codes comprise a sequence of address codes (AC) specifying the addresses of the track portions in which said address codes (AC) are recorded and special codes (SC). The special codes (SC) can be distinguished from said address codes (AC) and specify control data for controlling a recording by a recording device. The sequence can be obtained by replacing in a sequence of address codes (AC) with consecutive address values a plurality of said address by special codes (SC). The periodic pattern of address codes and special codes has a predetermined positional relationship with respect to a predetermined reference address. Such as for example a positional shift with respect to the start of a Lead-in area. The presence and or amount of such a shift may be used to represent additional control information or indicate the presence of area on a disc provided with such additional control information. 1. A record carrier of the disc-like optically inscribable type , having a preformed track in which an auxiliary signal comprising a sequence of codes is recorded by means of a preformed track modulation , which codes comprise a sequence of address codes (AC) specifying the addresses of the track portions in which said address codes (AC) are recorded and special codes (SC) which are distinguished from said address codes (AC) specifying control data for controlling a recording by a recording device and which sequence is obtained by replacing in a sequence of address codes (AC) with consecutive address values a plurality of said address by special codes (SC) , wherein , the said sequence comprises a periodic pattern of address codes and special codes which pattern has a predetermined positional relationship with respect to a predetermined reference address. ...

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY REPRODUCTION METHOD, DEMODULATION DEVICE AND DEMODULATION METHOD, AND OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION METHOD

Номер: US20130215730A1

The present invention relates to a reproduction device of a holographic memory capable of precisely reproducing multi-value phase information without being influenced by noise. This holographic memory reproduction device comprises: a hologram diffraction ray generation unit which irradiates a first reference ray to the holographic memory and generates a diffraction ray of the first hologram; a hologram generation unit which changes the phase of a second reference ray which may interfere with the diffraction ray of the first hologram and generates a second hologram from the diffraction ray of the first hologram and the second reference ray to which the phase has been changed; a detection unit which detects the intensity distribution of the second hologram; and a processing unit which demodulates the phase modulation signal or the space quadrature amplitude modulation signal on the basis of the intensity distribution. 115-. (canceled)16. A reproduction apparatus of a holographic memory in which a first hologram produced from reference light and signal light including a spatial phase modulation signal or a spatial quadrature amplitude modulation signal is recorded , the reproduction apparatus comprising:a hologram diffracted light production section that produces diffracted light of the first hologram by irradiating the holographic memory with first reference light;a hologram production section that changes a phase of second reference light capable of interfering with the diffracted light of the first hologram, and simultaneously produces a plurality of second holograms from the diffracted light of the first hologram and the second reference light of which the phase is changed;a detection section that detects an intensity distribution of each of the plurality of second holograms; anda processing section that demodulates the spatial phase modulation signal or the spatial quadrature amplitude modulation signal on the basis of the plurality of intensity distributions.17. ...

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29-08-2013 дата публикации

RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD

Номер: US20130223198A1
Принадлежит: SONY CORPORATION

There is provided an recording apparatus including a light irradiation unit, a reference-plane tracking control unit, a recording unit that executes recording on the recording medium by independently modulating first and second recording beams when the recording beams radiated by the first and second objective lenses are designated as the first and second recording beams, respectively, a recording-layer tracking control unit that performs tracking control of the first objective lens based on reflected light of a first servo beam and tracking control of the second objective lens based on reflected light of a second servo beam when the servo beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first servo beam and the servo beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second servo beam, and a control unit that controls the reference-plane tracking control unit, the recording-layer tracking control unit, and the recording unit. 1. A recording apparatus comprising:a light irradiation unit configured to have two objective lenses by which a reference-plane beam to be radiated to a reference plane and a recording beam and a servo beam to be radiated to a recording layer are incident as optical beams to be radiated to a recording medium having the reference plane on which a position guide is formed and the recording layer formed in a planar shape, and radiate the reference-plane beam, the recording beam, and the servo beam to the recording medium using the objective lenses;a reference-plane tracking control unit configured to perform tracking control of a first objective lens based on reflected light of a first reference-plane beam and tracking control of a second objective lens based on reflected light of a second reference-plane beam when the reference-plane beam radiated by the first objective lens in the light irradiation unit is designated as the first reference-plane beam and the reference-plane beam radiated by the second objective lens ...

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29-08-2013 дата публикации

OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE

Номер: US20130223201A1
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corporation

An objective lens capable of converging light of a used wavelength with a satisfactory aberration on a recording medium is provided. An objective lens for converging light of a predetermined wavelength λ on a recording medium satisfies the following condition: |CML|+|CMF|<0.03λ, where CML is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the objective lens, and CMF is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of off-axis light. 1. An objective lens for converging light of a predetermined wavelength λ on a recording medium , the objective lens satisfying the following condition:{'br': None, 'i': 'CML|+|CMF|<', '|0.03λ'}whereCML is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the objective lens, andCMF is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of off-axis light.2. The objective lens according to satisfying the following condition:{'br': None, 'i': 'CML|+|CMF|+|CMD|<', '|0.06λ'}whereCMD is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the recording medium.3. The objective lens according to claim 1 , wherein a wavefront aberration has a minimum value when the tilt of the objective lens is in a range larger than 0 degree and smaller than 1 degree.4. The objective lens according to claim 1 , wherein a third-order spherical aberration or a third-order astigmatism has a minimum value when the tilt of the objective lens is in a range larger than 0 degree and smaller than 1 degree.5. The objective lens according to claim 4 , wherein the minimum value of the third-order spherical aberration or the third-order astigmatism is smaller than 1/10 of a value of an on-axis third-order spherical aberration or an on-axis third-order astigmatism.6. The objective lens according to claim 1 , wherein the value of the on-axis third-order spherical aberration or the on-axis third-order astigmatism is larger than the half of a value of ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

QUICK ACCESS TO DISC MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

Номер: US20130229896A1
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

The invention relates to a method and a recording device for easy and quick access to record carrier management information stored on the record carrier itself. The invention further relates to a record carrier for use in such a method and recording device. 1. A record carrier comprising:a plurality of management areas for storing disc management information,a signal area comprising signals indicating whether or not the management areas are in use, each one of said signals being related to one of said management areas, wherein the signal area is located inside or adjacent to a first one of said plurality of management areas, and the signals are in the form of presence or absence of high frequency marks, the presence indicating that the related management area is in use.201. The record carrier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the record carrier has at least two information layers (L claim 1 ,L).3. The record carrier of claim 1 , wherein the signals are clusters on a record carrier claim 1 , said clusters comprising status marks for indicating a first status of said management areas and comprising no marks for indicating a second status of said areas for storing disc management information.4. The record carrier of claim 3 , wherein the first status indicates that the management areas are in use claim 3 , and the second status indicates that the management areas are not in use.5. The record carrier of claim 3 , wherein the signal area comprises a standard predefined number of clusters of the first one of said plurality of management areas.6. The record carrier of claim 5 , wherein:the clusters of the signal area are associated with corresponding management areas,the signals in the clusters indicate which of the management areas are filled, andthe number of clusters is equal to the number of management areas or the number of clusters is one less than the number of management areas.70011. The record carrier of claim 2 , wherein the disc management information for a first ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

PHOTO DETECTING ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL PICK-UP AND DISC DRIVE INCLUDING THE SAME

Номер: US20130229897A1
Автор: Jeong Jin-ho, Oh Jung-bae

Provided is a photo detecting element including a body with an optical sensor and an amplification unit for amplifying a signal output from the optical sensor. The photo detecting element includes a driving voltage port that applies a driving voltage to the amplification unit, a ground port that provides a ground for the amplification unit, and a plurality of output ports interposed between the driving voltage port and the ground port, and outputting a signal received from the amplification unit. The driving voltage port, ground port, and plurality of output ports are disposed on the same one side of the body. 1. A photo detecting element comprising:a body including an optical sensor and an amplification unit configured to amplify a signal output from the optical sensor;a driving voltage port disposed on one side of the body and configured to apply a driving voltage to the amplification unit;a ground port disposed on the one side of the body and configured to provide a ground for the amplification unit; anda plurality of output ports interposed between the driving voltage port and the ground port on the one side of the body, and configured to output a signal received from the amplification unit.2. The photo detecting element according to claim 1 , whereinthe plurality of output ports comprise a P-type differential output port and an N-type differential output port;the N-type differential output port being disposed close to the ground port; andthe P-type differential output port being disposed close to the driving voltage port.3. The photo detecting element according to further comprising:a gain controller included in the body and configured to control a gain of the amplification unit; anda plurality of control signal input ports disposed on another side of the body and configured to apply a control signal to the amplification unit.4. The photo detecting element according to claim 3 , wherein the plurality of control signal input ports comprise a serial clock signal ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Device, Optical Pickup Device, and Optical Information Recording/Reproducing Device

Номер: US20130229902A1
Принадлежит:

An optical pickup apparatus including an objective lens capable of enhancing temperature characteristics and wavelength characteristics, and which enables compatibility for three types of optical discs of BDs, DVDs, and CDs by using the objective lens in common, an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus, and an objective lens suitable for it. In a first optical path difference providing structure in which at least a first basic structure and a second basic structure are superimposed on each other, an amount of a level difference in an optical axis direction can be reduced, whereby it becomes possible to suppress the lowering of a diffraction efficiency when wavelength changes. Further, in the first basic structure and the second basic structure deterioration of the spherical aberration due to the change of the refractive index of the objective lens can be corrected by utilizing a phenomenon that the wavelength of the light source rises similarly due to a rise in the environmental temperature. 11122331212323. An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus which comprises a first light source for emitting a first light flux having a first wavelength λ (390 nm≦λ≦415 nm) , a second light source for emitting a second light flux having a second wavelength λ (630 nm≦λ≦670 nm) , and a third light source for emitting a third light flux having a third wavelength λ (760 nm≦λ≦820 nm) , and is configured to record and/or reproduce information for a BD including a protective substrate with a thickness t by using the first light flux , to record and/or reproduce information for a DVD including a protective substrate with a thickness t (t Подробнее

05-09-2013 дата публикации

LENS DRIVING UNIT AND OPTICAL PICKUP INCLUDING THE SAME

Номер: US20130229903A1
Принадлежит:

Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive that employs the lens driving unit. The lens driving unit includes a lens frame in which an object lens and a plurality of driving coils are installed, and a plurality of suspension wires connected to the driving coils. The lens frame also includes a plurality of winding posts disposed on opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend. According to various examples, coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts to electrically connect the driving coils to the suspension wires. 1. A lens driving unit comprising:a wire holder;a lens frame comprising an object lens and a plurality of driving coils;a plurality of suspension wires connected to the plurality of driving coils, wherein the suspension wires are fixed to the wire holder and are fixed to opposing side surfaces of the lens frame; anda plurality of winding posts disposed on the opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend,wherein coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts and are electrically connected to the suspension wires through connecting portions included in the winding posts.2. The lens driving unit of claim 1 , further comprising a terminal plate which includes the plurality of winding posts which are formed on the opposing sides of the lens claim 1 , and through holes through which ends of the suspension wires penetrate.3. The lens driving unit of claim 2 , wherein the winding posts and the through holes are arranged in a plane direction parallel to the opposing sides of the object lens.4. The lens driving unit of claim 3 , wherein the winding posts comprise a triangular pillar shape claim 3 , and the through holes are located inside a quadrangular area expanded from an area of the winding posts which includes the triangular pillar shape.5. The lens driving unit of claim 2 , ...

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05-09-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME

Номер: US20130229904A1
Принадлежит: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

A reproduction method for reproducing a rewritable and readable optical information storage medium in such a manner that an information recording layer is disclosed. The reproduction method comprising: reading setting information of reproduction laser power for each information recording layer of the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium, the setting information being stored in the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium; and setting, based on the setting information thus read, reproduction laser power for the information recording layer that is closest to a reproduction-laser-incident surface to be not less than 1.0 mW but less than 1.1 mW. 17-. (canceled)8. A reproduction method for reproducing a rewritable and readable optical information storage medium in such a manner that an information recording layer , in the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium , that is closest to a reproduction-laser-incident surface of the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium is read by irradiating thereto a reproduction laser having power lower than that of a reproduction laser for reading an information recording layer , in the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium , that is farthest from the reproduction-laser-incident surface , said reproduction method comprising:reading setting information of reproduction laser power for each information recording layer of the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium, the setting information being stored in the rewritable and readable optical information storage medium; andsetting, based on the setting information thus read, reproduction laser power for the information recording layer that is closest to the reproduction-laser-incident surface to be not less than 1.0 mW but less than 1.1 mW. This application is a continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 12/814,133, filed on Jun. 11, 2010, which is a continuation application of U ...

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19-09-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS

Номер: US20130242715A1
Автор: IMAIZUMI Yasukazu
Принадлежит: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

An optical pickup apparatus includes: first and second laser diodes to generate first and second laser beams, respectively; a first holder, made of metal, to incorporate the first laser diode; a second holder, made of metal, to incorporate the second laser diode; an objective lens; optical elements to guide the first and the second laser beam to the objective lens; a housing made of synthetic resin to house the first and the second holders, the objective lens, and the optical elements such that the first and the second holders are adjacent to each other; and a first heat-transfer gel filled in a first space between the first and the second holders, so as to transfer heat generated in the first laser diode from the first holder to the second holder as well as transfer the heat generated in the second laser diode from the second holder to the first holder. 1. An optical pickup apparatus comprising:a first laser diode configured to generate a first laser beam having a first wavelength;a first holder made of metal configured to incorporate the first laser diode;a second laser diode configured to generate a second laser beam, having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, in a manner complementary to the first laser beam;a second holder made of metal configured to incorporate the second laser diode;an objective lens configured to condense the first laser beam onto a signal recording layer of a first optical disc as well as condense the second laser beam onto a signal recording layer of a second optical disc of a standard different from a standard of the first optical disc;optical elements configured to guide the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the objective lens;a housing made of synthetic resin configured to house the first holder, the second holder, the objective lens, and the optical elements such that the first holder and the second holder are adjacent to each other; anda first heat-transfer gel filled in a first space between the first ...

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03-10-2013 дата публикации

TEST ELEMENT HAVING AN OPTICAL DATA STORAGE, DEVICE FOR READING THE OPTICAL DATA STORAGE OF THE TEST ELEMENT AND MEASURING SYSTEM THEREOF

Номер: US20130258832A1
Принадлежит: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.

A test element is disclosed for analyzing a human or animal body fluid sample. The test element includes a substrate carrying a test field with a reagent for effecting a detection reaction when exposed to the body fluid sample, and an optical data storage in which data regarding the test element, preferably calibration data, is stored. Accordingly, the data storage is a holographic data storage. A hologram reader also is disclosed for reading the data storage of such a test element. Moreover, a hologram label and a method for manufacturing a hologram label are disclosed, as is a medical product including a holographic data storage in which data regarding the product is stored. 1. A test element for measuring an analyte concentration in a human or animal body fluid sample , the test element comprising:a substrate carrying a test field with a reagent for effecting a detection reaction when exposed to the body fluid sample; anda holographic data storage in which data regarding the test strip is stored, wherein the holographic data storage comprises a plurality of holograms, each containing identical data regarding the test strip, and the plurality of holograms comprising holograms of a first kind and holograms of a second kind, and wherein illumination of the holograms of the first kind causes an image in a first location and illumination of the holograms of the second kind causes an image in a second location.2. The test element of claim 1 , wherein the holographic data storage comprises digital holograms.3. The test element of claim 1 , wherein the data stored by the holographic data storage is encoded in a two-dimensional dot matrix.4. The test element of claim 1 , wherein the holographic data storage is written by pixels that are arranged along sections of parallel arcs.5. A reader for reading an optical data storage of a test element claim 1 , the reader comprising:an optical sensor comprising an array of sensitive elements;a laser;and a collimating lens, wherein ...

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10-10-2013 дата публикации

Interchip communication using a dielectric waveguide

Номер: US20130265732A1
Принадлежит: Texas Instruments Inc

An apparatus is provided. There is a circuit assembly with a package substrate and an integrated circuit (IC). The package substrate has a microstrip line, and the IC is secured to the package substrate and is electrically coupled to the microstrip line. A circuit board is also secured to the package substrate. A dielectric waveguide is secured to the circuit board. The dielectric waveguide has a dielectric core that extends into a transition region located between the dielectric waveguide and the microstrip line, and the microstrip line is configured to form a communication link with the dielectric waveguide.

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24-10-2013 дата публикации

DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

Номер: US20130279318A1
Принадлежит: ZET Nanolaboratory, Ltd.

The invention provides for a recording method comprising the steps of modulating a first light beam; directing a second light beam to interfere with the first light beam to produce an interference pattern in a region of a recording medium; forming an optical device in the medium responsive to the interference pattern, wherein optical characteristics of the optical device are varied responsive to variations in the interference pattern. A method of playback, a recording and/or reading head and data carriers are also claimed. An example relates to a full diffraction analogy of gramophone recording. The interference of two beams, one of which is functionally linked to an audio signal, results in a change of the diffractive structure that instantly reflects the change of the input signal. On playback the diffracted light beam oscillates in the same way as the gramophone needle would vibrate. Another aspect of the disclosure relates to multilevel digital recording using holographic and/or diffractive structures. 1. A recording method comprising the steps of modulating a first light beam for recording purposes; directing a second light beam to interfere with the said first light beam to produce an interference pattern in the region of a recording medium; forming an optical device in the said medium responsive to the said interference pattern and wherein optical characteristics of the said optical device are varied responsive to variations in the said interference pattern.2. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second light beams comprise coherent light.3. A method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first and second light beams comprise laser light beams.4. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said first beam is modulated by a light modulator.5. A method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the light modulator comprises an acoustic-optic deflector or electro-optic or mechanical-optical or nonlinear optical modulator.6. Our method as claimed in claim 1 , ...

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24-10-2013 дата публикации

OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE

Номер: US20130279319A1
Принадлежит: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

An optical pickup device moves in a feed direction parallel to a radial direction of an optical disc rotating on an axis of rotation, and records or reproduces information on an information recording surface of the optical disc. The optical pickup device has a first light source that emits light of a first wavelength, a second light source that emits light of a second wavelength differing from the first wavelength, a first objective lens for focusing the light from the first light source onto the information recording surface, and a second objective lens for focusing the light from the second light source onto the information recording surface. The first and second objective lenses and the first light source are disposed in a plane that passes through the axis of rotation and is parallel to the feed direction. 1. An optical pickup device that moves in a feed direction parallel to a radial direction of an optical disc rotating around an axis of rotation , and records or reproduces information on an information recording surface of the optical disc , the optical pickup device comprising:a first light source for emitting light of a first wavelength, the first light source being an optical component;a second light source for emitting light of a second wavelength differing from the first wavelength, the second light source being an optical component separate from the first light source;a first objective lens for focusing the light from the first light source onto the information recording surface;a second objective lens for focusing the light from the second light source onto the information recording surface; andan optical system for guiding the light from the first and second light sources to the first and second objective lenses, respectively; whereinthe first and second objective lenses and the first light source are disposed in a plane that passes through the axis of rotation and is parallel to the feed direction;the second light source is disposed adjacent the ...

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