Patent ID: 8437236
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: G03H,G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a spatial light modulator that converts an irradiation beam emitted from a light source to a single information beam that carries information; an optical system that causes the single information beam to be collected on an optical-information recording medium including an information recording layer capable of recording the information as hologram by using interference fringes produced due to interference between the single information beam and a plurality of reference beams, and causes each of the reference beams to be irradiated to the optical-information recording medium from mutually different directions so as to intersect with the single information beam in the information recording layer at data recording; a drive unit that drives either one of the optical-information recording medium and the optical system; and a controller that control to cause the light source to emit the irradiation beam and performs angular multiplexing recording of the information in the information recording layer while controlling to drive either one of the optical-information recording medium and the optical system, wherein the optical system further includes a splitter that splits a single irradiation beam into a plurality of reference beams, the splitter splits the single irradiation beam into a first reference beam and a second reference beam, and optical components of the optical system are arranged so as to satisfy a following expression: wherein ζ