Panasonic Corporation

Toshiharu Kimura

Masahiro Mori

Masaharu Fukakusa

Izuru Nakai

Hiroshi Tanigawa

Eiichiro Nakao

Mitsugu Adachi

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Hiroshi Iwabuchi

Takeshi Fujishima

Jiro Mimasa

Hiroshi Kamei

A light source () and a connection base () are held with a predetermined gap, solder paste melted by the thermal energy of laser light is fed into the gap, and the light source () and the connection base () are bonded together via a solder layer ().

Method of bonding an optical component

An optical pickup and an optical disk apparatus of the invention includes a light sourcemounted with a light-emitting element constituted of a monoblock on a surface of a plateand emitting plural light beams, a light-receiving element, optical membersand a coupling basefor coupling the light source, the light-receiving elementand the optical members, wherein a light from the light sourceis directed through the optical memberstoward an optical disk, and a returning light from the optical disk is guided through the optical membersto the light-receiving element, characterized in that the plateprovided in the light sourceand the coupling baseare adjoined by a solder.

Optical pickup and optical disk apparatus

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Kumamoto, Japan

Toshiharu Kimura