Patent ID: 6370104
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G02B,G11B

Abstract:
An optical pickup head employing multiple wavelengths for data access from an optical record medium, comprising:a plurality of laser sources generating linearly polarized laser beams with different wavelengths; a cemented birefringent prism located on the light path of said optical pickup head, consisting of two birefringent prisms made of double-refraction material, for refracting said linearly polarized laser beams into an incident branch and splitting any of said laser beams and a reflected branch reflected from said optical record medium; a plurality of objective lenses located on the light path of said optical pickup head for focusing said laser beams onto said optical record medium; a plurality of quarter-wavelength plates arranged one-by-one corresponding to said objective lenses for making the polarizations of said incident branch and said reflected branch orthogonal, each located on the light path of said optical pickup head between said cemented birefringent prism and said corresponding objective lens; and a photo detector located on the light path of said optical pickup head for transferring the optical signals of said reflected branch to electric signals.