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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1988
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical pickup device includes a light source, an optical lens system that converges light beams from the light source onto a recording medium, a photodetector with three divided regions that detects light beams reflected from the recording medium, and a hologram optical element that introduces the reflected light beams from the recording medium into the photodetector. The hologram optical element is divided into two regions, a part of the reflected light beams from the recording medium is diffracted by the first region of the hologram optical element and focused on a division line in the direction of the diffraction of the hologram optical element. The division line divides the photodetector into two regions, the first region and the second region. The other part of the reflected light beams is diffracted by the second region of the hologram optical element and focused on the third region of the photodetector. A difference in the output intensity between the first and second regions of the photodetector results in a focus error signal and the total of the output intensity of the first, second and third regions of the photodetector results in an information signal.