optical plate with features for radialneigungserfassung, and device for measuring a radialneigung

摘要

An optical disk medium (110) has a data surface with grooves (124, 308) and lands (126, 310) behind a transparent substrate. Periodically, along radial lines (306), tilt measurement features (312, 314) are provided in the data surface, wherein the height of the grooves and lands is abruptly changed, preferably over a short circumferential length. For example, along the radial lines, the height of a groove (over a short length) may be changed to the height of a land and the height of a land (over a short length) may be changed to the height of a groove. The optical system (116) and the optical disk medium are designed so that when the focused laser spot is centered on a groove, a radial push-pull tracking error signal (figure 2, S1; figure 4, 400) is zero even if the disk is tilted. If the focused laser spot is centered on a land, the tracking error signal varies when the disk is tilted. As a result, when the focused laser spot passes over a tilt measurement feature, an abrupt step in the tracking error signal (figure 2, S2, S3; figure 4, 402, 404) provides a measure of the magnitude and direction of tilt. The tilt measurement features have little effect on the data signal, and little effect on the filtered tracking error signal and the filtered focus error signal. IMAGE