摘要:
A light-beam scanning apparatus is disclosed in which a mirror surface of a metal having a characteristic that the reflectance of the mirror surface increases as the incident angle of light incident on the mirror surface is larger, is used as a reflecting surface, the optical thickness nd of a transparent protective film formed on the reflecting surface is made substantially equal to m.lambda./2 (where n, d, m and .lambda. indicate the refractive index of the protective film, the thickness of the protective film, an integer, and the wavelength of the incident light, respectively), the incident light is linearly-polarized light, and the direction of vibration of the linearly-polarized light is inclined at an angle of about +40.degree. to -40.degree. to a direction perpendicular to the plane of incidence of the linearly-polarized light.
摘要:
An optical system provided with a single optical scanner for separating a plurality of laser beams from each other and for leading the separated laser beams to different recording materials to record information thereon is disclosed in which cylindrical lenses are provided in front of the recording materials in such a manner that a predetermined number of ones among the laser beams pass through the cylindrical lenses, respectively.
摘要:
A light scanning device has a light deflector for deflecting in a scanning mode a light beam outputted by a light source; and an optical system for image-forming on a scanning medium the light beam deflected by the light deflecting means, with a convergent or divergent light beam in an optical path between the light source and the scanning medium. A plane-parallel plate is moved into and out of the optical path of the convergent or divergent light beam, so as to change a beam spot diameter on the scanning medium.
摘要:
In a variable density scanning apparatus, a variable focal distance device is provided in a scanning optical system. This variable focal distance device is formed of a light waveguide having a plurality of electrodes provided of which the lengths along the direction of incident laser beam are decreased or increased with the increase of the distance from the central electrode. The voltage to be applied between the electrodes is controlled in accordance with a desired dot pattern so as to change the refractive index of the light waveguide through which the laser beam is passed, thereby effectively changing the focal distance so that the diameter of the scanning laser beam spot can be changed in one dimension.
摘要:
In a variable density scanning apparatus, a variable focal distance device is provided in a scanning optical system. This variable focal distance device is formed of a light waveguide having a plurality of electrodes, of which the lengths along the direction of an incident laser beam are decreased or increased with the increase of the distance from the central electrode. The voltage to be applied between the electrodes is controlled in accordance with a desired dot pattern so as to change the refractive index of the light waveguide through which the laser beam is passed, thereby effectively changing the focal distance so that the diameter of the scanning laser beam spot can be changed in one dimension.
摘要:
An optical printer using laser beams, wherein, when a plurality (n) of laser beams are used at once to carry out a scanning operation, the positions of spots of said laser beams in both the primary scanning direction and sub-scanning direction are set so as to have the relation l=(n-1)a+m.multidot.n.multidot.a, wherein m is a positive integer (m.gtoreq.1); a the distance between the adjacent scanning lines in the sub-scanning direction on the printing surface of the optical printer after a printing operation; and l the distance between the adjacent laser beams in the sub-scanning direction on the surface of a photosensitive drum, whereby a high-quality printing effecting no overlapping and omission of images can be obtained even if the distance between the adjacent laser beams is increased during a scanning operation using a plurality of laser beams at once.
摘要:
In a laser printer wherein a photoconductive drum is scanned by utilizing a plurality of laser beams, there are detected spacings between the plural laser beams, such detection being confined to a blanking time. On the basis of the detected results, the spacings between the plural laser beams are controlled; and this state is maintained for a printing time. With this arrangement, it is possible to accurately detect the spacings between the plural laser beams thereby to obtain the practicable laser printer employing the plural laser beams.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser device is disclosed, in which two semiconductor layers of different conduction types are formed on a semiconductor substrate, an active semiconductor layer having a forbidden band width narrower than the two semiconductor layers is formed between the two semiconductor layers, and a waveguide encloses the light in a plane parallel to the active layer. The waveguide includes at least two regions of different widths. The wider one of the waveguide regions is located in the vicinity of the end surface of the semiconductor laser. A relation holds that .pi./6
摘要:
An improved laser scanner has a scanning lens composed of a single lens element and at least one surface of that lens element is of such a geometry that the curvature in a direction normal to the scanning direction varies gradually in the scanning direction in accordance with the specific deflecting face of an optical deflector. This laser scanner experiences less curvature of the image plane and achieves high resolution.
摘要:
A laser printer can record high definition and high quality images without requiring any increase of electrical and mechanical design precision for increasing a scanning line density thereof. The laser beam is deflected in a primary scanning direction and a subsidiary scanning direction. With such scanning, an artificial scanning line along an edge of a recording image can be established for accurately recording an oblique line, a curved line, a barbel portion of a character, a half-tone image or so forth.