WO2000003391A1 - Focusing method for optical media - Google Patents
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- WO2000003391A1 WO2000003391A1 PCT/US1998/014203 US9814203W WO0003391A1 WO 2000003391 A1 WO2000003391 A1 WO 2000003391A1 US 9814203 W US9814203 W US 9814203W WO 0003391 A1 WO0003391 A1 WO 0003391A1
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- G—PHYSICS
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- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B7/00—Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor
- G11B7/08—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers
- G11B7/09—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track following
- G11B7/0945—Methods for initialising servos, start-up sequences
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- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B7/00—Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor
- G11B2007/0003—Recording, reproducing or erasing systems characterised by the structure or type of the carrier
- G11B2007/0009—Recording, reproducing or erasing systems characterised by the structure or type of the carrier for carriers having data stored in three dimensions, e.g. volume storage
- G11B2007/0013—Recording, reproducing or erasing systems characterised by the structure or type of the carrier for carriers having data stored in three dimensions, e.g. volume storage for carriers having multiple discrete layers
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- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B7/00—Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor
- G11B7/08—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers
- G11B7/09—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track following
- G11B7/0908—Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track following for focusing only
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- This invention relates to methods for reading data from an optical storage medium such as a compact disc.
- it relates to a method for focusing the objective of an optical pick- up head when more than one information layer is present on the optical storage medium.
- Compact discs are typically composite objects having a se ⁇ es of pits impressed into a plastic surface, usually during an injection melding process These pits and the lands between them are arranged in a spiral pattern that can be tracked by a pickup laser beam which advances slowly along a radius of the disc while the disc is spun about an axis through the center of the disc.
- the pit-land surface is coated with a thin reflective metal layer
- the pickup laser beam is reflected from the metal layer coating the pits and lands and the reflection is analyzed to observe the change in reflection intensity associated with a transition from a land to a pit or vice versa.
- the wavelength of light is chosen to cause interference when the laser iUurninates a pit.
- the interference occurs between laser light reflected from the bottom of a pit and light reflected from the areas outside the pits struck by the laser light. Therefore the wavelength of light is not chosen arbitrarily, but is typically related to the depth of the pits
- the length of the pit and or land as it passes under the pickup laser is sensed by photocells and is then interpreted by the CD player's electronics
- Data is encoded onto the compact disc as varying lengths of the pits and lands.
- the data may be analog or digital data.
- a voltage level may correspond to a pit length in an analogue recording, or the length of the pits/lands may represent strings of 0's or l's for the recording of digital data.
- the amount of data that can be encoded onto a disc is limited by the density of pits and lands that can be accurately reproduced, for example by an injection molding procedure, and that can be accurately read by a photocell sensor system. Some error rate can be tolerated if the data is placed on the disc in a redundant format that allows errors to be recognized and corrected. Thus as the pits and lands are decreased in size it becomes necessary as a practical matter to provide greater redundancy in the data until a limit is reached in the amount of data that can be stored on the disc surface.
- Optical media have been proposed in which there are two surfaces of data both of which can be read from a single side of the media.
- This has been proposed in the form of a compact disc having two data bearing surfaces. This is obtained by putting a semi-transmissive coating on the top of the bo ⁇ om layer of the compact disc in its usual orientation (read from below) and using an optically dear adhesive to glue both sides together. The top side is then coated with a normal amount of aluminum. It then becomes a problem to have the optical pickup or reading head select (i.e. focus upon)the proper layer of data in a predictable and reliable manner.
- the optical pickup in a standard compact disc system is required to provide a vertical accuracy of 2 micrometers while the surface of the disc may deviate from planarity by as much as 600 micrometers.
- Different techniques are known, namely use of an astigmatic cylindrical lens, use of a knife edge and Foucault focusing and critical angle focusing.
- One auto-focus system that will be described relies upon an astigmatic cylindrical lens.
- This lens is placed in the path of light reflected from the data bearing surface before it reaches a photodiode array.
- the image reaching the photodiode array is unaffe ⁇ ed by the astigmatism of the cylindrical lens.
- a circular spot strikes the center of the photodiode.
- an elliptical pattern strikes the photodiode array.
- the orientation of the major axis of the ellipse indicates whether the objective is too close or too far from the data surface.
- the photodiode array may comprise light sensitive quadrants, i.e. a rectangular array of four light detection regions.
- a focus error signal is generated.
- This signal is typically formed by first forming two signals indicative of the sum of the signals from opposite diagonals of the photodiode array and then forming a signal representative of the difference between these two signals.
- This focus error signal is then interpreted and used to drive the servo that controls the motion of the pickup head.
- a wedge lens is used in place of the astigmatic lens. The wedge lens splits the returning beam into two beams.
- a linear photodiode array of four components receives the returning light. When there is proper focus the light falls between the array elements. The light strikes the central two components when the pickup head is too close to the data surface and strikes the outer two components when the pickup head is too far from the data surface.
- a focus error signal is formed from the difference between the sum of signals from the two terminal and the two central arrav elements.
- the focus error signal is used in a closed loop circuit to provide information to drive the servo motor to maintain focus. Where there is more than one data surface the focus error signal does not distinguish which of the two or more data layers are being read. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for selectively focusing a pickup head on a desired data layer of an optical medium having multiple layers.
- This invention describes a method for focusing the objective of an optical pick-up head on the desired information layer of an optical emor/ device
- a focus error signal is generated. This focus error signal is used in the closed loop servo mode to maintain proper focus during data recover,' from the optical memory device.
- the basic principle of this invention is to use the focus error signal when the focus servo is in open loop mode to determine the location of the information layers (or layer) and to provide a mechanism for providing a signal which can be used to time / trigger the closing of the focus servo, thus providing focus on the desired layer
- One example of an embodiment of the invention is an application to a dual layer optical disc
- Figure 1 is a cross section showing an optical disc having two data surfaces and the pickup head that reads the data from the disc
- Figure 2 is a graph of the focus error signal as a function of displacement of the objective lens of the pickup head.
- Figure 3 A is a graph of the output of a positive comparator of the focus error signal and a specified high value.
- Figure B is a graph of the output of a negative comparator of the focus error signal and a specified low value.
- Figure 3C is a graph of the logic signal formed from NOR gate output having as input the signals of Figures 3A and 3B.
- Figure 4 is a logic diagram for the comparators and gates of the invention.
- Figure 5 is a flow diagram of the steps needed to jump from any position to any data layer. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
- Figure 1 shows a dual data surfaced compact disc 1 having two layers of data bearing pits and lands indicated as L0 and L 1.
- the pickup head 3 is located below the disc and receives laser light returned by reflection from the surfaces L0 and L 1.
- the pickup head 3 is driven by a servo mechanism which may comprise nothing more than a coil that receives a current which causes the pickup head to move in an external magnetic field of magnets 7.
- the compact disc 1 thus comprises the two data surfaces L0 and L 1 each backed by a reflective layer.
- the reflective layer 9 may be opaque.
- the reflective layer JJ. is semi-transparent. This may be achieved by using a thin metallic film. In this manner light may reach both data layers from the same side of the disc.
- the data layers are typically formed in a polycarbide vinyl (PCV) material ⁇ , 12
- Figure 2 shows the focus error signal generated as the pickup head is displaced.
- the x axis depicts the position of the lens in the pickup head.
- the x direction corresponds to the vertical axis through the pickup head in Figure 1.
- Lens position C is focus on Layer Zero (L0).
- Lens position H is focus on Layer One (LI). Points to the left of C are below L0. Points to the right of C and to the left of H are between L0 and L 1. Points to the right of H are above L 1.
- close is used to refer to a distance from a surface such that if the focus servo loop is closed focus will be acquired on the desired layer. Points between B and D are close to the L0 focus. Points between G and I are close to the LI focus.
- a digital control signal 21 is generated from two comparator circuits 21, 25 and a NOR gate.
- the digital control signal comprises a series of digital control pulses.
- the input 29_to the comparators is the Focus Error Signal (FE).
- FE Focus Error Signal
- Tae Positive Comparator 21 has its threshold set so that the output is high when FE is more positive than a specified value.
- the Negative Comparator threshold is set so that its output is high when FE is more negative than a specified value.
- the inputs 21, 21 to the NOR gate are the outputs of the two comparators 21, 21-
- the NOR output 21 gives an indication of lens position with respect to the information layers L0 and LI If the lens is translated at known velocities the X- axis becomes a time reference. In this case, the NOR output provides a signal to a processor 22 that can be used to trigger the closing of the focus servo loop gate 12, resulting in closing of the servo loop 21 and the disengagement of the lens translation function.
- the processor 22 may also provide translation (i.e.
- a servo controller 15 With the loop gate 22 closedrttie pickup head controller 22 provides focus error signals to the servo controller 21 as well as to comparators 21 and 21-
- the processor 22 also receives instructions from layer selection register 22 whenever it is necessary for the pickup head to read from a particular layer. To focus upon the two data surfaces with accuracy six cases have to be considered. These are charted in Fig. 5 for clarity.
- Case 1 To focus on L0 from a position below L0 a) Translate the lens toward L0 b) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point B
- Case 2 To focus on LI from a position at focus on L0 a) Open focus servo b) Translate the lens toward LI c) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point G
- Case 3 To focus on L0 from a position at focus on LI a) Open focus servo b) Translate the lens toward L0 c) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point D
- Case 4 To focus on LI from a position at focus below L0 a) Translate the lens toward L0 b) Continue translation past L0 c) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point G
- Case 5 To focus on LI from a position at focus above LI. a) Translate the lens toward L 1 b) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point I Case 6 - To focus on L0 from a position at focus above L 1. a) Translate the lens toward LI b) Continue translation past LI c) Switch focus servo to closed loop and disengage lens translation at point D
- the focus error signal can be monitored and the switching can be done at the next X-axis crossing of FE after the specified position point has been passed.
- the method described in this disclosure can be extended to any number of layers. Also it can be used for other types of media, for example multi-layer optical cards. Although the polarity, amplitude and dc offset of the focus error signal may vary from system, to system, the basic principles of the invention can still be applied.
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