Compact-Size Optical Head For Magneto-Optical Disk Drive

Teruo Fujita; Nobuo Takeshita; Morihiro Karaki; Mitsushige Kondo; Kenjiro Kime

doi:10.1117/12.936836

14 January 1987 Compact-Size Optical Head For Magneto-Optical Disk Drive

Teruo Fujita, Nobuo Takeshita, Morihiro Karaki, Mitsushige Kondo, Kenjiro Kime

Proceedings Volume 0695, Optical Mass Data Storage II; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936836
Event: 30th Annual Technical Symposium, 1986, San Diego, United States

Abstract

A compact-size optical head for magneto-optical disk drives has been developed. The head is designed to be built into a disk drive which is of the same size as a full-height, 5.25" floppy disk drive. By using a newly developed semiconductor laser that can radiate a beam with a small divergent angle and of small eccentricity, we have attained simplification of a collimating system and ease of assembly. To obtain a high readout carrier-to-noise ratio, we have adopted the differential readout method and the high frequency superposition method. Moreover, to stabilize a focus servo system when a focused spot traverses guide grooves, we have chosen the pupil obscuration method for focus error detection. With these technologies, continuous irradiation of 8mW onto a disk surface and a carrier-to-noise ratio in excess of 50dB within 30kHz bandwidth have been achieved.

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Teruo Fujita, Nobuo Takeshita, Morihiro Karaki, Mitsushige Kondo, and Kenjiro Kime "Compact-Size Optical Head For Magneto-Optical Disk Drive", Proc. SPIE 0695, Optical Mass Data Storage II, (14 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936836

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