WO2013031120A1 - 変調信号検出装置及び変調信号検出方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a modulation signal detection apparatus and a modulation signal detection method for detecting a modulation signal by detecting interference light in which signal light whose intensity or phase is modulated and reference light interfere with each other, and an optical disk
- This is a technology applicable to media, optical data transmission, optical data communication, optical bus, and optical USB (Universal Serial Bus).
- Optical disc media are widely used as large-capacity information recording media. Technological development for increasing the capacity of optical disk media has been performed on CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs by using shorter wavelength laser light and higher numerical aperture (NA) objective lenses. It was. Recently, services using online storage on the Internet called a cloud have been expanding year by year, and further increase in the capacity of storage including HDD (hard disk drive) or flash memory is desired.
- HDD hard disk drive
- flash memory flash memory
- the shortening of the wavelength of laser light has been put into practical use for semiconductor lasers that emit laser light in the ultraviolet region of the 300 nm range.
- light in the ultraviolet region of 300 nm or less is significantly attenuated in the air, a great effect by shortening the wavelength of the laser light cannot be expected.
- a technique for increasing the recording surface density by using a SIL (solid immersion lens) having an NA of 1 or more has been developed.
- Research is also being conducted to increase the recording surface density by using near-field light that occurs in a region smaller than the diffraction limit of light.
- BD-XL has three or four recording surfaces, and further development has been made to increase the capacity by multilayering the recording surfaces. ing.
- the capacity of the optical disk medium As the capacity of the optical disk medium is increased, the amount of signal modulated by reflection on the recording surface of the optical disk medium is further reduced, and the S / N of the reproduction signal is sufficiently increased. It cannot be secured. Accordingly, in order to increase the capacity of the optical disk medium in the future, it is essential to increase the S / N of the detection signal.
- the light from the laser is branched into light that irradiates the optical disk medium (disk light) and light that does not irradiate the optical disk medium (reference light), and the reflected light from the optical disk medium (signal light) and reference Interference with light.
- the weak signal amplitude by signal light is amplified by enlarging the light quantity of reference light.
- FIG. 28 is a diagram showing a configuration of a conventional interference type optical disc apparatus.
- a mirror driving unit 112 for adjusting the optical path length of the reference light is added to the reference light mirror 111 as shown in FIG. is doing.
- the signal amplitude is controlled to always become maximum in response to fluctuations in the optical path length due to surface shake during rotation of the optical disc medium 101 or changes with time in the optical path length due to changes in the surrounding environment such as temperature. .
- Patent Document 3 a corner cube prism is used as a reference light mirror, the corner cube prism is mounted on the same actuator as the objective lens, and the optical path length of the light to be interfered is adjusted according to the type of the optical disk medium or the recording layer to be read. The method is described.
- Patent Document 4 describes a method of stably extracting signal components regardless of phase fluctuations by shifting the phase relationship between signal light and reference light by 90 degrees on four detectors. Yes.
- the reduction in signal light S / N limits the progress in realizing high transfer rate and high density devices.
- a high S / N is required to realize a high transfer rate.
- the phase of the light generated by the laser is changed instead of the method of transmitting data by modulating the intensity of the laser. Modulation and data transmission are becoming mainstream. For this reason, a technique of optical phase control that accurately controls the phase of light on the receiving side and removes the light phase fluctuation factor generated in the communication path becomes important.
- FIG. 29 and 30 are diagrams for explaining signal light modulation in the optical disk medium.
- FIG. 29 is a diagram for explaining an example in which the intensity of signal light is modulated in the optical disc medium
- FIG. 30 is a diagram for explaining an example in which the phase of signal light is modulated in the optical disc medium.
- the intensity of the reflected light is modulated and information is recorded mainly by changing the reflectance of the recording surface 201a as shown in FIG. 29 by the irradiation of the laser beam. That is, information is recorded by forming marks 201m and spaces 201s having different reflectivities on the track of the recording surface 201a.
- the optical disk medium 201 is a rewritable or write-once CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or the like.
- a groove 203g or a hole 203h is formed at a position where light is reflected on the recording surface 203a, whereby the phase of the reflected light is modulated and information is recorded.
- information is recorded by forming continuous grooves 203g or discontinuous holes 203h in which the transmittance or refractive index is changed in the recording surface 203a.
- the detection sensitivity of the signal has a great effect even if the optical path length of the reference light and the optical path length of the signal light are slightly changed by about several tens of nm. receive. This means that the difference between the optical path length of the reference light and the optical path length of the signal light needs to be kept constant with an accuracy of several tens of nanometers.
- there is a variation factor in the optical path length there is a problem that it becomes very difficult to control the optical path length.
- Patent Document 2 discloses a technique in which an optical system is integrated so as to follow the waviness of the recording surface of an optical disk medium, and a slow fluctuation is corrected by an actuator.
- Patent Document 3 a configuration is disclosed in which a corner cube prism is mounted on an actuator of an objective lens, and the optical path of the reference light is changed by the same amount as the optical path of the signal light. Also in the configuration of Patent Document 3, the problem that the optical path length of the reference light and the optical path length of the signal light are changed due to the waviness of the recording surface of the optical disk medium is the same, and practical application is very difficult.
- the optical phase cannot be detected by a method other than the method of detecting the optical phase using optical interference between the signal light and the reference light.
- the wavelength of light used for optical communication, optical bus, or optical disk medium is very short, from several ⁇ m to 400 nm, in the above technique (phase detection technique using reference light using optical interference), reference light and signal.
- Patent Document 4 does not specify the reproduction of the phase-modulated optical disk medium.
- the phase component including the signal component is removed.
- the reciprocal of the tangent obtained from the cosine and sine is obtained and only the phase component of the light is detected. The noise component accompanying this is included, and the noise component must be removed.
- FIG. 31 is a diagram for explaining an example of calculating the phase component of light by arctangent.
- the calculated value of the arc tangent which is the reciprocal of the tangent, has a discontinuous portion with a 2 ⁇ period. For this reason, when the range of the optical path length variation is very large compared to the phase modulation range of a very short wavelength of several ⁇ m to 400 nm, the arctangent output phase is discontinuous due to the phase noise component due to the optical path length variation. The correct output cannot be obtained.
- the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a modulation signal detection device and a modulation signal detection method capable of detecting a modulation signal having a high S / N ratio. is there.
- a modulation signal detection apparatus is a modulation signal detection apparatus that detects a modulation signal component from a signal based on a phase difference component between phase-modulated signal light and non-phase-modulated reference light. , Detecting a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component, and based on the detected phase difference error component, a first signal having the phase difference component as an angle of a cosine function, and a first signal
- a correction unit that corrects a second signal having an angle of the cosine function substantially different by ⁇ / 2
- a phase difference component is calculated from the first signal and the second signal corrected by the correction unit.
- a phase calculation unit, and the correction unit performs correction by rotating the coordinate point indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component. Said first signal and Get the serial second signal.
- the correction unit detects the phase difference error component included in the phase difference component, and based on the detected phase difference error component, the first signal having the phase difference component as the angle of the cosine function; A second signal having a cosine function angle of approximately ⁇ / 2 different from that of the first signal is corrected.
- the phase calculation unit calculates a phase difference component from the first signal and the second signal corrected by the correction unit.
- the correction unit rotates the coordinate points indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component, thereby correcting the first signal and the second signal. Get the signal.
- a phase difference error component which is a phase noise component generated due to an optical path difference variation between the signal light and the reference light, is obtained from the phase difference component between the phase-modulated signal light and the non-phase-modulated reference light. It is possible to cancel, and a modulation signal with a high S / N ratio can be detected.
- Embodiment 1 of this invention It is a figure which shows the structure of the phase difference calculating part in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the phase difference correction
- Embodiment 4 of this invention It is a figure which shows the specific structure of the interference light detection part in Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific structure of the signal processing part in Embodiment 4 of this invention. In Embodiment 4 of this invention, it is a figure which shows the structure of the interference light detection part provided with three detectors. It is a figure which shows the structure of the optical disk apparatus in Embodiment 5 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the interference light detection part in Embodiment 5 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the phase difference calculating part in Embodiment 5 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the optical transmission system in Embodiment 6 of this invention.
- FIG. 1 and FIG. 4 are schematic diagrams showing the configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- the first embodiment will be specifically described.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a phase difference calculation unit in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- the phase difference calculation unit 10 includes a phase difference correction unit 3, a phase calculation unit 6, and a phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 are input to the phase difference correction unit 3.
- the cosine component 1 has a phase difference (optical path difference) ⁇ between the reference light and the signal light.
- the sine component 2 has substantially the same amplitude as the cosine component 1 and has a phase difference that is substantially ⁇ / 2 shifted from the cosine component 1.
- the reason why the shift of the phase difference between the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 is set to approximately ⁇ / 2 phase difference is to consider the accuracy or variation of the optical element.
- optical elements such as a wave plate, a polarizer, and a beam splitter are used.
- a ⁇ / 2 plate does not necessarily cause a phase difference of ⁇ / 2 but may cause a phase difference of ( ⁇ / 2) + ⁇ .
- the cosine component 1 is cos ( ⁇ + ⁇ 1 )
- the sine component 2 is sin ( ⁇ + ⁇ 2 ).
- the phase difference ( ⁇ 1 ⁇ 2 ) added due to the accuracy or variation of the optical element is the S / N of the reproduction signal. If it is within the allowable range, the effects of the present invention can be obtained.
- the signal is modulated into four values ( ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ / 2, ⁇ / 2 ⁇ ⁇ 0, 0 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ / 2, ⁇ / 2 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ )
- the phase difference shift added due to the accuracy or variation of the optical element is allowable in the range of ⁇ ⁇ / 4.
- the phase difference between the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 is approximately ⁇ / 2, which is within the allowable range of the S / N of the reproduction signal.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 generates the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 using the phase difference error component ⁇ output from the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the generated phase difference correction cosine component 4 and phase difference correction sine component 5 are input to the phase calculator 6.
- the phase calculation unit 6 outputs a phase difference component 7.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 performs feedback control for generating the phase difference error component ⁇ based on the output phase difference component 7.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 detects a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component ⁇ .
- the phase difference correction unit 3 uses a first signal (cosine component 1) with the phase difference component ⁇ as an angle of a cosine function, and a first A second signal (sine component 2) having a cosine function angle of approximately ⁇ / 2 with respect to the signal is corrected.
- the phase calculation unit 6 calculates a modulation signal component from the first signal (phase difference correction cosine component 4) and the second signal (phase difference correction sine component 5) corrected by the phase difference correction unit 3. Further, the phase difference error detection unit 8 detects a phase difference error component from the phase difference component calculated by the phase calculation unit 6.
- the phase difference component ⁇ includes both a signal component ⁇ sig obtained by modulating the phase of the signal light and a phase noise component ⁇ noise generated due to an optical path difference variation between the signal light and the reference light.
- the phase difference component ⁇ is expressed by the following equation (1).
- phase noise component ⁇ noise is expressed by the following equation (2).
- the wavelength ⁇ of light is as short as several ⁇ m to 400 nm.
- the optical path difference fluctuation ⁇ L due to waviness of the recording surface of the optical disk medium is as large as several hundred ⁇ m.
- the range of the signal component ⁇ sig is one wavelength (2 ⁇ )
- the amplitude of the waviness of the recording surface is 200 ⁇ m
- the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise is 500 ⁇ . . From this, it can be seen that the phase noise component ⁇ noise has a very large value compared to the signal component ⁇ sig .
- phase difference correction unit 3 corrects the phase difference so that the phase difference component ⁇ does not exceed the 2 ⁇ period discontinuous portion of the arctangent calculation.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of the phase difference correction unit in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes amplifiers 11, 12, 13, 14, addition calculation units 15, 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a second error correction gain calculation unit 18.
- the cosine component 1 input to the phase difference correction unit 3 is input to the amplifier 11 and the amplifier 13.
- the amplifier 11 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇
- the amplifier 13 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇ .
- the sine component 2 input to the phase difference correction unit 3 is input to the amplifier 12 and the amplifier 14.
- the amplifier 12 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇
- the amplifier 14 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇ .
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 calculates the error correction gain ⁇ by the following equation (3) using the phase difference error component ⁇ detected by the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the second error correction gain calculator 18 uses the phase difference error component ⁇ detected by the phase difference error detector 8 to calculate the error correction gain ⁇ by the following equation (4).
- the addition operation unit 15 adds the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ and the sine component 2 multiplied by ⁇ . Thereby, the addition calculation unit 15 outputs the phase difference correction cosine component 4 expressed by the following equation (5).
- the addition operation unit 16 adds the sine component 2 multiplied by ⁇ and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ . As a result, the addition operation unit 16 outputs the phase difference correction sine component 5 expressed by the following equation (6).
- Equations (5) and (6) are obtained by multiplying the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 by the gain calculated based on the phase difference error component ⁇ , respectively, and adding the phase difference from the phase difference component ⁇ . This indicates that the phase difference correction cosine component 4 (first phase difference correction signal Y 1 ) and the phase difference correction sine component 5 (second phase difference correction signal Y 2 ) from which the error component ⁇ has been removed are obtained. Yes.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining phase difference correction on the polar coordinate plane in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the coordinate point indicated by the cosine component 1 (first signal X 1 ) and the sine component 2 (second signal X 2 ) is X, and the phase difference correction cosine component 4 (first phase difference correction signal Y 1 ).
- Y is a coordinate point indicated by the phase difference correction sign component 5 (second phase difference correction signal Y 2 ).
- the coordinate point Y is a coordinate obtained by rotating the coordinate point X by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component ⁇ on the polar coordinate plane.
- the phase difference correcting unit 3 by rotating by an angle corresponding first signal X 1 and the coordinate point indicated by the second signal X 2 to the phase difference error component ⁇ in polar coordinates plane, the first obtaining a phase difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase difference correction signal Y 2 of.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 generates a first error correction gain ⁇ and a second error correction gain ⁇ based on the detected phase difference error component ⁇ , and based on the above equations (5) and (6). to generate a first phase difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase difference correction signal Y 2 representing the first signal X 1 and the second signal X 2, which are corrected.
- the phase calculating unit 6 calculates a phase difference component from the first phase difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase difference correction signal Y 2.
- the phase calculator 6 calculates the phase difference component 7 from the input phase difference correction cosine component 4 and phase difference correction sine component 5 based on the following equation (7).
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of the phase difference error detection unit in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 includes a low-pass filter (LPF) 21 and an amplifier 22.
- the phase difference component 7 calculated by the phase calculator 6 is input to the phase difference error detector 8.
- the LPF 21 outputs a phase noise component ⁇ noise that is a component in a low frequency band with respect to the signal component ⁇ sig from the phase difference component 7 input to the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the LPF 21 outputs a difference between the phase noise component ⁇ noise and the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the LPF 21 extracts a frequency band corresponding to the phase difference error component from the phase difference component. Further, the LPF 21 extracts a frequency band corresponding to a phase difference error component lower than the frequency band corresponding to the modulation signal component included in the phase difference component from the phase difference component.
- the amplifier 22 multiplies the phase difference error component output from the LPF 21 by ⁇ , and outputs the result to the phase difference correction unit 3.
- the gain value ⁇ is a closed loop characteristic 1 composed of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 of FIG. Any value within a range where / (1 + H) is stable.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 can be controlled to cancel the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of the following formula (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side.
- ⁇ noise the second term of the right side of the following formula (8)
- ⁇ the third term of the right side
- phase difference error detection unit 8 of the first embodiment can continuously detect from a minute fluctuation in the range of ⁇ ⁇ , which is on the order of nanometers, to a large fluctuation of ⁇ hundreds of ⁇ on the order of micrometers. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and a high S / N reproduction is possible.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 and the phase difference error detection unit 8 correspond to an example of a correction unit
- the phase calculation unit 6 corresponds to an example of a phase calculation unit
- the LPF 21 is an example of a low-pass filter.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 corresponds to an example of a phase difference error detection unit
- the phase difference correction unit 3 corresponds to an example of a phase difference correction unit.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 has been described with reference to FIG. 2, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- a configuration in which a cosine component and a sine component having a phase difference component ⁇ including a signal component and a phase noise component are corrected into a phase difference correction cosine component and a phase difference correction sine component using a phase difference error component ⁇ . If it is.
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 and the second error correction gain calculation unit 18 shown in FIG. 2 do not use the above equations (3) and (4), but use a lookup table or the like.
- the error correction gains ⁇ and ⁇ may be determined using them.
- the cosine component 1 is multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ and the sine component 2 multiplied by ⁇ are added by the addition calculation unit 16.
- the cosine component 1 may be multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ from the ⁇ component multiplied by ⁇ may be subtracted by the addition operation unit 16. In this case, the same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of the phase difference correction unit in the first modification of the first embodiment.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes amplifiers 11, 12, 13, 14, addition calculation units 15, 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a third error correction gain calculation.
- Unit 31 and an error correction lookup table (LUT) 32.
- the first error correction gain calculator 17 refers to the error correction lookup table (LUT) 32 and calculates the error correction gain ⁇ from the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 outputs the calculated error correction gain ⁇ to the amplifiers 11 and 12 and the third error correction gain calculation unit 31.
- the third error correction gain calculator 31 refers to the error correction LUT 32 and calculates a value obtained by shifting the phase by ⁇ / 2 from the input error correction gain ⁇ as the error correction gain ⁇ .
- the third error correction gain calculator 31 outputs the calculated error correction gain ⁇ to the amplifiers 13 and 14. In this case, the same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the phase difference correction unit in the second modification of the first embodiment.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes multiplication units 41, 42, 43, 44, addition calculation units 15, 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a second error correction gain.
- an arithmetic unit 18 The cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 are A / D converted digital data.
- the multiplier 41 multiplies the cosine component 1 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 42 multiplies the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 43 The component 1 may be multiplied by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplication unit 44 may multiply the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇ .
- the phase calculation unit 6 generates the phase difference component 7 using the above equation (7), but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may include a lookup table that holds in advance a phase difference component 7 obtained as a result of arctangent calculation.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may convert the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 into the phase difference component 7 using a lookup table.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may calculate the phase difference component 7 by performing case classification as in the following Expression (9) or Expression (10).
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 has a stable closed loop characteristic composed of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 of FIG. 1, and the second term on the right side of the above equation (8). Any configuration can be used as long as ( ⁇ noise ) can be controlled to be canceled by the third term ( ⁇ ) on the right side.
- the LPF 21 may be a primary LPF or a secondary or higher LPF.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include a phase compensation unit in order to stabilize the closed loop characteristics.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include an integrator instead of the LPF 21.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the configuration of the phase difference error detection unit in the third modification of the first embodiment.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 includes an LPF 21, an amplifier 22, and an integrator 23.
- the integrator 23 integrates the output from the amplifier 22 and outputs the integrated value to the phase difference correction unit 3. That is, the phase difference error detection unit 8 multiplies the phase difference error component by a predetermined ⁇ , and integrates the phase difference error components multiplied by ⁇ . Then, the phase difference correction unit 3 generates a first error correction gain ⁇ and a second error correction gain ⁇ based on the accumulated phase difference error component. In this case, the same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained.
- phase difference error detection unit 8 only needs to have a configuration capable of separating noise components other than signal components.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include a band elimination filter (BEF), a band pass filter (BPF), or a high pass filter (HPF) that can remove the frequency band of the signal component.
- BEF band elimination filter
- BPF band pass filter
- HPF high pass filter
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may separate a noise component other than a signal component by converting a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal using Fourier transform and dividing a band in the frequency domain.
- the waviness of the recording surface of the optical disc medium has been described as an example of the fluctuation factor due to the disturbance.
- the fluctuation component in the frequency band lower than the modulation signal which has a fluctuation factor such as a temperature change, Cancellation is possible by the configuration of the first embodiment.
- phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 may be integrated in one LSI (Large Scale Integration).
- the functions of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 may be realized by a computer executable program and a computer.
- FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the phase difference calculation process in the phase difference calculation unit shown in FIG.
- the programs of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 are represented by the flowchart shown in FIG.
- step S1 the phase difference correction unit 3 receives input of the cosine component 1 (Acos ⁇ ) and the sine component 2 (Asin ⁇ ).
- step S2 the phase difference correction unit 3 adds a value obtained by multiplying the cosine component 1 by the error correction gain ⁇ and a value obtained by multiplying the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇ , and thereby the phase difference correction cosine component.
- 4 (Acos ( ⁇ )) is calculated, and the value obtained by multiplying the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇ is subtracted from the value obtained by multiplying the cosine component 1 by the error correction gain ⁇ , thereby obtaining the phase difference correction sine component 5 (Asin ( ⁇ )) is calculated.
- step S3 the phase calculator 6 calculates the phase difference component 7 ( ⁇ ) by calculating the arc tangent of the value obtained by dividing the phase difference correction sine component 5 by the phase difference correction cosine component 4. To do.
- step S 4 the phase calculation unit 6 outputs the calculated phase difference component 7 as a modulation signal to the outside of the phase difference calculation unit 10 and outputs the calculated phase difference component 7 to the phase difference error detection unit 8. To do.
- step S5 the control unit determines whether or not to end the phase difference calculation process.
- the control unit is provided inside or outside the phase difference calculation unit 10. If it is determined that the phase difference calculation process is to be ended (YES in step S5), the phase difference calculation process is ended.
- step S6 the phase difference error detection unit 8 converts the phase difference error component from the phase difference component 7 calculated by the phase calculation unit 6. ⁇ is detected.
- step S7 the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 calculates the error correction gain ⁇ by the above equation (3) using the phase difference error component ⁇ detected by the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the second error correction gain calculator 18 calculates the error correction gain ⁇ by the above equation (4) using the phase difference error component ⁇ detected by the phase difference error detector 8. Then, the process returns to step S1, and inputs of cosine component 1 (Acos ⁇ ) and sine component 2 (Asin ⁇ ) are accepted.
- Embodiment 2 9 and 10 are schematic diagrams showing the configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. The second embodiment will be specifically described below.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration of the phase difference calculation unit in the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference calculation unit 20 includes a phase difference correction unit 51 and a phase calculation unit 6.
- the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 are input to the phase difference correction unit 51.
- the cosine component 1 has a phase difference (optical path difference) ⁇ between the reference light and the signal light.
- the sine component 2 has substantially the same amplitude as the cosine component 1 and has a phase difference that is substantially ⁇ / 2 shifted from the cosine component 1.
- the phase difference correction unit 51 generates a phase difference correction cosine component 52 and a phase difference correction sine component 53 using the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the generated phase difference correction cosine component 52 and phase difference correction sine component 53 are input to the phase calculator 6.
- the phase calculation unit 6 outputs a phase difference component 7.
- the phase difference correction unit 51 includes LPFs 61 and 62, amplifiers 63, 64, 65 and 66, and addition calculation units 67 and 68.
- the LPF 61 generates a signal according to the phase noise component ⁇ noise other than the signal component ⁇ sig from the cosine component 1 input to the phase difference correction unit 51 and outputs the signal.
- the LPF 62 generates a signal according to the phase noise component ⁇ noise other than the signal component ⁇ sig from the sine component 2 input to the phase difference correction unit 51 and outputs the signal.
- the LPF 61 and the LPF 62 can ideally separate the frequency band of the signal component ⁇ sig and the frequency band of the phase noise component ⁇ noise , the following expression (11) is established. Therefore, the phase noise component ⁇ noise itself is treated as the phase difference error component ⁇ , and the phase noise component ⁇ noise can be suppressed.
- Signal according to the phase noise component phi noise generated by the LPF61 includes an error correction gain ⁇ next to the amplifier 63, the signal according to the phase noise component phi noise generated by the LPF 62, the error correction of the amplifier 65, 66 Gain ⁇ .
- the error correction gain ⁇ and the error correction gain ⁇ are expressed by the following equations (12) and (13).
- the amplifier 63 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇
- the amplifier 64 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇
- the amplifier 65 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇
- the amplifier 66 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇ .
- Outputs from the amplifiers 63, 64, 65, and 66 are expressed by the following equations (14) to (17).
- Output from the amplifier 63 A 2 cos ⁇ cos ⁇ (14) Output from the amplifier 64: A 2 sin ⁇ cos ⁇ (15) Output from the amplifier 65: A 2 cos ⁇ sin ⁇ (16) Output from amplifier 66: A 2 sin ⁇ sin ⁇ (17)
- the addition operation unit 67 adds the output from the amplifier 63 and the output from the amplifier 66. As a result, the addition operation unit 67 outputs the phase difference correction cosine component 52 expressed by the following equation (18).
- the addition operation unit 68 subtracts the output from the amplifier 65 from the output from the amplifier 64. As a result, the addition operation unit 68 outputs the phase difference correction sine component 53 represented by the following equation (19).
- Equations (18) and (19) are obtained by multiplying cosine component 1 and sine component 2 by a gain according to phase difference error component ⁇ correlated with phase noise component ⁇ noise , respectively. This shows that a phase difference correction cosine component 52 and a phase difference correction sine component 53 obtained by removing the phase difference error component ⁇ from the phase difference component ⁇ are obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 51 detects the first phase difference error component (Acos ⁇ ) from the first signal (cosine component 1), and the second phase difference from the second signal (sine component 2).
- An error component (Asin ⁇ ) is detected, the first signal is corrected based on the detected first phase difference error component, and the second signal is corrected based on the detected second phase difference error component.
- the phase difference correction unit 51 can control to cancel the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of Expression (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side, as in the first embodiment. It becomes possible. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- the phase difference correction unit 51 of the second embodiment has a micrometer order of ⁇ several hundreds from a minute variation in the range of ⁇ ⁇ that is nanometer order. Even large fluctuations in ⁇ can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and a high S / N reproduction is possible.
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 and the first error correction gain calculation unit 18 as shown in FIG. 2 of the first embodiment perform cosine transformation on the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the sine conversion is unnecessary, and the cosine component and the sine component according to the phase noise component can be directly handled.
- phase difference correction unit 51 corresponds to an example of a correction unit
- phase calculation unit 6 corresponds to an example of a phase calculation unit
- the signal output from the LPF 61 is directly used as the gain of the amplifiers 63 and 64, and the signal output from the LPF 62 is directly used as the gain of the amplifiers 65 and 66.
- the amplifiers 63, 64, 65, 66 may be configured to suppress the phase noise component ⁇ noise by using a value obtained by amplifying the output signals of the LPF 61 and the LPF 62 by an arbitrary value ⁇ as a gain.
- the amplifiers 63, 64, 65, 66 output from the phase difference correction unit 51 by using as a gain a value amplified by an arbitrary value ⁇ that normalizes the amplitude component A of the output signals of the LPF 61 and the LPF 62.
- the amplitude components of the phase difference correction cosine component 52 and the phase difference correction sine component 53 to be set may be “A”.
- the waviness of the recording surface of the optical disc medium has been described as an example of the fluctuation factor due to the disturbance.
- the fluctuation component in the frequency band lower than the modulation signal which has a fluctuation factor such as a temperature change, Cancellation is possible by the configuration of the second embodiment.
- phase difference correction unit 51 may be configured to be able to separate noise components other than signal components.
- the phase difference correction unit 51 may include a band elimination filter (BEF), a band pass filter (BPF), or a high pass filter (HPF) that can remove the frequency band of the signal component.
- BEF band elimination filter
- BPF band pass filter
- HPF high pass filter
- the phase difference correction unit 51 may separate a noise component other than the signal component by converting a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal using Fourier transform and dividing a band in the frequency domain.
- phase difference correction unit 51 and the phase calculation unit 6 may be integrated in one LSI.
- the functions of the phase difference correction unit 51 and the phase calculation unit 6 may be realized by a computer executable program and a computer.
- FIG. 3 is schematic diagrams showing the configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
- the third embodiment will be specifically described.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the configuration of the phase difference calculation unit in the third embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference calculation unit 30 includes a phase difference correction unit 71 and a phase calculation unit 6.
- the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 are input to the phase difference correction unit 71.
- the cosine component 1 has a phase difference (optical path difference) ⁇ between the reference light and the signal light.
- the sine component 2 has substantially the same amplitude as the cosine component 1 and has a phase difference that is substantially ⁇ / 2 shifted from the cosine component 1.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 generates the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 using the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the generated phase difference correction cosine component 4 and phase difference correction sine component 5 are input to the phase calculator 6.
- the phase calculation unit 6 outputs a phase difference component 7.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 includes amplifiers 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 90, addition calculation units 85, 86, and LPFs 87, 88.
- the amplifier 81 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇
- the amplifier 82 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇
- the amplifier 83 multiplies the cosine component 1 by ⁇
- the amplifier 84 multiplies the sine component 2 by ⁇ .
- the amplifiers 81, 82, 83, and 84 give gains to the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 input to the phase difference correction unit 71 and output them. Outputs from the amplifiers 81, 82, 83, and 84 are expressed by the following equations (20) to (23).
- Output from the amplifier 81 A cos ⁇ cos ⁇ (20)
- Output from the amplifier 82 Asin ⁇ cos ⁇ (21)
- Output from the amplifier 83 A cos ⁇ sin ⁇ (22)
- Output from amplifier 84 Asin ⁇ sin ⁇ (23)
- phase difference error component ⁇ is generated by the LPFs 87 and 88 and the amplifiers 89 and 90.
- the error correction gain ⁇ of the amplifiers 81 and 82 and the error correction gain ⁇ of the amplifiers 83 and 84 are expressed by the following equations (24) and (25).
- the addition operation unit 85 adds the output from the amplifier 81 and the output from the amplifier 84. Thereby, the addition operation unit 85 outputs the phase difference correction cosine component 4 represented by the following equation (26).
- the addition operation unit 86 subtracts the output from the amplifier 83 from the output from the amplifier 82. Thereby, the addition operation unit 86 outputs the phase difference correction sine component 5 expressed by the following equation (27).
- Expressions (26) and (27) are obtained by multiplying the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 by the gain calculated based on the phase difference error component ⁇ , respectively, and adding the phase difference from the phase difference component ⁇ . This shows that the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 from which the error component ⁇ has been removed are obtained.
- the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 output from the addition calculation units 85 and 86 are input to the LPFs 87 and 88, respectively.
- the LPFs 87 and 88 output the phase noise component ⁇ noise , which is a low frequency band component relative to the signal component ⁇ sig , or the difference between the phase noise component ⁇ noise and the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the amplifiers 89 and 90 multiply the respective phase difference error components of the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 output from the LPFs 87 and 88 by ⁇ .
- a value obtained by multiplying the phase difference error component by ⁇ is set as the gain of the amplifiers 81, 82, 83, 84.
- the value of ⁇ at this time is a closed loop characteristic 1 / in the phase difference correction unit 71 when the transfer function by the combination of the LPF 87 and the amplifier 89 is H 1 and the transfer function by the combination of the LPF 88 and the amplifier 90 is H 2.
- An arbitrary value is set in such a range that both (1 + H 1 ) and 1 / (1 + H 2 ) are stable.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 can control to cancel the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of Expression (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side, as in the first embodiment. It becomes possible. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- the phase difference correction unit 71 of the third embodiment can detect ⁇ several hundreds of micrometer orders from minute fluctuations in a range of ⁇ ⁇ that is nanometer order. Even large fluctuations in ⁇ can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and a high S / N reproduction is possible.
- phase difference correction unit 71 corresponds to an example of a correction unit
- phase calculation unit 6 corresponds to an example of a phase calculation unit
- the phase difference correction unit 71 has been described with reference to FIG. 12, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 is stable in the closed loop characteristics of the cosine component and the sine component in the phase difference correction unit 71 of FIG. 11, and the second term ( ⁇ noise ) on the right side of Equation (8) is the third term on the right side.
- Any configuration that can be controlled to cancel by ( ⁇ ) may be used.
- the LPFs 87 and 88 may be primary LPFs or secondary or higher LPFs.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 may include a phase compensation unit in order to stabilize the closed loop characteristics.
- phase difference correction unit 71 may include an integrator instead of the LPFs 87 and 88.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 may include an integrator that integrates the outputs of the amplifiers 89 and 90, and may output the values integrated by the integrators to the amplifiers 81, 82, 83, and 84. Also in this case, the same effect as in the third embodiment can be obtained.
- phase difference correction unit 71 may be configured to be able to separate noise components other than signal components.
- the phase difference correction unit 71 may include a band elimination filter (BEF), a band pass filter (BPF), or a high pass filter (HPF) that can remove the frequency band of the signal component.
- BEF band elimination filter
- BPF band pass filter
- HPF high pass filter
- the phase difference correction unit 71 may separate a noise component other than the signal component by converting a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal using Fourier transform and dividing a band in the frequency domain.
- the undulation of the recording surface of the optical disk medium has been described as an example of the fluctuation factor due to disturbance.
- the fluctuation component in the frequency band lower than the modulation signal which has a fluctuation factor such as a temperature change, Cancellation is possible by the configuration of the third embodiment.
- phase difference correction unit 71 and the phase calculation unit 6 may be integrated in one LSI.
- the functions of the phase difference correction unit 71 and the phase calculation unit 6 may be realized by a computer executable program and a computer.
- FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 are diagrams showing a configuration of a modulation signal detection apparatus in which signal light is modulated by an optical disk medium in Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a configuration of the optical disc apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
- the optical disc apparatus 300 reproduces data from the optical disc medium 301 or records data on the optical disc medium 301 using a clock signal generated from the optical disc medium 301 in which information is recorded.
- the optical disc apparatus 300 includes a disc rotation motor 302, an optical head drive unit 304, a servo circuit 305, an optical head unit 306, and a signal processing unit 316.
- the servo circuit 305 uses the servo error signal to control the lens driving unit 308 so that the light beam condensing state and the scanning state in the objective lens 307 are optimized.
- the servo circuit 305 controls the optical head drive unit 304 so that the optical head unit 306 moves to an optimal radial position of the optical disc medium 301.
- the servo circuit 305 optimally controls the rotational speed of the disk rotation motor 302 based on the radial position on the optical disk medium 301 that irradiates the light beam.
- the optical disk medium 301 has at least one data recording surface. A track is formed on the data recording surface. Information is recorded on the track according to a predetermined data format.
- the optical disk medium 301 has the same configuration as the optical disk medium 203 shown in FIG. FIG. 30 shows an example in which the phase of light is modulated in an optical disk medium. Data is recorded by forming continuous grooves 203g or discontinuous holes 203h in which the transmittance or refractive index is changed in the recording surface 203a. When the signal light is irradiated to the grooves 203g or the holes 203h, the phase-modulated signal light is reflected due to a difference in distance from the incidence to the optical disk medium to the reflection position. The signal light is reflected light from the optical disk medium 301.
- the optical disk medium 301 in the fourth embodiment is not limited to the optical disk medium 203 shown in FIG. 30, and an optical disk medium in which the position where the signal light is reflected may be changed.
- the optical disk medium 301 may be an optical disk medium in which the amount of signal light varies depending on the pit depth corresponding to binary values, such as a conventional CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or BD-ROM. In this case, the phase of the reflected light is changed by multi-level modulation of the pit depth.
- the optical disk medium 301 may be an optical disk medium whose reflectance is changed, such as a conventional CD-R / RW, DVD-R / RW / RAM, DVD + R / RW, or BD-R / RE. In this case, the phase of the reflected light changes by changing the position where the reflectance is changed. Even if such an optical disk medium is used, the effect of the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the disk rotation motor 302 rotates the optical disk medium 301 at a specified number of rotations.
- the signal processing unit 316 Based on the interference light detection signal output from the optical head unit 306, the signal processing unit 316 reproduces the data recorded on the optical disk medium 301, the disk rotation motor 302, the optical head drive unit 304, and the lens drive. Servo error signals for controlling the unit 308 are generated.
- the optical head unit 306 includes a laser 309, a polarization beam splitter 310, ⁇ / 4 plates 311 and 312, a reference light mirror 313, an objective lens 307, a lens driving unit 308, and an interference light detection unit 315. .
- the optical head unit 306 irradiates the optical disk medium 301 with a light beam, detects the light that interferes with the signal light reflected from the optical disk medium 301 and the reference light while scanning the track, and outputs an electrical signal.
- the laser 309 emits laser light.
- the polarization beam splitter 310 transmits almost 100% of the horizontally polarized light incident on the separation surface and reflects almost 100% of the vertically polarized light.
- the polarization beam splitter 310 splits the laser light emitted from the laser 309 into vertically polarized signal light and horizontally polarized reference light.
- the branched signal light passes through the ⁇ / 4 plate 311 on the optical path twice, so that the polarization direction is rotated by 90 degrees and returns to the polarization beam splitter 310.
- the branched reference light passes through the ⁇ / 4 plate 312 on the optical path twice so that the polarization direction is rotated by 90 degrees and returns to the polarization beam splitter 310.
- the signal light that has been horizontally polarized is transmitted through the polarization beam splitter 310 and the reference light that has been vertically polarized is the polarization beam splitter. 310 is reflected. And it becomes the interference light by the signal light and the reference light whose polarization planes are orthogonal to each other.
- the polarization plane of the laser light incident on the polarization beam splitter 310 can be changed by changing the intensity ratio between the signal light and the reference light by rotating the laser 309 in advance.
- the objective lens 307 condenses the signal light on the optical disc medium 301 and makes the signal light reflected from the optical disc medium 301 into parallel light.
- the signal light converted into parallel light returns the optical path of the signal light in the forward path.
- the objective lens 307 is driven in the focus direction and the tracking direction by the lens driving unit 308.
- ⁇ / 4 plates 311 and 312 transmit light to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light and convert circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light.
- the linearly polarized light passes through the ⁇ / 4 plates 311 and 312 twice and becomes linearly polarized light whose polarization plane is rotated by 90 degrees. For example, vertical polarization is converted to horizontal polarization, and horizontal polarization is converted to vertical polarization.
- the reference light mirror 313 reflects almost 100% of the reference light branched from the laser light.
- the reference light reflected by the reference light mirror 313 returns on the same optical path as the forward path.
- the interference light detection unit 315 detects the combined light of the signal light reflected from the optical disc medium 301 and the reference light reflected from the reference light mirror 313, and outputs an electrical signal.
- the interference light detection unit 315 detects interference light in which at least three phase differences between the signal light and the reference light are different, and outputs an electrical signal.
- FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a specific configuration of the interference light detection unit 315 according to the fourth embodiment.
- the interference light detection unit 315 illustrated in FIG. 14 includes a half beam splitter (HBS) 321, a ⁇ / 2 plate 322, a ⁇ / 4 plate 323, a first PBS 324, a second PBS 325, and a first detection. 326, second detector 327, third detector 328, fourth detector 329, first arithmetic circuit 330, second arithmetic circuit 331, and phase difference arithmetic unit 10 Is provided.
- HBS half beam splitter
- the HBS 321 reflects and transmits the incident combined light (interference light) with almost the same intensity in two directions.
- the ⁇ / 2 plate 322 rotates the polarization direction of the combined light transmitted through the HBS 321 by 45 degrees.
- the first PBS 324 transmits almost 100% of the horizontal polarization of the combined light whose polarization direction is rotated by 45 degrees, and reflects almost 100% of the vertical polarization.
- the first detector 326 and the second detector 327 output an electrical signal corresponding to the amount of incident light.
- the first detector 326 detects light that interferes with the horizontal polarization direction of the combined light whose polarization direction is rotated by 45 degrees, and outputs an electric signal corresponding to the light amount.
- the second detector 327 detects light that interferes with the vertical polarization direction of the combined light whose polarization direction is rotated by 45 degrees, and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the light amount.
- the first arithmetic circuit 330 outputs a differential signal between the electrical signal output from the first detector 326 and the electrical signal output from the second detector 327.
- the ⁇ / 4 plate 323 rotates the polarization direction of the combined light reflected from the HBS 321 by 45 degrees, and ⁇ / 2 (90 degrees) between the signal light component and the reference light component of each of the vertically polarized light and the horizontally polarized light. Give the phase difference.
- the second PBS 325 transmits almost 100% of the horizontally polarized light of the combined light that has passed through the ⁇ / 4 plate 323 and reflects almost 100% of the vertically polarized light.
- the third detector 328 and the fourth detector 329 output an electrical signal corresponding to the amount of incident light.
- the third detector 328 detects light that has interfered with the horizontal polarization direction of the combined light that has passed through the ⁇ / 4 plate 323, and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the amount of light.
- the fourth detector 329 detects light that has interfered with the vertical polarization direction of the combined light that has passed through the ⁇ / 4 plate 323, and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the amount of light.
- the second arithmetic circuit 331 outputs a differential signal between the electrical signal output from the third detector 328 and the electrical signal output from the fourth detector 329.
- the phase difference calculation unit 10 performs a calculation based on the electric signal output from the first calculation circuit 330 and the electric signal output from the second calculation circuit 331, and outputs an interference light detection signal.
- E d is the electric field of the signal light reflected from the optical disc medium 301
- Ad is the amplitude component of the electric field of the signal light
- E m is the electric field of the reference light reflected by the reference mirror 313
- a m is the amplitude component of the electric field of the reference beam.
- ⁇ represents a phase component related to the wavelength ⁇ , time t and location z of the laser light
- ⁇ sig represents a signal component phase-modulated by the optical disc medium 301
- ⁇ noise S and ⁇ noise M are optical path difference fluctuations, etc. Represents a phase noise component caused by a phase difference fluctuation between the electric field of the signal light and the electric field of the reference light caused by the above.
- the Jones vector of the light transmitted through the HBS 321 and transmitted through the ⁇ / 2 plate 322 is expressed by the following equation (29).
- the ⁇ / 2 plate 322 is arranged so that the direction of 22.5 degrees is the fast axis when viewed from the horizontal polarization direction.
- the fast axis is a vibration direction in which light travels fast in the wave plate.
- the vibration direction in which light travels slowly is called the slow axis.
- the electric field of the light that passes through the first PBS 324 and the electric field of the light that reflects the first PBS 324 are expressed by the following equations (30) and (31), respectively.
- the detection signals of the first detector 326 and the second detector 327 are expressed by the following equations (32) and (33).
- Equation (32) and Equation (33) ⁇ is the conversion efficiency of the detector. ⁇ is a phase difference due to the optical path length difference between the signal light and the reference light.
- the differential signal obtained in the first arithmetic circuit 330 based on the detection signals of the first detector 326 and the second detector 327 is expressed by the following equation (34).
- the Jones vector of the light reflected from the HBS 321 and transmitted through the ⁇ / 4 plate 323 is expressed by the following equation (35).
- the ⁇ / 4 plate 323 is arranged so that the direction of 45 degrees is the fast axis when viewed from the horizontal polarization direction.
- the detection signals of the third detector 328 and the fourth detector 329 are expressed by the following expressions (38) and (39).
- the differential signal obtained in the second arithmetic circuit 331 based on the detection signals of the third detector 328 and the fourth detector 329 is expressed by the following equation (40).
- the cosine component and the sine component calculated based on Expression (34) and Expression (40) are input to the phase difference calculation unit 10.
- the phase difference calculator 10 outputs a signal ( ⁇ sig ) in which the phase noise component ⁇ noise is canceled from the phase difference component ⁇ as an interference detection signal.
- the phase difference calculation unit 10 has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof is omitted.
- the modulation code is devised so that the frequency bands of the modulation signal component and the phase difference error component do not overlap in advance. Therefore, the signal component ( ⁇ sig ) and the phase difference error component ( ⁇ noise ⁇ ) can be separated by the simple LPF 21 shown in FIG.
- the control frequency characteristic needs to be about 1/10 of the band of the LPF to be used.
- phase difference error component separation method there is a method in which the reproduction signal always samples a specific level (for example, the zero cross point of the interference light detection signal).
- the phase difference error component detected by the phase difference error detection unit 8 in this way is feedback-controlled by the phase difference correction unit 3 as a phase difference error correction value.
- FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a specific configuration of the signal processing unit according to the fourth embodiment.
- the signal processing unit 316 includes a reproduction signal processing unit 341 and a control signal processing unit 342.
- the reproduction signal processing unit 341 reproduces data recorded on the optical disc medium 301 from the interference light detection signal, and generates a reproduction signal.
- the control signal processing unit 342 generates a servo error signal based on the interference light detection signal, and outputs the generated servo error signal to the servo circuit 305.
- the phase difference correction unit of the phase difference calculation unit 10 cancels out the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of Expression (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side, as in the first embodiment. It becomes possible to control to. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- phase difference error detection unit of the fourth embodiment as in the first embodiment, from a minute fluctuation in the range of ⁇ ⁇ which is a nanometer order to a large fluctuation of ⁇ hundreds of ⁇ in the micrometer order, It can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and an optical disc apparatus capable of reproducing at a high S / N is possible.
- the optical disk device 300 corresponds to an example of a modulation signal detection device
- the half beam splitter 321 corresponds to an example of a branching unit
- the third detector 328 and the fourth detector 329 correspond to an example of at least three detectors
- the first arithmetic circuit 330 and the second arithmetic circuit 331 correspond to an example of a detection signal arithmetic unit.
- the intensity ratio between the signal light on the polarization plane of the laser light incident on the polarization beam splitter 310 and the reference light can be changed by rotating the laser 309 in advance.
- the optical head unit 306 may include a ⁇ / 2 plate between the laser 309 and the polarization beam splitter 310. As described above, by rotating the ⁇ / 2 plate, the polarization plane of the laser light may rotate, and the intensity ratio between the signal light and the reference light may be varied.
- the undulation of the recording surface of the optical disk medium has been described as an example of the fluctuation factor due to the disturbance.
- the fluctuation component in the frequency band lower than the modulation signal which is caused by a temperature change or the like, Cancellation is possible with the configuration of the fourth embodiment.
- the signal processing unit 316 is disposed outside the optical head unit 306, but the optical head unit 306 may include the signal processing unit 316.
- the phase difference calculation unit 10 in the interference light detection unit 315 is arranged in the optical head unit 306, but the phase difference calculation unit 10 is arranged outside the optical head unit 306. May be.
- the phase difference calculation unit 10 and the signal processing unit 316 may be integrated in one LSI.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 has been described with reference to FIG. 4, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 has a stable closed loop characteristic including the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 of FIG. 1, and the second term ( ⁇ of the right side of Expression (8)) Any configuration can be used as long as it can be controlled to cancel out ( noise ) by the third term ( ⁇ ) on the right side.
- the LPF 21 may be a primary LPF or a secondary or higher LPF.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include a phase compensation unit in order to stabilize the closed loop characteristics.
- phase difference error detection unit 8 may include an integrator instead of the LPF 21. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include an integrator 23 that integrates the outputs from the amplifier 22 and outputs the integrated value to the phase difference correction unit 3. Also in this case, the same effect as in the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 has been described with reference to FIG. 2, but the present invention is not limited to this. Any configuration may be used as long as the cosine component and the sine component having the phase difference component ⁇ are corrected to the phase difference correction cosine component and the phase difference correction sine component by using the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 and the second error correction gain calculation unit 18 shown in FIG. 2 do not use the above equations (3) and (4), but use a lookup table or the like.
- the error correction gains ⁇ and ⁇ may be determined using them.
- the cosine component 1 is multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ and the sine component 2 multiplied by ⁇ are added by the addition calculation unit 16.
- the cosine component 1 may be multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ from the ⁇ component multiplied by ⁇ may be subtracted by the addition operation unit 16. In this case, the same effect as in the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes amplifiers 11, 12, 13, and 14, addition calculation units 15 and 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a third error correction.
- a gain calculation unit 31 and an error correction lookup table (LUT) 32 may be provided.
- the first error correction gain calculator 17 refers to the error correction look-up table (LUT) 32 and calculates an error correction gain ⁇ from the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the third error correction gain calculator 31 refers to the error correction LUT 32 and calculates a value obtained by shifting the phase by ⁇ / 2 from the input error correction gain ⁇ as the error correction gain ⁇ . In this case, the same effect as in the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes multiplication units 41, 42, 43, and 44, and an addition calculation unit. 15, 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a second error correction gain calculation unit 18 may be provided.
- the multiplier 41 may multiply the cosine component 1 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 42 may multiply the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 43 may 1 may be multiplied by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplication unit 44 may multiply the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇ .
- the phase calculation unit 6 generates the phase difference component 7 using the above equation (7), but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may include a lookup table that holds in advance a phase difference component 7 obtained as a result of arctangent calculation.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may convert the phase difference correction cosine component 4 and the phase difference correction sine component 5 into the phase difference component 7 using a lookup table.
- the phase calculation unit 6 may calculate the phase difference component 7 by performing case classification as in the above formula (9) or formula (10).
- the noise component other than the signal component is separated by the LPF 21 of the phase difference error detection unit 8, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 only needs to have a configuration capable of separating noise components other than signal components.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may include a band elimination filter (BEF), a band pass filter (BPF), or a high pass filter (HPF) that can remove the frequency band of the signal component.
- the phase difference error detection unit 8 may separate a noise component other than a signal component by converting a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal using Fourier transform and dividing a band in the frequency domain.
- the signal processing unit 316 may be configured to be integrated in one LSI.
- phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 may be integrated in one LSI.
- the functions of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 may be realized by a computer executable program and a computer.
- the programs of the phase difference correction unit 3, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference error detection unit 8 are represented by the flowchart shown in FIG.
- the interference light detector 315 may include three or more detectors, and each detector may detect the interference light so that the phase difference between the signal light and the reference light is different from each other.
- the interference light detection unit 315 detects a branching unit that branches the interference light between the signal light and the reference light into at least three lights, and at least three lights branched by the branching unit, and according to the detected light amount And at least three detectors for outputting the detected signals, respectively, and a detection signal calculation unit for calculating the first signal and the second signal based on the detection signals output by the at least three detectors.
- the phase difference between the signal light and the reference light at each detector is a combination of 0 degrees, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees, or -120 degrees, 0 degrees. And a combination of 120 degrees.
- the interference light detection unit 315 includes four detectors as shown in FIG. 14, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the interference light detection unit 315 includes three or more interference light detection units 315.
- the cosine component and the sine component can be generated by the detectors.
- FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an interference light detection unit including three detectors in Embodiment 4 of the present invention. At this time, the phase difference between the signal light and the reference light on each detector is 0, 2 ⁇ / 3, and 4 ⁇ / 3.
- the interference light detector 450 shown in FIG. 16 includes non-polarizing beam splitters 451 and 452, polarizers 453, 454, and 455, a phase plate 456, a phase plate 457, a first detector 458, and a second detector A detector 459, a third detector 460, a detection signal calculator 461, and a phase difference calculator 10 are provided.
- the polarizers 453, 454, and 455 transmit 45-degree polarized light.
- the phase plate 456 generates a phase difference of 5 ⁇ / 3 between the signal light and the reference light.
- the phase plate 457 generates a phase difference of ⁇ / 3 between the signal light and the reference light.
- the non-polarizing beam splitter 451 splits the interference light incident on the interference light detection unit 450 at a 2: 1 intensity ratio.
- the ratio of the reflected light and transmitted light of the non-polarizing beam splitter 451 is 2: 1.
- the ratio between the reflected light and the transmitted light is the intensity division ratio.
- the non-polarizing beam splitter 451 generates a phase difference of ⁇ between the signal light and the reference light with respect to the reflected light.
- the light reflected by the non-polarizing beam splitter 451 enters the non-polarizing beam splitter 452.
- the non-polarizing beam splitter 452 divides the incident light at a 1: 1 intensity ratio.
- the ratio of the reflected light and transmitted light of the non-polarizing beam splitter 452 is 1: 1.
- the ratio between the reflected light and the transmitted light is the intensity division ratio.
- the non-polarizing beam splitter 452 generates a phase difference of ⁇ between the signal light and the reference light with respect to the reflected light.
- the light transmitted through the non-polarizing beam splitter 452 enters the polarizer 455.
- the polarizer 455 transmits only 45-degree polarized light out of the incident light.
- the light transmitted through the polarizer 455 is detected by the first detector 458.
- the first detector 458 since the light detected by the first detector 458 is reflected by the non-polarizing beam splitter 451, there is a phase difference of ⁇ between the signal light and the reference light.
- the light reflected by the non-polarizing beam splitter 452 enters the phase plate 456.
- the phase plate 456 generates a phase difference of 5 ⁇ / 3 between the signal light and the reference light with respect to the incident light.
- the signal light and the reference light which are the sum of the phase difference due to reflection at the non-polarization beam splitter 451, the phase difference due to reflection at the non-polarization beam splitter 452, and the phase difference due to transmission through the phase plate 456, are combined.
- the polarizer 454 transmits only 45-degree polarized light in the incident light.
- the light transmitted through the polarizer 454 is detected by the second detector 459.
- the light transmitted through the non-polarizing beam splitter 451 enters the phase plate 457.
- the phase plate 457 generates a phase difference of ⁇ / 3 between the signal light and the reference light with respect to the incident light.
- Light having a phase difference of ⁇ / 3 between the signal light and the reference light is incident on the polarizer 453.
- the polarizer 453 transmits only 45-degree polarized light in the incident light.
- the light transmitted through the polarizer 453 is detected by the third detector 460.
- the intensity of light detected by each detector is expressed by the following equations (41) to (43).
- the detection signal calculation unit 461 Based on the following formulas (44) and (45), the detection signal calculation unit 461 generates signals I A , detected by the first detector 458, the second detector 459, and the third detector 460.
- a cosine component (Acos ⁇ ) and a sine component (Asin ⁇ ) are calculated from I B and I C.
- the interference light detection unit 315 is not limited to the configuration shown in FIG.
- a ⁇ / 2 plate and a ⁇ / 4 plate are used as optical elements for obtaining a signal having a different phase difference between the signal light and the reference light.
- a composite optical functional element such as an optical waveguide may be used.
- the interference light detection unit 315 and the signal processing unit 316 may be configured to be integrated into one LSI in which an optical waveguide, an electric circuit, and an electronic circuit are integrated.
- the configuration of the phase difference calculation unit 10 has been described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 4.
- the present invention is not limited to this.
- a configuration in which a cosine component and a sine component having a phase difference component ⁇ having a signal component and a phase noise component are corrected into a phase difference correction cosine component and a phase difference correction sine component using a phase difference error component ⁇ . If it is.
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 and the second error correction gain calculation unit 18 shown in FIG. 2 do not use the above equations (3) and (4), but use a lookup table or the like.
- the error correction gains ⁇ and ⁇ may be determined using them.
- the cosine component 1 is multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ and the sine component 2 multiplied by ⁇ are added by the addition calculation unit 16.
- the cosine component 1 may be multiplied by ⁇ by the amplifier 13, and the cosine component 1 multiplied by ⁇ from the ⁇ component multiplied by ⁇ may be subtracted by the addition operation unit 16. In this case, the same effect as in the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes amplifiers 11, 12, 13, and 14, addition calculation units 15 and 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a third error correction.
- a gain calculation unit 31 and an error correction lookup table (LUT) 32 may be provided.
- the first error correction gain calculator 17 refers to the error correction look-up table (LUT) 32 and calculates an error correction gain ⁇ from the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the third error correction gain calculator 31 refers to the error correction LUT 32 and calculates a value obtained by shifting the phase by ⁇ / 2 from the input error correction gain ⁇ as the error correction gain ⁇ . In this case, the same effect as in the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 includes multiplication units 41, 42, 43, and 44, and an addition operation as shown in FIG. Units 15 and 16, a first error correction gain calculation unit 17, and a second error correction gain calculation unit 18 may be provided.
- the multiplier 41 may multiply the cosine component 1 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 42 may multiply the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplier 43 may 1 may be multiplied by the error correction gain ⁇
- the multiplication unit 44 may multiply the sine component 2 by the error correction gain ⁇ .
- phase difference calculation unit may have the configuration shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 or the configuration shown in FIGS. 11 and 12. In this case, the same effect as that of the fourth embodiment can be obtained.
- FIG. 5 17 is diagrams showing a configuration of a modulation signal detection apparatus in which signal light is modulated by an optical disk medium in Embodiment 5 of the present invention.
- FIGS. 13 and 14 the same components as those in FIGS. 13 and 14 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.
- FIG. 19 the same components as those in FIG.
- FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a configuration of the optical disc apparatus according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention.
- FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a specific configuration of the interference light detection unit according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the configuration of the phase difference calculation unit in the fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- the optical disc apparatus 400 reproduces data from the optical disc medium 301 or records data on the optical disc medium 301 using a clock signal generated from the optical disc medium 301 in which information is recorded.
- the optical disk device 400 includes a disk rotation motor 302, an optical head drive unit 304, a servo circuit 305, an optical head unit 351, and a signal processing unit 316.
- the optical head unit 351 includes a laser 309, a polarization beam splitter 310, ⁇ / 4 plates 311 and 312, a reference light mirror 313, an objective lens 307, a lens driving unit 308, an interference light detection unit 315, a focus A circuit 352.
- the interference light detection unit 315 includes a half beam splitter (HBS) 321, a ⁇ / 2 plate 322, a ⁇ / 4 plate 323, a first PBS 324, and a second PBS 325.
- the phase difference calculation unit 360 includes a phase difference correction unit 3, a phase calculation unit 6, a phase difference error detection unit 8, and a focus error signal generation unit 361.
- the focus circuit 352 performs focus control of the lens driving unit 308 based on the focus error signal output from the phase difference calculation unit 360 (see FIG. 18) in the interference light detection unit 315.
- the focus error signal generation unit 361 generates a focus error signal based on the phase difference error component ⁇ output from the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- the phase difference error component ⁇ is correlated with the phase noise component ⁇ noise detected by the phase difference error detection unit 8.
- a major factor of the phase noise component ⁇ noise is an optical path difference variation caused by waviness or warpage of the recording surface of the optical disc medium 301. Therefore, the focus error signal generation unit 361 can handle the phase difference error component ⁇ detected by the phase difference error detection unit 8 as a focus error signal.
- the phase difference correction unit 3 can control to cancel the second term ( ⁇ noise ) on the right side of Equation (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) on the right side. It becomes possible. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- phase difference error detection unit 8 of the fifth embodiment similarly to the first embodiment, from a minute fluctuation in the range of ⁇ ⁇ , which is in the nanometer order, to a large fluctuation of ⁇ several hundreds of ⁇ in the micrometer order. , Can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and a high S / N reproduction is possible. Further, in the fifth embodiment, focus control using the phase difference error component ⁇ is possible.
- the optical disk device 400 corresponds to an example of a modulation signal detection device
- the half beam splitter 321 corresponds to an example of a branching unit
- the third detector 328 and the fourth detector 329 correspond to an example of at least three detectors
- the first arithmetic circuit 330 and the second arithmetic circuit 331 correspond to an example of a detection signal arithmetic unit.
- FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an optical transmission system 370 according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention.
- FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the optical transmitter illustrated in FIG. 20.
- FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of the transmission light modulation unit illustrated in FIG.
- FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus shown in FIG.
- FIG. 23 the same components as those in FIGS. 13 and 14 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
- the optical transmission system 370 includes an optical transmitter 371, an optical transmission path 372, and a modulation signal detection device 373.
- the optical transmitter 371 outputs a phase-modulated optical signal.
- the optical signal output from the optical transmitter 371 is input to the modulation signal detection device 373 via the optical transmission path 372.
- the optical transmitter 371 illustrated in FIG. 21 includes a laser 391, a transmission control unit 392, a transmission light modulation unit 393, a transmission signal processing unit 394, and a modulation control unit 395.
- the transmission signal processing unit 394 receives transmission data.
- the transmission signal processing unit 394 that has received the transmission data notifies the transmission control unit 392 that data transmission is to be performed, generates a phase modulation signal based on the transmission data, and outputs the generated phase modulation signal to the modulation control unit 395.
- the transmission control unit 392 controls the laser 391 so that the transmission light is emitted from the laser 391.
- the transmission light emitted from the laser 391 is guided to the transmission light modulation unit 393.
- the modulation control unit 395 performs phase modulation on the transmission light by changing the refractive index of the transmission light modulation unit 393 based on the received phase modulation signal.
- the transmission light is phase-modulated by the transmission light modulation unit 393 and becomes signal light.
- the transmission light modulation unit 393 phase-modulates the transmission light by changing the refractive index, but the present invention is not limited to this.
- the transmission light modulation unit 393 may phase-modulate the transmission light by changing the actual optical path length using, for example, a plurality of optical elements such as mirrors or optical fibers. In this case also, the effect of the present invention is realized. it can.
- the transmission light modulation unit 393 includes an entrance mirror 401, a drive mirror 402, and an exit mirror 403.
- the transmission light incident on the transmission light modulation unit 393 is reflected by the incident mirror 401 and travels toward the drive mirror 402.
- the drive mirror 402 further reflects the transmission light reflected by the incident mirror 401 toward the exit mirror 403.
- the drive mirror 402 can be driven in a direction substantially parallel to the optical axis of the light reflected by the incident mirror 401.
- a method for driving the drive mirror 402 is not particularly limited.
- the transmission light reflected by the drive mirror 402 is reflected by the output mirror 403.
- the transmission light reflected by the output mirror 403 is output from the transmission light modulator 393 as signal light.
- the geometric distance through which the transmission light passes is determined by the position of the drive mirror 402. Therefore, when the position of the drive mirror 402 is changed by an actuator or the like, the optical path length of the transmission light changes, and the phase of the output signal light can be made different from the phase of the transmission light.
- the modulation signal detection device 373 includes a polarization beam splitter (PBS) 381, a reference light laser 382, an interference light detection unit 315, and a signal processing unit 383.
- PBS polarization beam splitter
- the horizontally polarized signal light is input to the modulation signal detection device 373.
- the signal light is obtained by phase-modulating the light according to data to be transmitted to the modulation signal detection device 373.
- the PBS 381 transmits almost 100% of horizontally polarized light and reflects almost 100% of vertically polarized light.
- the polarization direction of the reference light output from the reference light laser 382 is a vertical direction substantially orthogonal to the signal light.
- the horizontally polarized signal light is transmitted through the PBS 381 and the vertically polarized reference light is reflected from the PBS 381, so that a combined light of the signal light and the reference light is generated.
- the wavelength of the reference light is approximately the same as the wavelength of the signal light so as to interfere with the signal light.
- Equation (46) E d is the electric field of the signal light, and A d is the amplitude component of the electric field of the signal light.
- E m is the electric field of the output reference light from the reference light laser 382
- a m is the amplitude component of the electric field of the reference beam.
- ⁇ represents a phase component related to the wavelength ⁇ , time t and location z of the laser light
- ⁇ sig represents a phase-modulated signal component
- ⁇ noise S and ⁇ noise M are signal lights caused by optical path difference fluctuations and the like. Represents a phase noise component due to a phase difference variation between the electric field of the reference light and the electric field of the reference light.
- the combined light generated by the PBS 381 enters the interference light detection unit 315.
- the interference light detection unit 315 generates a plurality of interference lights having different phase differences from the incident combined light, converts the light amounts of the generated plurality of interference lights into electrical signals, and generates an interference light detection signal.
- the configuration of the interference light detector 315 is shown in FIG.
- the configurations of the interference light detection unit 315 and the phase difference calculation unit 10 are the same as the configurations of the interference light detection unit and the phase difference calculation unit in the fourth embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
- the phase difference correction unit of the phase difference calculation unit 10 cancels out the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of Expression (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side, as in the first embodiment. It becomes possible to control to. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- phase difference error detection unit of the sixth embodiment similarly to the first embodiment, from a minute fluctuation in the range of ⁇ ⁇ that is on the order of nanometers to a large fluctuation on the order of ⁇ several hundreds of ⁇ , It can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and an optical transmission system capable of reproducing at a high S / N is possible.
- the modulation signal detection device 373 corresponds to an example of the modulation signal detection device.
- the modulation signal detection device 373 is not limited to the configuration shown in FIG.
- FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating another configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus according to the sixth embodiment.
- the signal light is not necessarily incident on the modulation signal detection device 373 with horizontal polarization due to external characteristics such as the characteristics of the optical transmission path 372 or temperature. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 24, the signal light whose polarization direction is controlled by the polarization controller 420 is incident on the PBS 381. As a result, it is possible to suppress loss due to fluctuations in the polarization direction of the signal light.
- the 24 includes a PBS 381, a reference light laser 382, an interference light detector 315, a signal processor 384, and a polarization controller 420.
- the polarization controller 420 includes a ⁇ / 2 plate 421, a PBS 422, a detector 423, a control signal generator 424, and a controller 425.
- the polarization direction of the signal light incident on the polarization controller 420 is not always horizontally polarized due to various disturbances in the optical transmission path 372.
- the polarization controller 420 controls the polarization direction of the indeterminate signal light so as to be horizontally polarized.
- the rotation of the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 is controlled by the control unit 425.
- the control unit 425 controls the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 so that the fast axis is ⁇ degrees when viewed from the horizontal polarization direction.
- the signal light transmitted through the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 is guided to the PBS 422.
- the PBS 422 transmits almost 100% of horizontally polarized light and reflects almost 100% of vertically polarized light. If the signal light transmitted through the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 is completely horizontal polarized light, the signal light transmits almost 100% through the PBS 422.
- the polarization plane of the signal light is slightly inclined from the horizontal direction, light reflected by the PBS 422 appears.
- the detector 423 detects the light reflected by the PBS 422 and outputs an electrical signal.
- the control signal generation unit 424 generates a control signal for controlling the rotation of the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 so that the signal output from the detector 423 is minimized.
- the generated control signal is input to the control unit 1205.
- the control unit 425 controls the signal light to be horizontally polarized by rotating the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 according to the control signal.
- the polarization controller 420 includes the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 and the controller 425 that rotates the ⁇ / 2 plate 421 in order to rotate the polarization plane of the signal light.
- the present invention is not limited to this.
- the polarization controller 420 may rotate the plane of polarization using an element using a Faraday effect that rotates a plane of polarization of linearly polarized light parallel to the magnetic field by applying a magnetic field.
- the effect of suppressing the loss of signal light can be obtained by using an element that can control the polarization plane of the signal light.
- the interference light detector 315 may include three or more detectors, and each detector may detect the interference light so that the phase difference between the signal light and the reference light is different from each other. .
- the interference light detection unit 315 includes three detectors, the phase difference between the signal light and the reference light at each detector is a combination of 0 degrees, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees, or -120 degrees, 0 degrees. And a combination of 120 degrees.
- the interference light detection unit may be configured to include three detectors as shown in FIG. Since FIG. 16 has already been described in the fourth embodiment, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.
- FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating another configuration of the optical transmission system according to the sixth embodiment.
- the optical transmission system 410 illustrated in FIG. 25 includes a plurality of optical transmitters 371, a wavelength multiplexing unit 411, an optical transmission path 372, a wavelength separation unit 412, and a plurality of modulation signal detection devices 373.
- each optical transmitter 371 modulates transmission lights having different wavelengths and outputs them as signal lights.
- the signal light output from each optical transmitter 371 is input to the modulation signal detection device 373 corresponding to each wavelength, and the modulation signal is reproduced. In this way, data can be transmitted in parallel.
- Each optical transmitter 371 outputs signal light having different wavelengths.
- a plurality of signal lights output from each optical transmitter 371 are input to the wavelength multiplexing unit 411.
- the wavelength multiplexing unit 411 multiplexes a plurality of input signal lights.
- the combined signal light is input to the wavelength separator 412 via the optical transmission path 372.
- the wavelength separation unit 412 separates the input combined signal light into signal light for each wavelength, and outputs the separated signal light to each modulation signal detection device 373.
- the modulation signal detector 373 receives the signal light separated by the wavelength separation unit 412.
- the interference light detection unit 315 is not limited to the configuration shown in FIG.
- a ⁇ / 2 plate and a ⁇ / 4 plate are used as optical elements for obtaining a signal having a different phase difference between the signal light and the reference light.
- a composite optical functional element such as an optical waveguide may be used.
- the interference light detection unit 315 and the signal processing unit 383 may be configured to be integrated into one LSI in which an optical waveguide, an electric circuit, and an electronic circuit are integrated.
- a part or all of the modulation signal detection device 373 may be integrated into one LSI in which an optical waveguide, an electric circuit, and an electronic circuit are integrated.
- FIG. 7 is schematic diagrams showing the configuration of the modulation signal detection apparatus according to Embodiment 7 of the present invention.
- the seventh embodiment will be specifically described.
- FIG. 26 is a diagram showing a configuration of the phase difference calculation unit in the seventh embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference calculation unit 430 includes a phase difference error detection unit 431, a phase calculation unit 6, and a phase difference correction unit 432.
- the cosine component 1 and the sine component 2 are input to the phase difference error detection unit 431 and the phase calculation unit 6.
- the cosine component 1 has a phase difference (optical path difference) ⁇ between the reference light and the signal light.
- the sine component 2 has substantially the same amplitude as the cosine component 1 and has a phase difference that is substantially ⁇ / 2 shifted from the cosine component 1.
- the phase calculation unit 6 outputs a phase difference component ⁇ .
- the detailed configuration of the phase calculation unit 6 is the same as the configuration of the first embodiment, and the description in the seventh embodiment is omitted.
- the phase difference error detection unit 431 detects and outputs the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- FIG. 27 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the interference light detection unit according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention.
- the phase difference error detection unit 431 illustrated in FIG. 27 includes a first error detection unit 441, a second error detection unit 442, and an arc tangent calculation unit 443.
- the first error detector 441 generates a signal according to the phase noise component ⁇ noise other than the signal component ⁇ sig from the cosine component 1 input to the phase difference error detector 431. Generate and output.
- the second error detection unit 442 follows the phase noise component ⁇ noise other than the signal component ⁇ sig from the sine component 2 input to the phase difference error detection unit 431 based on the following equation (48). Generate and output a signal.
- the first error detection unit 441 and the second error detection unit 442 for example, the frequency band of the signal component ⁇ sig And a low-pass filter (LPF) that can ideally separate the frequency band of the phase noise component ⁇ noise and an amplifier that amplifies the signal separated by the LPF with an arbitrary value ⁇ .
- LPF low-pass filter
- the signal output (A cos ⁇ ) according to the phase noise component ⁇ noise generated by the first error detection unit 441 is output to the arctangent calculation unit 443. Further, the signal output (Asin ⁇ ) according to the phase noise component ⁇ noise generated by the second error detection unit 442 is output to the arctangent calculation unit 443.
- the arc tangent calculation unit 443 outputs a phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the arctangent calculation unit 443 has the same function as the phase calculation unit 6 in the first embodiment. Therefore, the description of the arctangent calculation unit 443 is omitted in the seventh embodiment.
- the phase difference correction unit 432 calculates the following equation (49) based on the phase difference component ⁇ output from the phase calculation unit 6 and the phase difference error component ⁇ output from the phase difference error detection unit 431. To generate and output a phase difference signal Sig with the phase difference corrected.
- the signal component ⁇ sig is modulated within a range of ⁇ ⁇ . Therefore, the phase difference correction unit 432 corrects the value of ⁇ by adding or subtracting 2 ⁇ to ⁇ when ⁇ exceeds the range ( ⁇ ⁇ range) of the signal component ⁇ sig. To do. Thereby, the reproduced modulated signal is prevented from becoming discontinuous due to the discontinuous portion of the arctangent calculation.
- the phase difference correction unit 432 can perform control so as to cancel the second term ( ⁇ noise ) of the right side of Expression (8) by the third term ( ⁇ ) of the right side, as in the first embodiment. It becomes possible. As a result, it is possible to reproduce a modulated signal that does not cause a discontinuity in arctangent calculation regardless of the range of the phase noise component ⁇ noise that is much larger than the signal component ⁇ sig .
- phase difference error detection unit 431 is similar to the first embodiment, from a minute fluctuation in a range of ⁇ ⁇ which is a nanometer order to a large fluctuation of ⁇ a few hundreds of ⁇ in a micrometer order. It can be detected continuously. Therefore, it is possible to suppress a nanometer-order phase noise component that is very difficult to follow with an actuator, and a high S / N reproduction is possible.
- the first error correction gain calculation unit 17 and the first error correction gain calculation unit 18 as shown in FIG. 2 of the first embodiment perform cosine transformation on the phase difference error component ⁇ .
- the sine conversion is unnecessary, and the phase difference error component ⁇ according to the phase noise component can be directly handled.
- phase difference correction unit 432 and the phase difference error detection unit 431 correspond to an example of a correction unit
- the phase calculation unit 6 corresponds to an example of a phase calculation unit
- the phase difference error detection unit 431 corresponds to an example of a phase difference correction unit.
- the phase difference correction unit 432 corresponds to an example of a phase difference correction unit.
- the waviness of the recording surface of the optical disk medium has been described as an example of the fluctuation factor due to the disturbance. Cancellation is possible with the configuration of the seventh embodiment.
- the first error detection unit 441 and the second error detection unit 442 use LPF to separate noise components other than signal components, but the present invention is not limited to this. Not.
- the first error detection unit 441 and the second error detection unit 442 may have any configuration that can separate noise components other than signal components.
- the first error detection unit 441 and the second error detection unit 442 may use a band removal filter (BEF) or a band pass filter (BPF) that can remove the frequency band of the signal component.
- BEF band removal filter
- BPF band pass filter
- HPF high-pass filter
- the first error detection unit 441 and the second error detection unit 442 use Fourier transform to convert a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal and divide a band in the frequency domain, so that noise other than the signal component is obtained. The components may be separated.
- phase difference error detection unit 431, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference correction unit 432 may be integrated in one LSI.
- the functions of the phase difference error detection unit 431, the phase calculation unit 6, and the phase difference correction unit 432 may be realized by a computer executable program and a computer.
- a modulation signal detection apparatus is a modulation signal detection apparatus that detects a modulation signal component from a signal based on a phase difference component between phase-modulated signal light and non-phase-modulated reference light. , Detecting a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component, and based on the detected phase difference error component, a first signal having the phase difference component as an angle of a cosine function, and a first signal
- a correction unit that corrects a second signal having an angle of the cosine function substantially different by ⁇ / 2
- a phase difference component is calculated from the first signal and the second signal corrected by the correction unit.
- a phase calculation unit, and the correction unit performs correction by rotating the coordinate point indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component. Said first signal and Get the serial second signal.
- the correction unit detects the phase difference error component included in the phase difference component, and based on the detected phase difference error component, the first signal having the phase difference component as the angle of the cosine function; A second signal having a cosine function angle of approximately ⁇ / 2 different from that of the first signal is corrected.
- the phase calculation unit calculates a phase difference component from the first signal and the second signal corrected by the correction unit.
- the correction unit rotates the coordinate points indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component, thereby correcting the first signal and the second signal. Get the signal.
- phase difference error component which is a phase noise component generated due to an optical path difference variation between the signal light and the reference light
- the correction unit includes a phase difference error detection unit that detects a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component, and the phase difference error detected by the phase difference error detection unit. It is preferable that a phase difference correction unit that corrects the first signal and the second signal based on a component is included.
- the phase difference error detection unit detects a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component.
- the phase difference correction unit corrects the first signal and the second signal based on the phase difference error component detected by the phase difference error detection unit.
- phase difference error detection unit and the phase difference correction unit can be configured as mutually different components, and the first phase difference error detection unit uses the phase difference error component detected by the phase difference error detection unit.
- the signal and the second signal can be corrected.
- the phase difference error detection unit detects the phase difference error component from the phase difference component calculated by the phase calculation unit.
- phase difference error component is detected from the phase difference component calculated by the phase calculation unit, it is possible to repeatedly perform correction so that the phase difference error component included in the phase difference component becomes zero. it can.
- the correction unit detects a first phase difference error component from the first signal, detects a second phase difference error component from the second signal, and detects the first phase difference error component from the second signal. It is preferable that the first signal is corrected based on the first phase difference error component and the second signal is corrected based on the detected second phase difference error component.
- the first phase difference error component is detected from the first signal
- the second phase difference error component is detected from the second signal, and based on the detected first phase difference error component
- the first signal is corrected
- the second signal is corrected based on the detected second phase difference error component
- the phase difference error component can be detected from each of the first signal and the second signal, and each of the first signal and the second signal can be corrected using each detected phase difference error component. it can.
- the correction unit extracts a frequency band corresponding to the phase difference error component from the phase difference component.
- the phase difference error component since the frequency band corresponding to the phase difference error component is extracted from the phase difference component, the phase difference error component can be easily detected.
- the correction unit includes a low-pass filter that extracts, from the phase difference component, a frequency band corresponding to the phase difference error component that is lower than a frequency band corresponding to the modulation signal component. It is preferable.
- the phase noise component that is the frequency band is extracted. can do.
- the phase calculating unit it is preferable that difference the first retardation correction signal Y 1 and the second phase from the correction signal Y 2 calculates the phase difference component.
- the first error correction gain ⁇ and the second error correction gain ⁇ are generated based on the detected phase difference error component, and the corrected first signal X is calculated based on the above equation.
- difference 1 and the second first representative of the signal X 2 of the phase-difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase correction signal Y 2 is generated.
- the first phase difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase difference component from the phase difference correction signal Y 2 is calculated.
- the first phase difference correction signal Y 1 and the second phase difference correction signal Y 2 in which the phase difference error component is removed from the phase difference component can be easily calculated based on the above formula.
- the correction unit multiplies the phase difference error component by a predetermined value, integrates the phase difference error component multiplied by the predetermined time, and based on the integrated phase difference error component, It is preferable to generate the error correction gain ⁇ and the second error correction gain ⁇ .
- the first error correction gain ⁇ and the second error correction gain ⁇ can be generated based on the accumulated phase difference error component.
- a branching unit that branches the interference light between the signal light and the reference light into at least three lights, and the at least three lights branched by the branching unit, respectively, At least three detectors that respectively output detection signals corresponding to the detected light amounts, and the first signal and the second signal are calculated based on the detection signals output by the at least three detectors. It is preferable to further include a detection signal calculation unit.
- the branching unit branches the interference light between the signal light and the reference light into at least three lights.
- At least three detectors respectively detect at least three branched lights and output detection signals corresponding to the amounts of the detected lights.
- the detection signal calculation unit calculates the first signal and the second signal based on the detection signals output by at least three detectors.
- the first signal and the second signal can be calculated by using three lights having different phase differences between the signal light and the reference light.
- the signal light is preferably reflected light from an optical disk medium.
- the data recorded on the optical disk medium is detected by detecting the modulation signal component from the signal based on the phase difference component between the signal light phase-modulated by the information recording surface of the optical disk medium and the reference light. Can be played.
- the signal light is preferably obtained by phase-modulating light according to data to be transmitted to the modulation signal detection device.
- the signal light is obtained by modulating the light according to the data to be transmitted to the modulation signal detection device, the data can be transmitted using the light.
- a modulation signal detection method is a modulation signal detection method for detecting a modulation signal component from a signal based on a phase difference component between phase-modulated signal light and non-phase-modulated reference light.
- a phase difference error detecting step for detecting a phase difference error component included in the phase difference component; and a first signal having the phase difference component as an angle of a cosine function based on the detected phase difference error component.
- a correction step for correcting the second signal with an angle of the cosine function of approximately ⁇ / 2 with respect to the first signal, and the first signal corrected in the correction step and the second signal A phase calculation step of calculating a phase difference component from the signal, wherein the correction step corresponds to a coordinate point indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane as the phase difference error component. Corner In by rotating to obtain the corrected first signal and the second signal.
- the phase difference error component included in the phase difference component is detected in the phase difference error detection step.
- the correction step based on the detected phase difference error component, the first signal having the phase difference component as the angle of the cosine function and the second signal having a cosine function angle different from the first signal by approximately ⁇ / 2.
- a phase difference component is calculated from the corrected first signal and second signal.
- the coordinate points indicated by the first signal and the second signal on the polar coordinate plane are rotated by an angle corresponding to the phase difference error component, whereby the corrected first signal and the first signal are corrected. Two signals are obtained.
- phase difference error component which is a phase noise component generated due to an optical path difference variation between the signal light and the reference light
- the modulation signal detection apparatus and the modulation signal detection method according to the present invention can suppress phase noise components by signal processing, can amplify weak signal light, and are phase-modulated with phase-modulated signal light.
- the present invention is useful as a modulation signal detection apparatus and a modulation signal detection method for detecting a modulation signal component from a signal based on a phase difference component with respect to a reference light that is not.
- the modulation signal detection apparatus and modulation signal detection method according to the present invention are useful as a modulation signal detection apparatus and modulation signal detection method for improving the reproduction performance of a large-capacity optical storage.
- the modulation signal detection apparatus and modulation signal detection method according to the present invention can also be applied to optical transmission applications such as optical communication or an optical bus.
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図1、図2及び図4は、本発明の実施の形態1における変調信号検出装置の構成を示す概略図である。以下、本実施の形態1について具体的に説明する。
β=sinδ・・・・(4)
図9及び図10は、本発明の実施の形態2における変調信号検出装置の構成を示す概略図である。以下、本実施の形態2について具体的に説明する。
β=Asinδ・・・・(13)
アンプ64からの出力:A2sinΔφcosδ・・・・(15)
アンプ65からの出力:A2cosΔφsinδ・・・・(16)
アンプ66からの出力:A2sinΔφsinδ・・・・(17)
図11及び図12は、本発明の実施の形態3における変調信号検出装置の構成を示す概略図である。以下、本実施の形態3について具体的に説明する。
アンプ82からの出力:AsinΔφcosδ・・・・(21)
アンプ83からの出力:AcosΔφsinδ・・・・(22)
アンプ84からの出力:AsinΔφsinδ・・・・(23)
β=sinδ・・・・(25)
図13及び図14は、本発明の実施の形態4において、光ディスク媒体によって信号光が変調される変調信号検出装置の構成を示す図である。
反射(垂直偏光):(Ed-Em)/2・・・・(31)
図17、図18及び図19は、本発明の実施の形態5において、光ディスク媒体によって信号光が変調される変調信号検出装置の構成を示す図である。
図20は、本発明の実施の形態6における光伝送システム370の全体構成を示す図である。図21は、図20に示す光送信器の構成を示す図である。図22は、図21に示す送信光変調部の一例を示す図である。図23は、図20に示す変調信号検出装置の構成を示す図である。
図26及び図27は、本発明の実施の形態7における変調信号検出装置の構成を示す概略図である。以下、本実施の形態7について具体的に説明する。
Asinδ=γAsinφnoise・・・・(48)
Y1=αX1+βX2
Y2=αX2-βX1
前記位相演算部は、前記第1の位相差補正信号Y1及び前記第2の位相差補正信号Y2から前記位相差成分を演算することが好ましい。
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- 位相変調された信号光と位相変調されていない参照光との位相差成分に基づいた信号から変調信号成分を検出する変調信号検出装置であって、
前記位相差成分に含まれる位相差誤差成分を検出し、検出した前記位相差誤差成分に基づいて、前記位相差成分を余弦関数の角度とした第1の信号と、前記第1の信号に対して前記余弦関数の角度が略π/2異なる第2の信号とを補正する補正部と、
前記補正部によって補正された前記第1の信号及び前記第2の信号から位相差成分を演算する位相演算部とを備え、
前記補正部は、極座標平面上において前記第1の信号と前記第2の信号とで示される座標点を前記位相差誤差成分に相当する角度で回転させることにより、補正された前記第1の信号及び前記第2の信号を得ることを特徴とする変調信号検出装置。 - 前記補正部は、
前記位相差成分に含まれる位相差誤差成分を検出する位相差誤差検出部と、
前記位相差誤差検出部によって検出された前記位相差誤差成分に基づいて、前記第1の信号と前記第2の信号とを補正する位相差補正部とを含むことを特徴とする請求項1記載の変調信号検出装置。 - 前記位相差誤差検出部は、前記位相演算部によって演算された前記位相差成分から前記位相差誤差成分を検出することを特徴とする請求項2記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記補正部は、前記第1の信号から第1の位相差誤差成分を検出し、前記第2の信号から第2の位相差誤差成分を検出し、検出した前記第1の位相差誤差成分に基づいて前記第1の信号を補正し、検出した前記第2の位相差誤差成分に基づいて前記第2の信号を補正することを特徴とする請求項1記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記補正部は、前記位相差成分から前記位相差誤差成分に対応する周波数帯域を抽出することを特徴とする請求項1~4のいずれかに記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記補正部は、前記位相差成分から、前記変調信号成分に対応する周波数帯域よりも低い前記位相差誤差成分に対応する周波数帯域を抽出するローパスフィルタを含むことを特徴とする請求項5記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記補正部は、検出された前記位相差誤差成分に基づいて第1の誤差補正ゲインα及び第2の誤差補正ゲインβを生成し、下記の式に基づいて、補正された第1の信号X1及び第2の信号X2を表す第1の位相差補正信号Y1及び第2の位相差補正信号Y2を生成し、
Y1=αX1+βX2
Y2=αX2-βX1
前記位相演算部は、前記第1の位相差補正信号Y1及び前記第2の位相差補正信号Y2から前記位相差成分を演算することを特徴とする請求項1~6のいずれかに記載の変調信号検出装置。 - 前記補正部は、前記位相差誤差成分を所定倍し、前記所定倍した位相差誤差成分を積算し、積算した前記位相差誤差成分に基づいて前記第1の誤差補正ゲインα及び前記第2の誤差補正ゲインβを生成することを特徴とする請求項7記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記信号光と前記参照光との干渉光を少なくとも3つの光に分岐する分岐部と、
前記分岐部によって分岐された前記少なくとも3つの光をそれぞれ検出し、検出した光の光量に応じた検出信号をそれぞれ出力する少なくとも3つの検出器と、
前記少なくとも3つの検出器によって出力された検出信号に基づいて前記第1の信号及び前記第2の信号を演算する検出信号演算部とをさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項1~8のいずれかに記載の変調信号検出装置。 - 前記信号光は、光ディスク媒体からの反射光であることを特徴とする請求項1~9のいずれかに記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 前記信号光は、前記変調信号検出装置へ伝送すべきデータに応じて光が位相変調されることで得られることを特徴とする請求項1~9のいずれかに記載の変調信号検出装置。
- 位相変調された信号光と位相変調されていない参照光との位相差成分に基づいた信号から変調信号成分を検出する変調信号検出方法であって、
前記位相差成分に含まれる位相差誤差成分を検出する位相差誤差検出ステップと、
検出された前記位相差誤差成分に基づいて、前記位相差成分を余弦関数の角度とした第1の信号と、前記第1の信号に対して前記余弦関数の角度が略π/2異なる第2の信号とを補正する補正ステップと、
前記補正ステップにおいて補正された前記第1の信号及び前記第2の信号から位相差成分を演算する位相演算ステップとを含み、
前記補正ステップは、極座標平面上において前記第1の信号と前記第2の信号とで示される座標点を前記位相差誤差成分に相当する角度で回転させることにより、補正された前記第1の信号及び前記第2の信号を得ることを特徴とする変調信号検出方法。
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