JP2005317052A - Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus in which spherical aberration caused in this time can be corrected and adjusted in a short time even if thickness deviation of a cover layer of an optical recording medium of high recording density is caused. <P>SOLUTION: In an optical recording and reproducing apparatus comprising of an objective lens 22, a beam expander means 16 adjusting beam width of reflected light from an optical recording medium D, a photodetector 28 receiving the reflected light through the beam expander means, an arithmetic circuit 30 obtaining a focus error signal S1 based on an output signal from the photodetector, and a drive means 34 moving the beam expander means to the optical axis direction, the apparatus is provided with an aberration control means 32 in which the bean expander means is moved to arbitrary positions of three points or more on the optical axis, while S-characteristics in each three points positions are obtained from a focus error signal received from the arithmetic circuit, respective amplitude values are obtained from the S-characteristics, while a position of the beam expander means at which the amplitude value becomes the maximum is obtained based on obtained three amplitude values, and which outputs an indication signal S2 to the drive means so that the beam expander is set to the position obtained by the beam expander means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus for recording information on an optical recording medium such as an optical disk or reproducing the recorded information, and in particular, to correct spherical aberration caused by a thickness shift of a cover layer of an optical disk. The present invention relates to an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus capable of performing

  Conventionally, in a low recording density optical disc typified by an optical recording medium such as a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) or a CD (Compact Disc), the spherical aberration caused by the thickness shift of the cover layer of the disc could be ignored. However, in a high recording density optical information recording / reproducing apparatus using a recent short wavelength laser beam and a high numerical aperture objective lens, the error tolerance of the thickness of the cover layer of the disk is reduced, and this thickness is reduced. When deviating from the design value, an image connected to the recording layer is deviated, and spherical aberration exceeding an allowable amount occurs. Thereby, the shape of the focused spot of the laser beam is disturbed, and the recording / reproducing characteristics are deteriorated. Since this spherical aberration is inversely proportional to the wavelength of the light source and proportional to the fourth power of the numerical aperture of the objective lens, the shorter the wavelength of the laser light from the light source and the higher the numerical aperture of the objective lens, the disc cover layer for recording / reproduction characteristics The margin of thickness deviation becomes narrower. Therefore, in the optical information recording / reproducing apparatus in which the wavelength of the laser light from the light source is shortened to increase the recording density and the numerical aperture of the objective lens is increased, the thickness of the cover layer of the optical disc is not deteriorated in order not to deteriorate the recording / reproducing characteristics. It is necessary to correct spherical aberration caused by the deviation.

  In the conventional apparatus, a method using a focus error signal and a focus sum signal based on the output from each light receiving portion of the photodetector in the optical pickup is employed (for example, Patent Document 1). This focus error signal is obtained, for example, by the astigmatism method. Specifically, when an optical element in the optical path is moved in the optical axis direction, the magnification of the objective lens changes and the spherical aberration changes. Since the amplitude of the focus error signal changes when this spherical aberration changes, the spherical aberration is determined by moving the optical element in the optical path in the optical axis direction within a predetermined range using such a principle. And the change in the amplitude of the focus error signal with respect to the change in spherical aberration at this time is observed. Thereafter, the optical element in the optical path is adjusted to an appropriate position in the optical axis direction so that the amplitude of the focus error signal is maximized.

The level of the focus sum signal is also observed and corrected. For example, by utilizing the fact that the level of the focus sum signal changes when the focus servo is performed when the spherical aberration changes, the focus servo is performed in the optical axis direction of the objective lens so that the focus error signal becomes “0”. After controlling the position and performing the focus servo, the spherical aberration is changed in the predetermined range by moving the optical element in the optical path in the optical axis direction within the predetermined range, and the focus sum for the change of the spherical aberration at this time Observe changes in signal level. Thereafter, the optical element in the optical path is adjusted to an appropriate position in the optical axis direction so that the level of the focus sum signal is maximized. As a result, spherical aberration that cancels out the spherical aberration due to the thickness deviation of the cover layer of the disk is generated in the objective lens, and the total spherical aberration becomes “0”.
JP 2003-141766 A

However, in the conventional apparatus described above, the spherical aberration is changed within the predetermined range by moving the optical element in the optical path in the optical axis direction within the predetermined range, and the amplitude of the focus error signal with respect to the change of the spherical aberration at this time In addition, after performing focus servo, the optical element in the optical path is moved in the optical axis direction within a predetermined range to change the spherical aberration within the predetermined range. If it is impossible to predict how much the disc cover layer thickness deviation is from the design reference thickness in terms of observing the change in the sum signal level, the above signals will be used for all optical element operating ranges. The level must be observed. Therefore, a lot of time is required for adjusting the spherical aberration, and there is a disadvantage that the initial startup time of the optical information recording / reproducing apparatus corresponding to the high recording density optical recording medium becomes long.
The present invention has been devised to pay attention to the above problems and to effectively solve them. An object of the present invention is to provide an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus capable of correcting and adjusting spherical aberration generated at this time in a short time even if there is a thickness shift of a cover layer of an optical recording medium having a high recording density. It is to provide.

  According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a beam expander means for adjusting a beam width of laser light emitted from a light source, and the laser light having the adjusted beam width emitted from the beam expander means as an optical recording medium. An objective lens that condenses light, a photodetector that receives reflected light from the optical recording medium via the beam expander means, and an arithmetic circuit that obtains a focus error signal based on an output signal from the photodetector And a drive means for moving the beam expander means in the direction of the optical axis of the laser beam, wherein the beam expander means is positioned at any three positions on the optical axis. The S-characteristics at the respective movement positions are obtained from the focus error signal received from the arithmetic circuit, and the S-characteristics A width value is obtained, and the position of the beam expander means that maximizes the amplitude value is obtained based on the obtained three or more amplitude values, and the beam expander means is set to the obtained position. Thus, an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising aberration control means for outputting an instruction signal toward the drive means.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a beam expander means for adjusting a beam width of laser light emitted from a light source, and the laser light having the adjusted beam width emitted from the beam expander means as an optical recording medium. An objective lens that condenses light, a photodetector that receives reflected light from the optical recording medium via the beam expander means, and an arithmetic circuit that obtains a focus error signal based on an output signal from the photodetector And a drive means for moving the beam expander means in the direction of the optical axis of the laser beam, wherein the beam expander means is positioned at any three positions on the optical axis. The S-characteristics at the respective movement positions are obtained from the focus error signal received from the arithmetic circuit, and the S-characteristics A first amplitude value from the in-focus point to the maximum value and a second amplitude value from the in-focus point to the minimum value in the character characteristic are obtained, and an amplitude value ratio that is a ratio of the obtained first and second amplitude values Aberration control means is provided for determining the position of the beam expander means that maximizes the output, and outputting an instruction signal to the drive means so that the beam expander means is set at the determined position. An optical information recording / reproducing apparatus.

According to the optical information recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention, the following excellent operational effects can be exhibited.
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the beam expander means is moved to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis to obtain the S-characteristics of the focus error signal at each movement position, and these S-characteristics are obtained. Since the position where the amplitude value becomes the maximum is obtained based on the amplitude value of this, and the beam expander means is set at this position, there is a deviation in the thickness of the cover layer of the optical recording medium having a high recording density. However, the spherical aberration occurring at this time can be corrected and adjusted in a short time.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the beam expander means is moved to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis to obtain the S-characteristics of the focus error signal at each movement position, and these S-characteristics are obtained. And a first amplitude value up to the maximum value and a second amplitude value up to the minimum value, and a position where an amplitude value ratio, which is a ratio of these first and second amplitude values, becomes maximum, Since the beam expander means is set at this position, even if there is a thickness deviation of the cover layer of the optical recording medium having a high recording density, the spherical aberration occurring at this time is corrected and adjusted in a short time. be able to.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a graph showing a relationship between a focus error signal and an objective lens, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of a second beam expander lens of a beam expander means. 4 is a graph showing the relationship between the position and the amplitude value of the upper half wave of the focus error signal. FIG. 4 is a graph showing the relationship between the position of the second beam expander lens of the beam expander means and the amplitude value ratio of the focus error signal. is there.

  First, as shown in FIG. 1, the optical information recording / reproducing apparatus 2 guides a laser beam L1 emitted from, for example, a semiconductor laser element 4 that is a light source to an optical disc D that is an optical recording medium, and transmits the reflected light. An optical system 6 constituting an optical pickup to be detected is included. Specifically, this optical system 6 has the following optical components. In the figure, 8 is a collimator lens that collimates the laser light L1, 10 is a grating, 12 is a polarization beam splitter that polarizes the laser light L1 and reflects a part thereof, and 14 is a laser that receives a part of the laser light L1. A monitor detector 16 is beam expander means for adjusting the width of the beam by transmitting the light that has passed through the polarizing beam splitter 12, and this beam expander means 16 is a first beam expander disposed on the optical axis. A panda lens 16A and a second beam expander lens 16B are provided.

  Reference numeral 18 denotes a rising mirror that raises the laser light L1 that has passed through the beam expander means 16, 20 denotes a quarter-wave plate that passes the laser light L1 from the raising mirror 18, and 22 denotes a quarter-wave plate 20. It is an objective lens that focuses the laser beam L1 that has passed through the optical disc D to form a light spot. Reference numeral 24 denotes a detection lens that returns after being reflected by the optical disk D and further reflected by the polarizing beam splitter 12. Reference numeral 26 denotes a cylindrical lens that passes reflected light that has passed through the detection lens 24. Reference numeral 28 denotes a cylindrical lens. This is a photodetector that receives the reflected light that has passed through the lens 26, and this photodetector 28 comprises, for example, a known quadrant sensor.

Based on the detection signal of the photodetector 28, necessary signals such as a reproduction signal and a tracking signal are obtained by a circuit (not shown). Here, a focus error signal S1 is obtained by the arithmetic circuit 30. Reference numeral 32 denotes aberration control means characterized by the present invention, which is constituted by, for example, a microcomputer. The aberration control means 32 performs an operation as shown in a first embodiment or a second embodiment, which will be described later, and outputs an instruction signal S2 related to the beam expander means 16.
Reference numeral 34 denotes driving means for moving the beam expander means 16 in response to the instruction signal S2, and this driving means 34 includes a driving circuit 36 that directly receives the instruction signal S2 and outputs a driving signal S3. , And a drive mechanism 38 that actually moves the beam expander means 16.

  The drive mechanism 38 includes a stepping motor 42 that is connected to a lead screw 40 and operates according to the drive signal S3. The lead screw 40 is screwed with a thread portion of a lens holder 44 that holds the second beam expander lens 16B, which is one of the first and second beam expander lenses 16A and 16B. The lead screw 40 can be moved along the forward and reverse directions. On the other hand, the first beam expander lens 16A is fixed to one end of a guide rod 46 that guides the movement of the lens 16B. The guide rod 46 detects the origin position of the lens 16B. Origin detector 48 is installed.

The aberration control means 32 will now be described. In the first embodiment, the aberration control means 32 moves the beam expander means 16 to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis, and the arithmetic circuit. S-characteristics at the respective movement positions are obtained from the focus error signal S1 received from 30, the amplitude values are obtained from the S-characteristics, and the amplitude values are calculated based on the obtained three or more amplitude values. The position of the beam expander means 16 at which is maximized is obtained, and the instruction signal S2 is outputted to the drive means 34 so that the beam expander means 16 is set at the obtained position.
Further, in the second embodiment, the aberration control means 32 moves the beam expander means 16 to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis, and from the focus error signal S1 received from the arithmetic circuit 30, An S-characteristic at each moving position is obtained, and from the S-characteristic, a first amplitude value from the focal point to the maximum value and a second amplitude value from the focal point to the minimum value in each S-characteristic are obtained. The position of the beam expander means 16 that maximizes the amplitude value ratio, which is the ratio between the obtained first and second amplitude values, is obtained, and the beam expander means 16 is set to the obtained position. Then, an operation is performed so as to output an instruction signal toward the driving means 34. In the following description, the S-characteristics are obtained at three different movement positions, but the S-characteristics may be obtained at a number of movement positions not limited to three.

Next, the operation of the present invention configured as described above will be described.
First, a general operation will be described.
The laser light L1 emitted from the semiconductor laser element 4 is collimated by the collimator lens 8 and is divided by the polarization beam splitter 12 into light directed to the laser monitor detector 14 side and the objective lens 22 side. The light traveling toward the objective lens 22 is transmitted through the first beam expander lens 16A and the second beam expander lens 16B of the beam expander means 16, and is bent toward the surface of the optical disk D by the total reflection rising mirror 18. Then, the light passes through the quarter-wave plate 20 and is condensed on the optical disk D by the objective lens 22. The reflected light from the optical disk D is transmitted through the objective lens 22 in the reverse direction, travels in the reverse direction to the polarization beam splitter 12 and is bent by the polarization beam splitter 12, and the detection lens 24 and the cylindrical lens 26 are moved. The light is transmitted and received by the photodetector 28. The predetermined detection signal So is input to the arithmetic circuit 30. The reproduction signal and tracking error signal are formed by other circuits not shown.

  The arithmetic circuit 30 calculates the focus error signal S <b> 1 based on the outputs from the respective light receiving units of the photodetector 28. Here, the focus error signal S1 is obtained by the astigmatism method. The focus error signal S1 is divided into two parts, one of which is supplied to a focus control system (not shown) to actually perform focus control on the objective lens 22, while the other is supplied to the aberration control means 32 side, When starting up, an aberration correction operation as shown in Example 1 or Example 2 is performed. For example, the drive circuit 36 outputs a drive signal S3 to the stepping motor 42 based on the instruction signal S2 output from the aberration control means 32, and drives this to rotate the lead screw 40. When the second beam expander lens 16B is moved along the optical axis direction in accordance with the rotation of the lead screw 40, the spherical aberration changes. When the spherical aberration changes in this way, the amplitude value of the focus error signal S1 changes, and this amplitude value takes a maximum value at a position where the amount of spherical aberration becomes “0”.

  For example, FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the position of the objective lens 22 and the focus error signal. When the objective lens 22 is moved toward or away from the optical disc D, it shows a characteristic of drawing an S-shape. This is called a characteristic. The center point P0 of this S-shaped characteristic is the focal point, and has a maximum value that protrudes upward and a maximum value that protrudes downward. In FIG. 2, a curve X1 indicates a case where the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is at a position where the spherical aberration is “0”, and a curve X2 indicates that the position of the second beam expander lens 16B indicates the spherical aberration. The curve X3 indicates the case where the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is on the positive side from the position where the spherical aberration is “0”. Here, “positive side” indicates a direction in which the objective lens 22 approaches the optical disc D, and “negative side” indicates a direction in which the objective lens 22 is separated from the optical disc D.

  As described above, the focus error signal S1 when the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to the position where the spherical aberration is “0” and back and forth thereof is the position where the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is spherical. In the case of the position where the aberration is “0” (curve X1), the amount M1 from the upper maximum value to the focal point P0 and the amount M2 from the focal point P0 to the lower minimum value are equal, and their amplitude values are also maximized. Become. On the other hand, when the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to the negative side from the position where the spherical aberration is “0” (curve X2), from the amount N1 from the upper maximum value to the focal point P0, The amount N2 from the focal point P0 to the lower minimum value becomes smaller and the amplitude value also decreases. Conversely, when moving from the position where spherical aberration is “0” to the positive side (curve X3), the amount T2 from the focal point P0 to the lower minimum value from the amount T1 from the upper maximum value to the focal point P0. Becomes larger and the amplitude value also decreases.

  FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the position of the second beam expander lens 16B and the amplitude value of the upper half wave of the focus error signal S1, and the curve Y1 shows that the thickness of the cover layer of the optical disc D is shifted. In the case of 0 ”, the curve Y2 indicates that the thickness of the cover layer of the optical disc D is thicker than“ 0 ”, and the curve Y3 indicates that the thickness of the cover layer of the optical disc D is“ 0 ”. This is the case with thinner discs. As shown in the drawing, when the thickness of the cover layer of the optical disc deviates from the design value, the amplitude value of the upper half wave does not change, but the position of the apex is shifted in the horizontal direction.

Now, based on the above characteristics, the operation of the first embodiment will be described below.
<First embodiment>
As described above, when the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is changed, the spherical aberration changes, and as shown in FIG. 3, when the spherical aberration changes, the amplitude value of the focus error signal S1 changes. This amplitude value takes the maximum value at the position where the spherical aberration amount is “0” (see FIG. 2). Since the characteristic can be approximated by a quadratic function, the amplitude value is measured at each of three arbitrary positions of the second beam expander lens 16B, and the position that is the maximum value of the quadratic function is calculated. For example, taking curve Y1 in FIG. 3 as an example, points P1, P2, and P3 are measurement points. Then, the numerical value is multiplied by a correction coefficient to obtain an appropriate position for correcting spherical aberration. This correction coefficient is a coefficient resulting from the amplitude value and the characteristics of the second beam expander lens 16B with respect to the lens position. When the maximum value of the amplitude value is used as an axis, the calculation error due to the asymmetry of the front and rear is corrected. It is a coefficient.

The procedure will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention.
After the power is turned on, initial preparation is executed (S1). In this initial preparation, the position of the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to the origin. At this time, it is moved until the origin detector 48 detects it, and then moved in the reverse direction until the origin detector 48 becomes undetected. At this position, the number of movement steps is set to “0”. Further, the number of steps from detection to non-detection by the origin detector 48 is stored as a backlash amount. The second beam expander lens 16B is moved from this position to a position where the thickness deviation of the cover layer is “0”. At this position, the parameters necessary for performing the focus ramp are calibrated and the focus ramp is performed.

Next, n = 1 is set, and the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to the position of the first point in the three-point measurement (S3). Then, the focus ramp is performed at the first point to obtain the S-characteristic as shown in FIG. 2 (S4).
Next, the amplitude value W of the S-characteristic is obtained (S5). The amplitude value is obtained by measuring the maximum value and the minimum value in the focus error signal S1 for a fixed time, and is obtained by “amplitude value = maximum value−minimum value”. . In this case, the minimum value is a negative value. For example, taking the curve X2 in FIG. 2 as an example, the sum of the absolute value “N1” and the absolute value “N2” is obtained.

Next, n is sequentially increased to “2” and “3” (S6, S7), and the second beam expander lens 16B is sequentially moved to the second point and the third point, each time as described above. The S-characteristic is obtained, and the amplitude value of this S-characteristic is obtained as described above (S3 to S5).
Next, an appropriate position of the second beam expander lens 16B having the maximum amplitude value is obtained based on the above three amplitude values (S8). In this case, the appropriate position is calculated by the following calculation from the positions of the three points and the amplitude values at that time. A second beam expander lens that sets the spherical aberration to “0” when the position (x) and the amplitude value (y) of the three points are (x1, y1), (x2, y2), and (x3, y3), respectively. The position x of 16B is calculated from “x = {− B / (2 × A)} × K” from coefficients A and B obtained from the following three equations. This K is a correction coefficient.
y1 = A × (x1) ² + B × x1 + C Equation 1
y2 = A × (x2) ² + B × x2 + C Equation 2
y3 = A × (x3) ² + B × x3 + C Equation 3

Then, based on the obtained proper position, an instruction signal S2 is outputted to the drive circuit 36, and the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to the proper position (S9), thereby correcting the spherical aberration. End the operation.
As described above, by moving the second beam expander lens 16B to an appropriate position obtained from the calculation result, the spherical aberration caused by the thickness shift of the cover layer of the optical disk can be set to “0” in a short time. It becomes possible. Thereafter, the normal playback operation and recording operation are started.

<Second embodiment>
Next, a second embodiment will be described.
In the case of the first embodiment, the amplitude value of the S-characteristic, that is, a value between the maximum value and the minimum value is obtained, and the appropriate position of the second beam expander lens 16B is set so that this amplitude value becomes maximum. In this second embodiment, the amplitude value ratio, which is the ratio of the first amplitude value from the focal point of the S-shaped characteristic to the maximum value and the second amplitude value from the focal point to the minimum value, is maximum. Thus, the appropriate position of the second beam expander lens 16B is obtained.

  That is, it is possible to correct the spherical aberration using the amplitude value ratio of the amount from the maximum value to the focal point of the focus error signal S1 and the amount from the focal point to the minimum value. When the spherical aberration changes, the amplitude value ratio changes. This amplitude value ratio takes a maximum value at a position where the amount of spherical aberration becomes “0”. Since the profile can be approximated by a quadratic function, the amplitude value ratio is measured at three arbitrary positions of the second beam expander lens 16B, and the position that takes the maximum value of the approximated quadratic function is calculated. The calculated numerical value is multiplied by a correction coefficient to obtain an appropriate position for spherical aberration correction. The correction coefficient at this time is a coefficient due to the characteristic of the amplitude value ratio with respect to the lens position, and is a coefficient for correcting a calculation error due to the asymmetry in the front-rear direction with the maximum value as the axis.

For example, FIG. 4 is a graph showing the relationship between the position of the second beam expander lens 16B and the amplitude value ratio of the focus error signal. As shown in the figure, it has an extreme value with respect to the position change of the second beam expander lens 16B, and becomes a maximum value when the spherical aberration is “0”. Therefore, the extreme value can be calculated by obtaining the ratio of the amplitude values of the three arbitrary positions P1, P2, and P3 in FIG.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 6, steps S1 to S4, S6, S7, and S9 are exactly the same as those in the first embodiment in FIG. 5, and thus the description of each step is omitted here, and steps S5-1, S5- 1 and S8-1 will be mainly described.

  In this second embodiment, if the focus ramp is performed in step S4 and the S-characteristic of the focus error signal is obtained, then in step S5-1, the focus from the focal point to the maximum value in the S-characteristic is obtained. A first amplitude value a and a second amplitude value b from the focal point to the minimum value are obtained. For example, taking the curve X2 in FIG. 2 as an example, the first amplitude value a is “N1” and the second amplitude value b is “N2”.

As described above, when the first and second amplitude values a and b are obtained in step S5-1, next, in step S5-2, the first amplitude value a and the second amplitude value in the S-shaped characteristic are obtained. An amplitude value ratio r which is a ratio to b is obtained. Here, in steps S5-1 and S5-2, the amplitude value ratio is measured by measuring the maximum value, the minimum value, and the focal point in a focus error signal for a fixed time, and a = maximum value-in-focus point, b = In the case of the focal point-minimum value, “r = a / b” is defined when “a ≦ b”, and “r = b / a” is defined when “a> b”. Then, the above operation is repeatedly measured a predetermined number of times, averaged, and the numerical value is stored.
Then, by incrementing “n” by 1 through steps S6 and S7, the above steps S3, S4, S5-1 and S5-2 are repeated, and the second and third points are repeated. Also determines the amplitude value ratio r.

Next, in Step 8-1, an appropriate position of the second beam expander lens 16B having the maximum amplitude value is obtained based on the positions of the three points and the respective amplitude value ratios r. Specifically, the appropriate position of the second beam expander lens 16B for setting the spherical aberration to “0” is calculated from the position of the three points and the amplitude value ratio by the following calculation formula. When the position (x) of the three points and the amplitude value ratio (r) are (x1, r1), (x2, r2), (x3, r3), the second beam expand that sets the spherical aberration to “0”. The position x of the Darrens 16B is calculated from “X = {− E / (2 × D)} × K2” from coefficients D and E obtained from the following three expressions. This K2 is a correction coefficient.
r1 = D × (x1) ² + E × x1 + F Equation 4
r2 = D × (x2) ² + E × x2 + F Equation 5
r3 = D × (x3) ² + E × x3 + F Equation 6
Note that a graph of an approximate expression of a quadratic expression expressed by Expressions 4 to 6 corresponds to the graph shown in FIG. By moving the second beam expander lens 16B to an appropriate position obtained from the above calculation result (S9), it is possible to reduce the spherical aberration caused by the disc cover layer thickness deviation to “0” in a short time. Become.

  Here, in this embodiment, the second beam expander lens 16B is moved to correct the spherical aberration in the beam expander means 16, but this is simply a problem of naming. Since any one of the two beam expander lenses is movable and adjustable, the movable and adjustable lens is defined as the second beam expander lens 16B.

It is a block diagram shown in an example of the optical information recording / reproducing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a graph which shows the relationship between a focus error signal and an objective lens. It is a graph which shows the relationship between the position of the 2nd beam expander lens of a beam expander means, and the amplitude value of the upper half wave of a focus error signal. It is a graph which shows the relationship between the position of the 2nd beam expander lens of a beam expander means, and the amplitude value ratio of a focus error signal. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of 1st Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of 2nd Example of this invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 2 ... Optical information recording / reproducing apparatus, 4 ... Semiconductor laser element, 8 ... Collimator lens, 10 ... Grating, 12 ... Polarizing beam splitter, 14 ... Polarizing beam splitter, 16 ... Beam expander means, 16A ... 1st beam expander lens , 16B ... second beam expander lens, 22 ... objective lens, 28 ... photodetector, 30 ... arithmetic circuit, 32 ... aberration control means, 34 ... drive means, 36 ... drive circuit, 38 ... drive mechanism, 40 ... lead Screw, 42 ... stepping motor, D ... optical disc (optical recording medium), S1 ... focus error signal, S2 ... instruction signal, S3 ... drive signal.

Claims (2)

A beam expander that adjusts the beam width of the laser light emitted from the light source; and an objective lens that focuses the laser light adjusted from the beam width emitted from the beam expander means on an optical recording medium; A photodetector that receives reflected light from the optical recording medium via the beam expander means, an arithmetic circuit that obtains a focus error signal based on an output signal from the photodetector, and the beam expander means; In an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: driving means for moving in the optical axis direction of the laser beam;
The beam expander is moved to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis, and S-characteristics at the respective movement positions are obtained from the focus error signal received from the arithmetic circuit. Each amplitude value is obtained, and the position of the beam expander means that maximizes the amplitude value is obtained based on the obtained three or more amplitude values, and the beam expander means sets the obtained position. As described above, an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising aberration control means for outputting an instruction signal toward the driving means. A beam expander that adjusts the beam width of the laser light emitted from the light source; and an objective lens that focuses the laser light adjusted from the beam width emitted from the beam expander means on an optical recording medium; A photodetector that receives reflected light from the optical recording medium via the beam expander means, an arithmetic circuit that obtains a focus error signal based on an output signal from the photodetector, and the beam expander means; In an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: driving means for moving in the optical axis direction of the laser beam;
The beam expander is moved to at least three arbitrary positions on the optical axis, and S-characteristics at the respective movement positions are obtained from the focus error signal received from the arithmetic circuit. The first amplitude value from the in-focus point to the maximum value and the second amplitude value from the in-focus point to the minimum value in each S-characteristic are obtained, and the ratio between the obtained first and second amplitude values. Aberration control means for obtaining a position of the beam expander means that maximizes the amplitude value ratio and outputting an instruction signal to the drive means so that the beam expander means is set to the obtained position. An optical information recording / reproducing apparatus.

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