Optical element and optical pickup device comprising it

Details Optical element and optical pickup device comprising it Optical element and optical pickup device comprising it

1990-03-28

1992-02-04

Arnold, Bruce Y.

Optical: systems and elements

Diffraction

From grating

360114, 369109, 369110, 359485, G02B 518, G02B 530

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050854968

ABSTRACT:
An optical element comprises a polarization diffraction element that is provided with diffraction gratings that are respectively mounted on different faces of a transparent substrate of a flat plate shape, which grating pitches are equal to each other and approximately equal to the wavelength of an incident light, and which grating lines are parallel. The thickness of the substrate is set such that the difference that occurs between the phases of the P and S polarizations of a light due to the grating, and the difference that occurs between the phases of the two polarizations when the light propagates through the substrate cancel out. The optical pickup device comprising the optical element includes a polarized light detecting unit provided with a diffraction grating which grating pitch is approximately equal to the wavelength of an incident light; a first photodetector that is mounted integrally and virtually in parallel with the substrate, and that receives a zero-order diffracted light produced by the diffraction grating; and a second photodetector that is located in the same plane as the first photodetector and mounted integrally with the first photodetector and the substrate, and that receives a first-order diffracted light produced by the diffraction grating.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4885734 (1989-12-01), Yuzo
patent: 4945527 (1990-07-01), Sunagawa

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