Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Optec Design Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Sanyo Electric Co.

Ryoichi Kawasaki

Tohru Hotta

Hiroyuki Shindo

Masami Shimizu

Yasuhiro Ishii

Hiroyuki Ichikawa

Shintaro Hirose

Kenichirou Kawabuchi

Kozo Suzuki

Kenji Kan

Noriyoshi Ooyama

Mitsuhiro Hashimoto

Tomio Uchida

Noriyoshi Oyama

Chikashi Yoshinaga

Tetsuhisa Hosokawa

Yoshitaka Hotta

Shigeki Masaka

Kouzou Suzuki

In the present invention, to improve CD read/write characteristics having poor image height characteristics, a third light emitting source emitting a third laser beam for CD is disposed on an optical axis of an objective lens. Thereby, the third laser beam emitted from the third light emitting source travels along the optical axis of the objective lens, thus generating no coma aberration in the third laser beam. Furthermore, in the present invention, a second light emitting source emitting a second laser beam for DVD and a first light emitting source emitting a first laser beam for BD are disposed across the third light emitting source. Thereby the phase propagation directions of coma aberrations in the first and second laser beams coincide with each other. Adjustment of the coma aberration in one of the laser beams enables the coma aberration in the other laser beam to be adjusted.

Light emitting device, optical pickup apparatus and method for manufacturing the same

An optical member driving apparatus comprising: a holding member configured to have an optical member mounted thereon; a driving unit assembly configured to be capable of driving the holding member; a connecting member configured to connect the holding member and the driving unit assembly; and a jointing member configured to joint the connecting member and either or both of the holding member and the driving unit assembly.

Optical disc apparatus which includes an optical pickup apparatus that includes an optical member driving apparatus

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a three-wavelength-laser diode including first-, second-, and third-laser elements to emit first-, second-, and third laser beams having first, second, and third wavelengths, respectively, the three laser elements housed in the same case; an objective lens to focus the three laser beams onto first- to third-optical-disc-signal-recording layers, respectively; a first photodetector to be irradiated with first-return light reflected from the first-optical-disc-signal-recording layer, a second photodetector to be irradiated with second- and third-return lights respectively reflected from the second- and third-optical-disc-signal-recording layers; a polarizing-beam splitter to reflect the three laser beams toward the lens, and allow the three return lights having passed through the lens to pass therethrough; a semitransparent mirror on which the three return lights having passed through the polarizing-beam splitter are incident, and which guide the first-return light toward the first photodetector and the second- and third-return lights toward the second photodetector.

Optical pickup apparatus

An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of a synthetic resin configured to focus laser light emitted from the laser diode to a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and a collimating lens having a diffraction grating and arranged in an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens, the collimating lens being so moved in an optical axis direction of the laser light as to correct spherical aberration occurring in response to a change in temperature when performing a recording operation for the optical disc, and the collimating lens correcting by the diffraction grating chromatic aberration occurring when switching from the recording operation to a reproducing operation for the optical disc.

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a first-objective lens; a second-objective lens; a lens holder including a first-lens barrel having the first-objective lens mounted on an end face thereof and a second-lens barrel having the second-objective lens mounted on an end face thereof; an actuator unit having the lens holder mounted thereon; and a housing having the actuator unit mounted thereon, the first and second objective lenses each being mounted on the lens holder such that a direction, in which wavefront of coma aberration on each lens face is most advanced in phase, is aligned with a radial direction of an information-recording medium, the actuator unit being mounted on the housing such that an optical axis of the first-objective lens is inclined in the radial direction at an inclination angle of the axis toward a recording surface of the medium required to cancel coma aberration of the first-objective lens to the surface.

Optical pickup apparatus and manufacturing method of optical pickup apparatus

An optical pickup apparatus includes an objective lens having a numeric aperture and an incident face. An antireflection coating is formed on the incident face. A collimating lens converts laser light from a laser diode into parallel light, and causes the parallel light to be made incident on the incident face through the antireflection coating. The thickness of the antireflection coating causes a transmittance of laser light that enters the objective lens to be: set at a first predetermined transmittance value, when the numeric aperture is between zero and a first predetermined numeric aperture value; set to correlate linearly with the numeric aperture when the numeric aperture is between the first predetermined numeric aperture value and a second predetermined numeric aperture value; and set at a second predetermined transmittance value, when the numeric aperture is between the second predetermined numeric aperture value and a third predetermined numeric aperture value.

An optical pickup apparatus, which reads signals recorded on first and second signal recording layers of an optical disc, includes: a laser diode; an objective lens to condense a laser beam to the first and second signal recording layers; and a collimating lens disposed in a light path of the laser beam between the laser diode and the objective lens and configured to correct a spherical aberration by moving in a light axis direction of the laser beam, and the objective lens includes a bifocal lens and is configured such that a second focal point does not coincide in position with the second signal recording layer when a first focal point coincides in position with the first signal recording layer, and the first focal point does not coincide in position with the first signal recording layer when the second focal point coincides in position with the second signal recording layer.

An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode having a first-laser element, which emits a first-laser beam, and a second-laser element, which emits a second-laser beam having a wavelength shorter than a wavelength of the first-laser beam, arranged in the same package; an objective lens to condense the first- and second-laser beams emitted from the laser diode to signal-recording layers of first- and second-optical discs, respectively, the second-optical disc being of a standard different from a standard of the first-optical disc; and a collimating lens arranged in an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens, the collimating lens configured to change the first- and second-laser beams from divergent light to parallel light, the collimating lens being inclined with respect to optical axes of the first- and second-laser beams so that astigmatism in the first- and second-laser beams is corrected.

Optical pickup apparatus with astigmatism correcting collimating lens

An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating configured to diffract laser light from a laser diode so that signals recorded in first and second optical discs are selectively reproduced, thicknesses of protective layers between surfaces and signal recording surfaces of the first and second optical discs being different from each other; a polarization beam splitter configured to divide laser light from the diffraction grating into first and second laser lights whose light amounts are substantially the same; a first objective lens configured to focus the first laser light onto the signal recording surface of the first optical disc; a second objective lens configured to focus the second laser light onto the signal recording surface of the second optical disc; and a photodetector configured to be applied with return lights of the first and second laser lights reflected from the signal recording surfaces of the first and second optical discs.

An optical pickup apparatus comprising: an objective lens formed so that a first and second laser beams different in wavelength are respectively focused onto signal recording layers of a first and second optical discs; and a photodetector including a square-shaped light-receiving portion for being irradiated with return light, as a spot, of the first or second laser beam respectively reflected from the signal recording layers of the first or second optical discs, to generate a focus error signal, a length of a diagonal line of the light-receiving portion being substantially equal to a longer diameter of an elliptical spot formed in a direction of the diagonal line when the focus error signal is at a maximum level for an optical disc that is either one of the first and second optical discs, to which a laser beam shorter in wavelength out of the first and second laser beams is focused.

An optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode configured to emit a laser beam; and an objective lens configured to condense the laser beam into a laser spot through which a signal recorded on a signal recording layer of an optical disc is read out by the laser beam, the objective lens having formed thereon a lens surface with a second numerical aperture for acting as a lens, which is larger than a first numerical aperture for forming the laser spot.

A method of manufacturing a synthetic resin lens, comprising: adjusting a degree of change in transmittance of a lens member made of synthetic resin for a blue violet laser beam with accumulated application of the blue violet laser beam, by applying to the lens member an electromagnetic wave shorter in wavelength than the blue violet laser beam.

Method of manufacturing synthetic resin lens, method of manufacturing reformed synthetic resin material and optical pickup apparatus

A photodetector comprising: a substrate; a photodiode fixed to the substrate, the photodiode configured to output a signal according to a light amount of a laser beam when applied with the laser beam; and a translucent resin covering the photodiode, the translucent resin being irradiated with ultraviolet light in advance for a predetermined time such that a change in transmittance of the translucent resin for the laser beam having a predetermined wavelength is set within a predetermined range.

Photodetector and optical pickup apparatus including the same

An optical pickup apparatus comprises: a first laser diode that generates a first laser beam having a first wavelength; a second laser diode that generates a second laser beam having a second wavelength longer than the wavelength; a third laser diode that generates a third laser beam having a third wavelength longer than the first wavelength and shorter than the second wavelength; an objective lens having an inner, outer, intermediate regions on an incident surface, the first laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a first optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and outer regions, the second laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a second optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and intermediate regions, the third laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a third optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and intermediate regions.

An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating that a laser beam enters, the diffraction grating being configured to generate a main beam that is 0th order light and sub-beams that are +1st order diffracted light and &#x2212;1st order diffracted light; an objective lens configured to focus the main beam and the sub-beams onto a signal recording layer; a main-beam light-receiving portion that the main beam reflected by the signal recording layer is applied to; and sub-beam light-receiving portions that the sub-beams reflected by the signal recording layer are respectively applied to, each light-receiving area of the sub-beam light-receiving portions being smaller than a light-receiving area of the main-beam light-receiving portion.

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