The optical pickup unit is a kind of mass-produced product as well as a diffraction-limited micro-optical system.
Thus the optical elements are assembled serially in the production line, and its fabricating and assembling errors should
be controlled to achieve a diffraction-limited focus spot on the disk. And the reflected light from the disk on the photo
detector would be converted and processed in the servo control system and evaluated using the electrical evaluator. Thus
a correlation between the electrical evaluator and the spot intensity should be considered when setting the testing
standard for a production line.
In this paper, the optical pickup is measured using a spot analyzing system. Its electrical signals are described in the
evaluator. The optical system in the optical pickup would be divided into two testing parts: base part and focusing part.
The base part includes the laser diode, collimator, prism, quarter-wave-plate, beam splitter and reflective mirror; while
the focusing part has objective lens, phase plate, wave-plate, and so on. The focus quality is measured using the spot
analyzer. Then these optical pickups are processed to get the electrical signals directly from the evaluator. Finally the
parameters achieved using these two systems are compared and its correlation are investigated. This method is verified
when designing a DVD production line and might be useful in establishing the standards for a new optical pickup.
The NVD(Next generation Versatile Disc) OPU(Optical Pick-Up),based on general red light, is able to read a new type of disk which has 15 GB capacity with 2 layers on one side. The linear span of the focus error signal of original NVD OPU light path is shorter than the requirement proposed by the electron servo system. Increasing the thickness of the tilted-parallel-plate to broaden the linear span will increase the coma aberration which will deteriorate the servo accuracy. Furthermore, the thickness of the tilted-parallel-plate is related to the coexistence of DVD and CD servo signal. Therefore, an aberration-compensated and multi-freedom servo lens for NVD OPU is necessary.
The servo lens proposed in this paper is a single lens, which the first surface is a combination of cylindrical surface and tilted surface, and the rear surface is a common spherical surface. According to the conversion of Zernike-to-Seidel wavefront aberration, a given amount of astigmatism will be achieved by bending the curvature of the cylindrical surface to broaden the linear span, and the coma will be corrected by the tilted surface. The function of the spherical surface is guaranteeing the coexistence of DVD and CD servo signal. Finally, the specification of the servo lens and simulation result of the whole system will be addressed.
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