An optical pickup apparatus compatible with at least two types of optical recording media, using light beams having respective different wavelengths for recording and reading information, the optical pickup apparatus including two laser light sources to emit light beams having the different wavelengths, a holographic lens including a holographic ring to transmit the light beams incident in an inner region of the holographic ring, and to diffract a specific light beam among the light beams emitted from the laser light sources incident in an outer region relative to the inner region, an objective lens to focus the light beams passed through the holographic ring lens on the respective information recording surfaces of the two types of the optical recording media, optical elements to alter optical paths of the light beams reflected from the information recording surfaces of the optical recording media to corresponding photodetectors.
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0. 50. An objective lens for an optical pickup for correcting a spherical aberration caused by one of plurality of light beams, the lens comprising
a first surface which focuses the plurality of light beams and has a curved surface curving from an apex; and
a spherical aberration correction pattern formed below the apex so as to correct the spherical aberration of the one light beam.
0. 38. An objective lens for an optical pickup for selectively diffracting at least one of plurality of light beams, the lens comprising
a first surface which focuses the plurality of light beams; and
a second surface adjacent to the first surface and having a diffractive pattern to diffract at least one of the plurality of light beams, wherein the diffractive pattern comprises a holographic pattern.
0. 42. An objective lens for an optical pickup for selectively diffracting at least one of plurality of light beams, the lens comprising
a first surface which focuses the plurality of light beams; and
a second surface adjacent to the first surface and having a diffractive pattern at a location where a numerical aperture of the objective lens is higher than a predetermined numerical aperture value so as to diffract at least one of the plurality of light beams.
20. An objective lens for use in focusing light beams on optical recording media of different thicknesses, comprising:
an inner region which directs the light beams having corresponding wavelengths to be focused on the corresponding optical recording media having respectively different thicknesses; and
a diffractive region having a wavelength dependence such that the light beams are selectively diffracted so as to adjust a numerical aperture of the objective lens.
0. 61. A method of manufacturing an objective lens, the method comprising forming a diffractive pattern on a portion of a surface of the objective lens without forming the diffractive pattern on another portion of the surface such that the another portion focuses a plurality of light beams, and the formed diffractive pattern has an optical property to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams, wherein the forming comprises etching a hologram having grooves on the surface as the diffractive surface.
0. 62. A method of manufacturing an objective lens, the method comprising forming a diffractive pattern on a portion of a surface of the objective lens without forming the diffractive pattern on another portion of the surface such that the another portion focuses a plurality of light beams, and the formed diffractive pattern has an optical property to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams, wherein the forming comprises molding a hologram having grooves on the surface as the diffractive surface.
0. 47. An objective lens for an optical pickup for correcting a spherical aberration caused by one of plurality of light beams, the lens comprising
a first surface which focuses the plurality of light beams; and
a second surface adjacent to the first surface and having a diffractive pattern which diffracts the plurality of light beams and which is disposed to correct the spherical aberration of at least one of the plurality of the one light beams, wherein the diffractive pattern comprises a holographic pattern.
4. An objective lens for an optical pickup, the objective lens comprising:
a holographic region having a plurality of concentric ring-shaped steps formed on a lens surface of the objective lens,
wherein the objective lens has a wavelength dependence such that two light beams having corresponding different wavelengths and an identical diffractive order form appropriate different wavefronts corresponding to reproducing and/or recording information from and/or to corresponding two kinds of optical recording media having respectively different thickness.
28. An optical system for use in focusing light beams on optical recording media of different thicknesses, comprising:
an optical element; and
an objective lens,
wherein the optical element comprises:
an inner region which directs the light beams having corresponding wavelengths to be focused by the objective lens on the corresponding optical recording media having respectively different thicknesses; and
a diffractive region having a wavelength dependence such that the light beams are selectively diffracted so as to adjust a numerical aperture of the objective lens.
1. An objective lens to form beam spots using light beams of respectively different wavelengths, the objective lens comprising:
an inner region including an optical center of the objective lens;
a holographic region surrounding said inner region and comprising a plurality of steps disposed on a lens surface of the objective lens; and
an outer region surrounding said holographic region,
wherein
said inner region transmits the light beams,
said holographic region diffracts a second one of the light beams, and
the outer region transmits a first one of the light beams.
37. An optical pickup for use with recording media, comprising:
a light source to emit light beams of different wavelengths;
an objective lens comprising at least one holographic region, the at least one holographic region comprising a plurality of gratings on the objective lens; and
an optical detector to detect the light beams after reflection from the recording media and after having passed through the objective lens,
wherein:
at least one part of the at least one holographic region transmits the light beams, and
at least one other part of the at least one holographic region diffracts one of the light beams.
36. An objective lens for an optical pickup, the objective lens comprising at least one holographic region so as to selectively transmit data with respect to disks of different thicknesses using light beams, wherein the at least one holographic region comprises a plurality of gratings on the objective lens, at least one part of the at least one holographic region transmits the light beams for use in transmitting the data with respect to the disks of different thicknesses, and at least one other part of the at least one holographic region diffracts one of the light beams so as to adjust a numerical aperture of the objective lens for use in transmitting the data with respect to the disks of different thicknesses.
7. An objective lens to form beam spots of different sizes using corresponding first and second light beams of respectively different wavelengths, the objective lens comprising:
an inner region including an optical center of the objective lens which has an optical property optimized to focus the first light beam onto a first optical recording medium of a first thicknesses and to focus the second light beam onto a second optical recording medium of a second thickness other than the first thickness; and
a diffractive region surrounding said inner region and comprising an optical property optimized so as to selectively diffract the first and second light beams as a function of wavelength so as to change a numerical aperture of the objective lens.
0. 58. A method of selectively focusing light beams on optical recording media of different thicknesses using an objective lens, the method comprising:
receiving an emitted one of the light beams at an inner region of the objective lens, the inner region having an optical property which directs the light beams having corresponding wavelengths to be focused on the corresponding optical recording media having respectively different thicknesses; and
receiving the emitted one of the light beams at a diffractive region, the diffractive region having a wavelength dependence such that the light beams are diffracted so as to correct for spherical aberrations due to the different thicknesses of the optical recording media, wherein the diffractive region comprises a holographic pattern.
0. 55. A method of selectively focusing first and second light beams of respectively different wavelengths using an objective lens to form corresponding beam spots of different sizes, the method comprising:
receiving an emitted one of the first and second light beams at an inner region of the objective lens, the inner region including an optical center of the objective lens which has an optical property optimized to focus the first light beam onto a first optical recording medium of a first thicknesses and to focus the second light beam onto a second optical recording medium of a second thickness other than the first thickness; and
receiving the emitted one of the first and second light beams at a diffractive region surrounding said inner region, the diffractive region comprising an optical property optimized so as to diffract at least one of the first and second light beams as a function of wavelength so as to correct for spherical aberrations on the first and second optical recording media, wherein the diffractive region comprises a holographic pattern.
2. The objective lens according to
3. The objective lens according to
5. The objective lens according to
6. The objective lens according to
8. The objective lens of
selectively diffracts the first light beam having a first wavelength so as to not be focused on the first optical recording medium, and
selectively allows the second light beam of a second wavelength to be focused on the second recording medium.
9. The objective lens of
11. The objective lens of
12. The objective lens of
13. The objective lens of
14. The objective lens of
15. The objective lens of
16. The objective lens of
17. The objective lens of
18. The objective lens according to
19. The objective lens according to
21. The objective lens of
22. The objective lens of
the one optical recording medium is a compact disk, and
the diffractive portion diffracts the one light beam as first order light so as to reduce the spherical aberration with respect to the compact disk.
23. The objective lens of
another optical recording medium is a digital versatile disk, and
the diffractive portion allows another light beam of another wavelength other than the one wavelength to be directed to the digital versatile disk so as to record and/or reproduce with respect to the digital versatile disk together with a portion of the another light beam focused by the inner region.
24. The objective lens of
25. The objective lens of
26. The objective lens of
27. The objective lens of
29. The optical system of
30. The optical system of
the one optical recording medium is a compact disk, and
the diffractive portion diffracts the one light beam as first order light so as to reduce the spherical aberration with respect to the compact disk.
31. The optical system of
another optical recording medium is a digital versatile disk, and
the diffractive portion allows another light beam of another wavelength other than the one wavelength to be directed through the objective lens to the digital versatile disk so as to record and/or reproduce with respect to the digital versatile disk together with a portion of the another light beam which passed through the inner region and the objective lens.
32. The optical system of
33. The optical system of
34. The optical system of
35. The optical system of
0. 39. The objective lens of claim 38, wherein:
the first surface includes an inner portion of the lens, and
the second surface is on a periphery of the first surface.
0. 40. The objective lens of claim 38, wherein the first surface does not include the diffractive pattern.
0. 41. The objective lens of claim 38, wherein the diffractive pattern is configured to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams.
0. 43. The objective lens of claim 42, wherein the predetermined numerical aperture value is 0.3.
0. 44. The objective lens of claim 42, wherein the first surface does not include the diffractive pattern.
0. 45. The objective lens of claim 42, wherein the diffractive pattern is configured to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams.
0. 46. The objective lens of claim 42, wherein the diffractive pattern comprises a holographic pattern.
0. 48. The objective lens of claim 47, wherein the first surface does not include the diffractive pattern.
0. 49. The objective lens of claim 47, wherein the diffractive pattern is configured to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams.
0. 51. The objective lens of claim 50, further comprising a second surface on a periphery of the first surface and having the spherical aberration correction pattern.
0. 52. The objective lens of claim 50, wherein the first surface does not include the spherical aberration correction pattern.
0. 53. The objective lens of claim 50, wherein the spherical aberration correction pattern is configured to selectively diffract one of the plurality of light beams.
0. 54. The objective lens of claim 50, wherein the spherical aberration correction pattern comprises a holographic pattern.
0. 56. The method of claim 55, wherein the inner region does not include a diffractive region.
0. 57. The method of claim 55, wherein the diffractive pattern is configured to selectively diffract the first and second light beams.
0. 59. The method of claim 58, wherein the inner region does not include the diffractive region.
0. 60. The method of claim 58, wherein the diffractive pattern is configured to selectively diffract the light beams.
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This application claims the benefit of Korean Application No. 97-11297, filed Mar. 28, 1997, and is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/419,792 filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Oct. 18, 1999 and which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,304,540 which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/049,988 filed Mar. 30, 1998, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,043,912, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an optical pickup apparatus compatible with a digital video disk (DVD) and a recordable compact disk (CD-R), and more particularly, to an optical pickup apparatus which can compatibly record information on and read information from a digital video disk (DVD) and a recordable compact disk (CD-R), respectively, using a holographic lens.
2. Description of the Related Art
An optical pickup apparatus records and reads the information such as video, audio or data at a high density, and various types of recording media are a disk, a card and a tape. Among them, the disk type is primarily used. Recently, in the field of the optical disk apparatus, a laser disk (LD), a compact disk (CD) and a digital video disk (DVD) have been developed. Such an optical disk includes a plastic or glass medium having a certain thickness along an axial direction to which light is incident, and a signal recording surface on which information is recorded and located on the plastic or glass medium.
So far, a high-density optical disk system enlarges a numerical aperture of an objective lens to increase a recording density, and uses a short wavelength light source of 635 nm or 650 nm, Accordingly, the high-density optical disk system can record or read signals on or from a digital video disk, and can also read signals from a CD. However, to be compatible with a recent type of a CD, that is, a recordable CD (CD-R), light having a wavelength of 780 nm should be used, due to the recording characteristic of the CD-R recording medium. As a result, using the light beam wavelengths of 780 nm and 635 (or 650) nm in a single optical pickup becomes very important for compatibility of the DVD and the CD-R. A conventional optical pickup which is compatible with the DVD and the CD-R will be described below with reference to
Light having the 635 nm wavelength emitted from a first laser light source 11 is incident to a first collimating lens 12, in which the light is shown in a solid line. The first collimating lens 12 collimates the incident light beam to be in a parallel light beam. The light beam passing through the first collimating lens 12 is reflected by a beam splitter 13 and then goes to an interference filter prism 14.
Light having the 780 nm wavelength emitted from a second laser light source 21 passes through a second collimating lens 22, a beam splitter 23 and a converging lens 24, and then goes to the interference filter prism 14, in which the light is shown in a dotted line. Here, the light beam of the 780 nm wavelength is converged by the interference filter prism 14. An optical system having such a structure is called a “finite optical system.” The interference filter prism 14 totally transmits the light beam of the 635 nm wavelength reflected from the beam splitter 13, and totally reflects the light beam of the 780 nm wavelength converged by the converging lens 24. As a result, the light beam outgoing from the first laser light source 11 is incident to a quarter-wave plate 15 in the form of a parallel beam by the collimating lens 12, while the light beam from the second laser light source 21 is incident to the quarter-wave plate 15 in the form of a divergent beam by the converging lens 24 and the interference filter prism 14. The light transmitted through the quarter-wave plate 15 passes through a variable aperture 16 having a thin film structure and then is incident to an objective lens 17.
The light beam of the 635 nm wavelength emitted from the first laser light source 11 is focused by the objective lens 17 on an information recording surface in the DVD 18 having a thickness of 0.6 mm. Therefore, the light reflected from the information recording surface of the DVD 18 contains information recorded on the information recording surface. The reflected light is transmitted by the beam splitter 13, and is then incident to a photodetector for detecting optical information.
If the finite optical system described above is not used, when the light beam of the 780 nm wavelength emitted from the second laser light source 21 is focused on an information recording surface in the CD-R 25 having a thickness of 1.2 mm using the above described objective lens 17, spherical aberration is generated due to a difference in thickness between the DVD 18 and the CD-R 25. The spherical aberration is due to the fact that the distance between the information recording surface of the CD-R 25 and the objective lens 17 is farther than that between the information recording surface of the DVD 18 and the objective lens 17, along an optical axis. To reduce such a spherical aberration, a construction of a finite optical system including the converging lens 24 is required. By using the variable aperture 16 to be described later with reference to
The thin-film type variable aperture 16 of
By using the variable aperture 16, the 780 nm wavelength light transmitted through the region 1 having the 0.45 NA or below forms a beam spot appropriate to the CD-R 25 on the information recording surface thereof. Thus, the
However, the optical pickup shown in
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical pickup apparatus which is compatible with a digital video disk (DVD) and a recordable compact disk (CD-R), by adopting an infinite optical system and using a holographic lens to remove a spherical aberration generated due to a difference in thickness between optical disks.
Additional objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
To accomplish the above and other objects of the present invention, there is provided an optical pickup apparatus compatible with at least two types of optical recording media, using light beams having respective different wavelengths for recording and reading information, the optical pickup apparatus including two laser light sources to emit light beams having different wavelengths, respectively, a holographic lens, including a holographic ring, for transmitting both of the light beams emitted from the two laser light sources in an inner region of the holographic ring, and diffracting a specific light beam among the light beams emitted from the laser light sources in an outer region of the holographic ring, an objective lens to focus the light beams passed through the holographic ring lens on the respective information recording surfaces of the two types of the optical recording media, optical elements to alter optical paths of the light beams reflected from the information recording surfaces of the optical recording media, and two photodetectors to individually detect optical information from the light beams incident from the optical elements.
These and other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the preferred embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present invention by referring to the figures.
First, when recording and/or reading information on a DVD, a light beam having the 650 nm (or 635 nm) wavelength is emitted from the first laser light source 31 and is incident to the holographic beam splitter 32, in which the light is shown as a solid line. The incident light beam passes through the holographic beam splitter 32 and proceeds to the beam splitter 33. When recording and/or reading information about a CD-R, a light beam having the 780 nm wavelength is emitted from the second laser light source 39 and is incident to the holographic beam splitter 40, in which the light is shown as a dotted line. The incident light beam passes through the holographic beam splitter 40 and proceeds to the beam splitter 33.
The beam splitter 33 totally transmits the incident light beam of the 650 nm wavelength and totally reflects the incident light beam of the 780 nm wavelength. The totally transmitted or reflected light beam goes to the holographic ring lens 35 in the form of a parallel beam after passing through the collimating lens 34. The holographic ring lens 35 selectively diffracts the incident light beam according to the wavelength thereof, to prevent the generation of spherical aberration with regard to the light beams focused on the information recording surfaces of the optical disks 37 and 41.
Here, λ is the 650 nm wavelength, λ′ is the 780 nm wavelength, and n and n′ denote a reflective index (1.514520) in the 650 nm wavelength and a reflective index (1.511183) in the 780 nm wavelength, respectively. In the above equations (1) and (2), if m=3 and m′=2, the depth d becomes about 3.8 μm.
All of the 650 nm wavelength light incident to the holographic ring lens 35 having the above characteristics is transmitted and then proceeds to the objective lens 36. The incident light beam passes through the objective lens 36 and forms a beam spot on the information recording surface of the DVD 37. The light beam reflected from the information recording surface of the DVD 37 is incident to the holographic ring lens 35. After passing through the holographic ring lens 35, the reflected light beam is incident to the collimating lens 34, the beam splitter 33 and then to the holographic beam splitter 32, wherein the holographic beam splitter 32 directs the reflected light beam to the photodetector 38. The 780 nm wavelength light incident to the holographic ring lens 35 is transmitted in the holographic lens 353 and then proceeds to the objective lens 36 as shown in
The holographic ring lens 35 having the above functions may be manufactured integrally with an objective lens by being etched or molded to a constant depth inwards from one optical surface of the objective lens. The integrally incorporated holographic ring lens has the same function as the holographic ring lens 35.
As described above, the optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention is used compatibly with a DVD and a CD-R, by using a holographic ring lens to eliminate a spherical aberration generated in response to a disk being changed to another disk having a different thickness, in which a working distance is shorter in the case of the CD-R than the DVD. Also, the optical pickup apparatus provides advantages which include ease in construction of a holographic ring lens and good mass-production capabilities.
While only certain embodiments of the invention have been specifically described herein, it will be apparent that numerous modifications may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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