Patent ID: 9196286
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk information device that performs at least one of reproducing information from an optical disk or recording information to the optical disk, the optical disk having groove-shaped tracks and allowing information to be recorded on land portions and groove portions of the grooves, the optical disk information device comprising: a laser light source that emits a luminous flux with a wavelength λ; an objective lens having a numerical aperture NA and condensing the luminous flux emitted by the laser light source to form a condensing spot on the optical disk; a splitting element having a central portion area and at least two end portion areas between which the central portion area is sandwiched to split reflected light that is reflected and diffracted by the optical disk into a luminous flux corresponding to the central portion area and luminous fluxes corresponding to the end portion areas; a photodetector having a central portion light receiving section that receives the luminous flux from the central portion area and at least two end portion light receiving sections that receive the luminous fluxes from the end portion areas, to output light amount signals corresponding to amounts of light in the received luminous fluxes; a central portion amplifier that receives the light amount signal from the central portion light receiving section and amplifies the light amount signal by a predetermined gain to output a central portion amplified signal; at least two end portion amplifiers that receive the light amount signals from the end portion light receiving sections and amplify the light amount signals by a predetermined gain to output end portion amplified signals; a gain controller that controls the gains of the central portion amplifier and the end portion amplifiers; an adder that adds the central portion amplified signal from the central portion amplifier and the end portion amplified signals from the end portion amplifiers together and outputs an information signal; a reproduction signal processing section that processes the information signal and outputs a reproduction signal; and a control signal processing section that receives the reflected light that is reflected and diffracted by the optical disk to produce a focusing control signal and a tracking control signal, wherein the control signal processing section includes a tracking switcher that inverts a polarity of the tracking control signal depending on whether a track scanned by the condensing spot corresponds to the land portion or the groove portion, when the polarity of the tracking control signal is inverted, the gain controller switches the gains of the central portion amplifier and the end portion amplifiers and sets the gain of the central portion amplifier substantially lower than the gain of at least one of the end portion amplifiers so as to reduce crosstalk from adjacent tracks in the optical disk, a groove pitch in the optical disk is denoted by Gp, and (Gp/2)<(1.2•λ)/(2•NA), the splitting element is divided into three areas in a direction corresponding to a radial direction of the optical disk and includes the central portion area and the two end portion areas, the central portion area is divided into three areas in a direction corresponding to a tangential direction of the optical disk, and includes a center portion area and two central end portion areas between which the center portion area is sandwiched, the photodetector includes a center portion light receiving section that receives a luminous flux from the center portion area, two central end portion light receiving sections that receive luminous fluxes from the two central end portion areas, and two end portion light receiving sections that receive luminous fluxes from the two end portion areas, and outputs light amount signals corresponding to amounts of light in the received luminous fluxes, the central portion amplifier receives the light amount signal from the center portion light receiving section and amplifies the light amount signal by a predetermined gain to output a central portion amplified signal, the end portion amplifiers include: two first end portion amplifiers that receive the light amount signals from the two end portion light receiving sections and amplify the light amount signals by a predetermined gain to output end portion amplified signals; and two second end portion amplifiers that receive the light amount signals from the two central end portion light receiving sections and amplify the light amount signals by a predetermined gain to output central end portion amplified signals, the adder adds together the amplified signals from the central portion amplifier, the first end portion amplifiers, and the second end portion amplifiers, and outputs an information signal, and when the polarity of the tracking control signal is inverted, the gain controller switches the gains of the central portion amplifier, the first end portion amplifiers, and the second end portion amplifiers and sets the gain of the central portion amplifier substantially lower than the gain of at least one of the first and second end portion amplifiers so as to reduce crosstalk from the adjacent tracks in the optical disk.