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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1990
Sou Ishika, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
In an optical system, a light beam is converged on an optical disk and the light beam reflected from the optical disk passes through the objective lens and guided to a convex lens made of a refractive material having a first relatively large refractive index. The light beam is converged by the convex lens and divided by a half prism into a transmitted light beam and a reflected light beam. The reflected light beam is detected by a photodetector and converted into a tracking signal. The transmitted light beam is guided to a concave lens made of a refractive material having a second refractive index smaller than the first refractive index so that a divergent power is applied to the transmitted light beam from the concave lens. The converged light beam from the concave lens is detected by a photodetector and converted into a focusing signal. The objective lens is controlled in accordance with the focusing and tracking signals so that the objective lens is maintained in focusing and tracking states.