Objective lens and optical head for optical disc drive
AssigneesHitachi, Ltd., Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoichi Maruyama, Shigeru Nakamura
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Abstract
An optical head for an optical disc drive is provided with a first laser diode that emits a shorter wavelength laser beam, a second laser diode that emits a longer wavelength laser beam, and an objective lens for converging the beams emitted by the laser diodes on the data recording surface of the optical disc. Each of first and second surfaces of the objective lens is rotationally symmetrical, and a rotational axis of the first surface and a rotational axis of the second surface are arranged to be deviated from each other.
Claims9
An objective lens that converges a first laser beam having a first wavelength on a first optical disc having a first protective layer, and a second laser beam having a second wavelength on a second optical disc having a second protective layer, said first wavelength being shorter than said second wavelength, data recording density of said first optical disc being greater than data recording density of said second optical disc, a thickness of said first protective layer being smaller than a thickness of said second protective layer, said objective lens consisting of a single lens element, said objective lens including:
- a first surface located on a laser emitting side, said first surface being rotationally symmetrical about a first rotational axis;
- and
- a second surface located on an optical disc side, said second surface being rotationally symmetrical about a second rotational axis, said first rotational axis and said second rotational axis being deviated relative to each other,
- wherein said objective lens satisfies the following condition under a hypothetical condition where said first rotational axis coincides with said second rotational axis:
- 4.0<SC1/SC2<−0.25,
- wherein,
- SC1 represents an offence SC against sine condition at the peripheral portion of said first region when the said first laser beam is converged on said first disc,
- wherein SC2 represents an offence SC against sine condition at the peripheral portion of said first region when said second laser beam is converged on the second disc,
- the offence SC against sine condition being defined by the formula below:
- SC=nH1/(n′ sin U′)−f(1−m)
- wherein,
- n represents a refractive index on the beam incident side medium,
- n′ represents a refractive index on the beam emerging side medium,
- U′ represents an angle of the emerging beam with respect to the optical axis,
- m represents a paraxial magnification,
- H1 represents a ray height on a principal plane, and
- f represents a focal length.
An optical head for an optical disc drive, comprising:
- a first laser diode that emits a first laser beam having a first wavelength;
- a second laser diode that emits a second laser beam having a second wavelength which is longer than said first wavelength;
- an objective lens having a first surface which is a laser diode side surface and a second surface which is an optical disc side surface, said objective lens converging said first laser beam on a first optical disc having a first protective layer to form a beam spot, said objective lens converging said second laser beam on a second optical disc having a second protective layer to form the beam spot, a thickness of said first protective layer being smaller than a thickness of said second protective layer,
- said first surface being rotationally symmetrical with respect to a first rotational axis,
- said second surface being rotationally symmetrical with respect to a second rotational axis,
- said first rotational axis and said second rotational axis being deviated relative to each other,
- a beam emitting point of said first laser diode being positioned at a first position, coma that is caused as said first laser beam is converged on the data recording surface of said first disc being minimized when said first laser beam is emitted from said first position, and
- a beam emitting point of said second laser diode being positioned at a second position which is different from said first position, coma that is caused as said second laser beam is converged on the data recording surface of said second disc being minimized when said second laser beam is emitted from said second position.
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