Objective lens system of an optical disk device

Details Objective lens system of an optical disk device Objective lens system of an optical disk device

1995-12-13

1997-02-04

Sugarman, Scott J.

Optical: systems and elements

Lens

Including a nonspherical surface

359716, G02B 1318

Patent

active

056004940

ABSTRACT:
An objective lens system used in an optical system of an optical disk device. The objective lens system includes at least one lens element and converges light emitted from a light source onto a reflecting layer of an optical disk. The lens element has an offense against the sine condition OSC, and the optical disk has a substrate thickness T and a refractive index n. A ray of light exits the lens element and intersects an optical axis of the lens element at an angle .alpha.. The values of OSC, .alpha., n and T satisfy the following relationship for light rays that are incident on the objective lens system at distances from the optical axis of the objective lens system which are least equal to a predetermined percentage of an effective height of an aperture of the objective lens: ##EQU1## Accordingly, a spherical aberration of the optical system is corrected. An offense against the sine condition of only the objective lens is substantially coincident with a spherical aberration of the objective lens such that a coma of only the objective lens is corrected.

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