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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Yasuyuki Kano, Hashima, JP;
Kenji Nagatomi, Kaidu, JP;
Yasuyuki Kano, Hashima, JP;
Kenji Nagatomi, Kaidu, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Sanyo Optec Design Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A half-wave plate is attached to a lens holder holding a collimator lens, and a servo operation to the collimator lens and insertion and retraction of the half-wave plate in and from an optical path of a laser beam are performed by a common actuator. When the lens holder is moved to a servo position, the half-wave plate is inserted in and retracted from the optical path of the laser beam. Therefore, the laser beam is formed in S-polarized light or P-polarized light with respect to a polarization beam splitter, and the laser beam is guided to a first objective lens or a second objective lens.