Optical head device and optical information reproducing device

Abstract

The light emitted from a semiconductor laser is divided by a diffractive optical element into three light beams which are 0th-order light as the main beam and ±1st-order diffracted lights as the sub-beams, and the track error signals by the main beam and the sub-beams are detected, respectively, by a differential phase detection method. By the effect of the diffractive optical element, the light intensity distributions of the main beam and the sub-beams become different when making incidence on an objective lens. Therefore, when there is radial tilt in a disk, the phases of the track error signals by the main beam and the sub-beams are shifted with each other. Based on the shift in the phases of the track error signals, radial tilt of the disk is detected.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a division of application Ser. No. 10 / 437,915, filed May 15, 2003, now pending, and based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-149074, filed May 23, 2002, by Ryuichi Katayama, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. This application claims only subject matter disclosed in the parent application and therefore presents no new matter.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a method for detecting radial tilt of an optical recording medium in an optical head device for performing recording / reproducing on an optical recording medium, an optical head device, and an optical information recording / reproducing device. More specifically, it relates to a method for detecting radial tilt of an optical recording medium in an optical head device, which is capable of detecting radial tilt of a read-only type optical recording medium, an optical hea...

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[0013]An object of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting radial tilt of an optical recording medium in an optical head device, optical head device and an optical information recording / reproducing device, which can obtain excellent signal to noise ratio of the RF signal, through overcoming the above-described problems in a conventional optical head device which is capable of detecting radial tilt of a read-only type optical recording medium.

[0018]The optical information recording / reproducing device of the present invention comprises the optical head device of the present invention as described and a correcting means for correcting radial tilt of the optical recording medium. In the optical information recording / reproducing device of the present invention, the radial tilt of the optical recording medium is corrected so as to prevent adverse effect on the recording / reproducing characteristics using the optical head device of the present invention as described.

[0019]When detecting the radial tilt of the optical recording medium in the optical head device and the optical information recording / reproducing device of the present invention, the main beam used for detecting the RF signal from the optical recording medium can be received by the four light receiving sections. Therefore, the number of current-voltage conversion circuits for the main beam is the same as that in an ordinary optical head device which does not detect radial tilt. As a result, there is no increased noise due to the circuit thereby achieving excellent signal to noise ratio of the RF signal.

[0020]Next, it will be described in short by referring to FIG. 1. Light emitted from a semiconductor laser 1 is divided into three light beams, which are 0th-order light as the main beam and ±1st-order diffracted lights as the sub-beams, and track error signals from each of the main beam and the sub-beams are obtained by a differential phase detection method. By the effect of a diffractive optical element 3a, the intensity distributions of the main beam and the sub-beams differ when making incidence on an objective lens 6. Therefore, when there is radial tilt in a disk 7, the phases of the track error signals by the main beam and the sub-beams are shifted with each other. Based on the phase shift of the track error signals, the radial tilt of the disk 7 is detected. Thereby, it becomes possible to achieve an excellent signal to noise ratio of the RF signal when detecting the radial tilt of read-only type optical recording medium.

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On the other hand, when the optical recording medium tilts against the objective lens in the radial direction, the shape of the focused spot becomes disturbed due to coma aberration caused by a substrate of the optical recording medium so that the recording / reproducing characteristics become deteriorated.

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