Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Photocell controls its own optical systems
Patent
1980-07-14
1982-11-02
Nelms, David C.
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Photocell controls its own optical systems
369 45, G01J 136
Patent
active
043575331
ABSTRACT:
Electro-optical focus detection apparatus for providing a signal indicative of the magnitude and polarity of focus error in a light beam impinging on a surface, such as a recording surface in a recording or playback system. The detector includes a beam splitter for dividing the beam reflected from the recording surface into two reflected beams of equal power, and includes an aperture placed in the path of the two reflected beams. The first reflected beam converges at a focal point before encountering the aperture and the second reflected beam converges at a focal point after encountering the aperture, both beams thereafter impinging upon separate photodetector elements. The aperture reduces the light incident on the photodetectors from both reflected beams, and the apparatus is so configured that the powers of the reflected beams incident on the photodetector elements are identical when the original beam is in focus on the recording surface. When the original beam moves out of focus with the recording surface, both focal points of the reflected beams move in the same direction, to provide an increase in the light falling on one of the photodetector elements and a decrease in light falling on the other, such that the differential output derived from the photodetector elements provides a signal indicative of the magnitude and polarity of the focus error.
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Clark Ronald J.
Discovision Associates
Nelms David C.
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