Abstract:
A light beam emitted from a light source is supplied to an optical modulator having cells that are controlled depending on image information to be recorded, and then light beams reflected by the cells are guided to a light collecting device. The light beams are then collected in an auxiliary scanning direction and reach a photosensitive medium to record an image thereon. The cells of the optical modulator are individually controlled in a main scanning direction depending on different image information, and controlled in the auxiliary scanning direction depending on identical image information.
Abstract:
A laser beam emitted from a laser beam generator is modulated by a laser beam modulator depending on an image to be recorded, and then guided by a reflecting area or a transmitting area of a laser beam switcher toward one of reflecting surfaces of respective spinners. The laser beam is then reflected thereby toward a recording medium attached to an inner circumferential surface of a semicylindrical drum. The spinners alternately scan the recording medium with the laser beam while they are being displaced axially in the semicylindrical drum, so that a two-dimensional image can efficiently be recorded on the recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical system featuring a semiconductor laser for oscillating a beam which has, in a far field pattern, two lobes in the direction aligned with a pn junction interface of the semiconductor laser. The optical system is provided with a total reflection mirror for reflecting part of the beam in such a manner that one of the two lobes is separated as a result of the reflection of part of the beam from the other, and with a polarization beam splitter having a junction for synthesizing rays in such a manner that the lobes which have been separated by the total reflection mirror are superimposed. The apparatus is thus capable of forming a single beam spot at which the two lobes are superimposed.
Abstract:
An information compression method and apparatus for information forms in which each from is divided into raster lines. Each raster line is divided into multi-bit units. The information of each unit is compared with that of a preceding unit. Agreement and disagreement codes are stored in a unit memory. The pattern information of disagreeing units only is stored in a pattern memory. Each raster line is then compared with all preceding raster line of this and preceeding forms by means of comparing the respective locations of the unit memory and the pattern memory. When inter-raster agreement is found, the respective locations in a raster memory are given the same address used to access the unit memory and only one set of redundant raster data is stored in the unit and pattern memories.
Abstract:
In the optical information recording apparatus, the form slide film having the sensor mark is two-dimensionally scanned so as to detect the drift amount in the vertical scanning direction due to the fluctuation of the optical system of the optical information recording apparatus. The scanning device scans the sensor mark within a predetermined scanning period to produce the pulse signals. The number of these pulse signals is counted and then compared with the reference number so as to produce a difference, i.e., the drift amount. The vertical scanning pitch of the scanning device is controlled based upon the drift amount.
Abstract:
Parallel laser beams #1, #2 and #3 produced by splitting one laser beam into three, are introduced to an optical scanning device along the central axis of a recording cylinder, the optical scanning device being disposed on the central axis of the recording cylinder and rotated thereabout, having an inclined mirror surface, the recording cylinder holding a recording sheet on an interior surface thereof. The laser beam #2 incident upon the mirror surface at its center of rotation is reflected at the point of incidence, while the laser beams #1 and #3 are deflected by acousto-optical devices back and forth in the opposite directions in synchronism with the rotation of the optical scanning device, in parallel planes held at a distance and including the laser beams #1 and #3 therein, thereby to give the laser beams #1 and #3 angles of incidence upon the mirror surface necessary in order for the laser beams #1, #2 and #3 after reflected to produce scanned loci running parallel to each other at a given interval on the recording sheet, regardless of rotational positions of the optical scanning device. To adjust a relative difference in the lengths of the scanned loci, timing at which the laser beams #1, #2 and #3 are turned on/off is controlled. When the laser beams #1 and #3 are deflected so as to gyrate along a conical plane whose central axis is that of the recording cylinder, the laser beams #1, #2 and #3 produce scanned loci always running parallel to each other at a given interval with the same scanning lengths on the recording sheet.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of mixing together a plurality of inputted high-frequency signals whose frequency intervals are equal to each other so as to input the thus-mixed high-frequency signals to a multi-frequency acousto-optic device for dividing incident laser beams with the density according to the amplitude of each of the inputted high-frequency signals and in the direction corresponding to the frequency of each inputted high-frequency signal so as to radiate the thus-divided laser beams therefrom. The high-frequency signals whose frequencies are free from being adjacent to each other are mixed together, and the thus-mixed high-frequency signals are further mixed into one, thereby inputting the mixture to the acousto-optic device. Since the frequencies of high-frequency signals to be mixed first are not adjacent from each other, third-order harmonic signals appear at positions where they are dispersed. It is therefore possible to suppress the influence of third-order harmonic distortion upon the density of an image to the utmost.
Abstract:
An optical semiconductor device of broad area structure comprising an active region positioned between a p-type semiconductor region having a stripe-like anode electrode and an n-type semiconductor region having a cathode electrode, the anode electrode having a broad stripe width in which the photon density is increased to amplify the light with the aid of injected into the active region dependent on the current density flowing between the anode and cathode electrodes, wherein the density distribution of the injected carriers exhibits Gauss distribution in the widthwise direction of the stripe width. Therefore, it is possible to supply such a current as to produce the density distribution of the injected carriers with no excess or shortage.
Abstract:
An optical semiconductor device having an active region defined between a pair of semiconductor regions, the active region having an incident end face through which light is introduced and an emission end face through which light is emitted. This device is designed to continuously change the distribution of the density of carriers injected in the active region over the area between the light incident side and the light emission side, thereby changing the density of carriers in the active region from the incident end face to the emission end face.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for correcting deviation from a constant scanning speed of a galvanometer driven by a linear drive signal, characterized in that the linear drive signal for driving the galvanometer is converted into a non-linear drive signal in accordance with predetermined correction data to thereby reduce the deviation to zero.