Abstract:
A magneto-optical signal detection device comprising a thin film type optical waveguide unit having a substrate on which a waveguide is formed. The unit has a coupling portion for coupling two polarization components simultaneously in a same plane of the waveguide as a TE mode and a TM mode. The modes TE and TM are included in reflection light reflected from a magneto-optical recording medium and perpendicular to each other. The unit also has a TE-TM mode separating portion having a taper boundary. A waveguide layer is gradually thinned in the taper boundary toward an outer end thereof.
Abstract:
A photo scanner device including a rotary disk having a plurality of holograms thereon and arranged in at least two concentric circles with respect to the axis of rotation of the disk, and a light source which generates a beam of light which is incident on the disk at a selected radial distance which may be varied so as to illuminate the holograms arranged on a selected concentric circle. The holograms on the same concentric circle each subtend the same angle from the axis, and the holograms on different concentric circles subtend different angles from the axis, thereby permitting the angle of scan to be switched by selection of the radial distance at which the beam of light is incident.
Abstract:
An optical scanning device includes a grating disc for deflection which is provided with linear diffraction gratings in an annular arrangement and adapted to deflect a laser beam to optically scan a given plane by means of the deflected laser beam. The laser beam incident to the grating disc has an elliptical section in its incident position on the grating disc. The longer axis of the elliptical section extends in the radial direction of the grating disc.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a light scanning apparatus including a semiconductor laser as its light source, a hologram disk having a plurality of equidistant linear gratings of hologram arranged in the form of a circle, which is driven to rotate at constant speed in a predetermined direction, a first optical system for leading the light from the laser to be incident upon one of the gratings, and a second optical system for leading the light diffracted by said one grating to a scanning surface. In one aspect, the second optical system is so structured to maintain the scanning surface to be in conjugate relation in geometric optics with the surface of said one grating thereby allowing to keep the scan line at a desired position even if the oscillation wavelength of the light varies. In another aspect, the incident angle of the light into the one grating is varied in accordance with the oscillation wavelength of the light so as to maintain a constant diffracted angle.
Abstract:
An optical scanning device shifting an optical spot on the scanning surface by rotating a hologram record medium on which a hologram is recorded, is so improved that, in recording a hologram, the incident angle of the principal ray of an object light and the incident angle of the principal ray of a reference light are so defined as to satisfy a particular condition, whereby even if the hologram record is inclined, the optical spot is not displaced.
Abstract:
In an electrostatic copying machine, a light source radiates an elongated, narrow beam of light onto an original document which is moved perpendicular to the beam of light for scanning. A plurality of imaging optical fibers are arranged in a row extending coextensively parallel to the light beam, which focus images of adjacent portions of the document onto a photoconductive member which is moved in a manner conjugate to the original document for scanningly forming an image of the document on the photoconductive member. The imaging optical fibers themselves extend parallel or at an angle to the document. First and second reflectors which may be mirrors or prisms are disposed between the document and imaging optical fibers and between the imaging optical fibers and the photoconductive member respectively to deflect the optical paths of the images. The light source may comprise a lamp and illuminating optical fibers which transmit light from the lamp onto the reflector disposed between the document and imaging optical fibers from which the light is reflected onto the document, thereby protecting the imaging optical fibers from heat damage.
Abstract:
P-polarized light beam passing through an fθ lens passes through a polarization beam splitter, is converted into S-polarized light beam by a quarter-wave plate and a reflecting mirror, re-enters the polarization beam splitter, and is reflected at the polarization beam splitter in the −Z direction. An optical path of a light beam between a polygon mirror and the fθ lens, between the fθ lens and the polarization beam splitter, between the polarization beam splitter and the quarter-wave plate, between the quarter-wave plate and a reflecting mirror, between the reflecting mirror and the quarter-wave plate, and between the quarter-wave plate and the polarization beam splitter are in the same plane.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus used in an optical data recording/reproducing apparatus for reading/reproducing data on an optical recording medium, including a light source, a diffracting device configured to transmit a light beam and to diffract a light beam reflected from the optical recording medium, an optical device having a reflecting portion and a transmitting portion configured to reflect one part of the light beam emitted from the light source and to transmit another part of the light beam to the optical recording medium and from the optical recording medium, and a photodetecting device to detect the light beam from the optical recording medium for signal light detection, and the light beam reflected by the reflecting portion of the optical device for monitor light detection of the light source.
Abstract:
An optical pickup apparatus used in an optical data recording/reproducing apparatus for reading/reproducing data on an optical recording medium, including a light source, a diffracting device configured to transmit a light beam and to diffract a light beam reflected from the optical recording medium, an optical device having a reflecting portion and a transmitting portion configured to reflect one part of the light beam emitted from the light source and to transmit another part of the light beam to the optical recording medium and from the optical recording medium, and a photodetecting device to detect the light beam from the optical recording medium for signal light detection, and the light beam reflected by the reflecting portion of the optical device for monitor light detection of the light source.
Abstract:
In an optical pickup method and device of the present invention, a grating unit separates a light beam, emitted by a light source, into a 0th order diffracted beam and 1st order diffracted beams. An objective lens focuses the diffracted beams, sent from the grating unit, onto a recording surface of an optical recording medium through a transparent substrate of the medium, so that a main spot is formed on the recording surface by the 0th order diffracted beam and sub-spots, interposing the main spot therebetween, are formed on the recording surface by the 1st order diffracted beams. A reflection beam detector receives reflection beams from the main spot and the sub-spots of the medium to generate detection signals from the received reflection beams. A control unit changes a pattern of the beams incident to the objective lens to correct a spherical aberration due to a deviation of a thickness of the substrate of the medium, and moves the grating unit relative to the light source to cancel shifting of sub-spot positions on the recording surface due to the spherical aberration correction, in order to generate a proper tracking error signal.