(5)Resinbody
TheCDbodyhasbeenmadewithcomputer-simulated
technology.Tokeepbodychangestoa minimum,resinhas
beenincorporated.Duetothemounting,materialswere
carefullyselectedandthesamereliabilityasthepreviously-
usedaluminumhasbeenrealized.
Theuseofresinhasmadepossiblemountingconfigurations
thatwerenotpossiblewithaluminum.Thereforetheuseof
adhesiveshasbeengreatlyreducedforimprovedreliability.
2-3RFandservosignal
Fig.
2-3
(2)RFandservosignals
Thebeam,whichhasbeenreducedtoanextremely
smallspotbytheobjectivelens,nowstrikesthediscside
onwhichthesignal
is.
located.Partofthebeamisthen
reflectedbacktotheobjectivelensandphotodiode.A di-
agramshowinghowthisbeamisreflectedoffthediscis
showninfigure2-2.(A)showswhathappenswhenthecon-
centratedbeamisdirectedata pit.Normally,thisreflected
lightwoulddisrupttheoutputlightbeam.Inthelaserdiodes
usedinCDplayers,however,noiseisreducedinstead,result-
inginstableperformance.Thispropertyisveryadvantageous
for.the halfprismwhichallowsonlyhalfofthelightenergy
topass.
Apitand(B)showsthesamebeamwhenreflectedfrom
aspacebetweenpits.Incase(A),thebeamisdiffracted,so
thedarkpartofthebeamdoesnotreturntotheobjective
lens.
Instead,onlythecenterofthebeampassesthroughthe
objectivelensandreachesthephotodiode.In case
(B),
there
isnodiffractionbecausethebeamdoesnotstrikea
pit.
There-
fore,
theentirebeamisreflectedbacktothephotodiode,
producingbrighterbeamthanwhena pitisreached.Inthis
system,thedataonthedisc,whichisrepresentedbypits,
iscoveredintoanelectricalsignalatthephotodiodeaccord-
ingtotheintensity(brightness)ofthereflected^beam.The
RFsignalisthenproducedfromthiselectricalsignalbythe
computationcircuit.
Fig.2-3showshowthefocussignalisdetected.(1)is
whenthebeamfromthelaserdiodeisaccuratelyfocusedon
thediscbytheobjectivelens.(2)showswhathappenswhen
thedisccomesclosertothepickupand(3)showswhathap-
penswhenthediscmovesfartheraway.Thegratingandcon-
cavelens,whichhavenodirecteffectonthefocusingarenot
showninthediagram.
Incase(1),thebeam emanatingfrompoint
01
isreflect-
edanddiffractedonthediscsurfacetoproducethecon-
densedbeam(02).Incase(2),thebeamisdirectedata
pointfartherthanthatofbeam02.Fig.2-4showsthe
propertiesofthehalfmirror.1 through7 showstheshape
ofthebeamateachpoint.Betweenpoints2 and6,which
areina straightline,thebeamiscircularatpoint4.Point6
correspondstobeam02offig.2-3.Ifweassumethatfig.
24showsmode(1)offig.2-3,thatmeansthebeamiscir-
cularbecausethephotodiodeislocatedatpoint4.In
mode(2)offig.2-3,thelocationofthephotodiodeis
closertothecylindricallensthanitwasinfig.2-4.That
meanstheshapeofthebeamisthesameasthatofpoint3
(anellipsethathasa longerwidththanheight).Inmode(3)
offig. 2-3,theshapeofthebeamisthatofpoint5,an
ellipsethathasa longerheightthanwidth.
Fig.
2-4Halfmirror
Thesebeamshapesareshowninfig.2-3.Byperform-
inga (A+ C)
—
(B+ D)computationusingtheA-Dphoto
diodequarteringelements,thefocussignalisproduced.
Let'sconsiderwhathappensastheobjectivelensis
graduallymovedclosertothedisc.Iftheobjectiveisfair-
lyfarfromthedisc,onlya smallamountoflightwillbe
returnedtothephotodiode.Furthermore,sincethereturn-
inglightisquartered,thefocussignalwouldbe0.
Iftheobjectivelensismovedclosertothediscuntil
point7 offig.24isreached,theshapeofthebeamatthe
photodiodebecomesanellipsethatishigherthanitiswide.
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