摘要:
This specification discloses a light modulating device comprising a liquid medium whose physical properties are variable by heat, and a heat-generating element for heating the liquid medium to such a degree that boiling does not occur to the liquid medium. The specification also discloses a light modulation apparatus comprising a liquid medium whose physical properties are variable by heat, a heat-generating element for heating the liquid medium to such a degree that boiling does not occur to the liquid medium, and a optical system for taking out one of a light flux modulated by the variation in physical properties of the liquid medium and a light flux not modulated by said variation from a state in which the light fluxes are mixedly present.
摘要:
A light modulation element of the invention has a plurality of polygonal modulation portions for modulating incident light staggered on arrays. Sides, of each two adjacent portions on different arrays, which are closest to each other are parallel to each other and are not perpendicular to the array direction. The modulation portions can be arranged at a high density along the array direction, the utilization efficiency of illumination light is improved, and the modulation light amount can be increased. When an element is used for a recording apparatus, and S/N ratio is improved, uniform exposure along the array direction is achieved, and the required memory capacity is decreased. A light modulation apparatus of the invention has an imaging optical system, a modulation optical system, and a scanning optical system. By incorporating a suitable means in an optical system or changing the optical system arrangement, a separation angle between modulated and non-modulated lights is increased, and diffracted light generated due to a shape of a light modulation element as a component of the apparatus can be eliminated.
摘要:
An information memory apparatus includes: an endless belt which is driven forward and in reverse by a motor and reciprocates a recording medium such as an optical card; an optical head for reading out information from the recording medium which is being moved by the endless belt; a memory for temporarily storing the information read out by the optical head; a transfer apparatus for transferring the information read out of the memory to the outside; and a control circuit for changing the positions at which the information stored in the memory is read in accordance with the reading of the information upon the forward and returning operation of the recording medium. The control circuit also changes the reading directions of the information from the memory in accordance with the forward and returning operations of the recording medium. With this apparatus, the information reading efficiency is improved and the information is efficiently transferred by a simple constitution, while reducing the number of memories.
摘要:
Method and apparatus for driving an optical pickup of an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus having the optical pickup movable on an information track of an optical information recording medium having information tracks formed thereon side by side, and an optical pickup drive device for intermittently moving the optical pickup, wherein a distance of movement in one intermittent movement of the optical pickup is smaller than the pitch of the information tracks.
摘要:
An information recording/reproducing apparatus uses a card-like recording medium having an area for information recording and a blank area, the area for information recording having a reflectivity different from that of the blank area. The apparatus includes a head unit for performing at least one of recording and reproduction, an autotracking servo, a stepping motor and the like cooperating to cause the card to reciprocate relative to the head unit, and an abnormal state detect circuit for detecting whether the card is inserted in the apparatus in a normal state. The abnormal state detect circuit includes a photosensing unit consisting of a light-emitting element for emitting light rays onto the card and a light-receiving element for receiving the light rays from the card. The photosensing unit is deviated with respect to a central portion of the card along a direction perpendicular to a reciprocal movement of the card so that the area for information recording is irradiated with the light rays from the light-emitting element upon insertion of the card in the normal state.
摘要:
This specification discloses a plural-beam scanning apparatus in which the directions of light emission of light-emitting portions such as semiconductor lasers or light-emitting diodes are determined so that the central rays of light beams emitted from the light-emitting portions are emitted as if they originate from or pass through substantially the same point as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the deflection scan plane and which has a deflector for deflecting a plurality of light beams from the light source unit at one time and optical means for making said same point and a point near the deflecting-reflecting surface of the deflector optically conjugate.
摘要:
A plural-beam scanning apparatus comprises a light source unit having a plurality of light-emitting portions, a deflector for deflecting the light beams from the light-emitting portions, a prism for refracting the light beams from the light-emitting portions so that the central light rays of the light beams emitted from the light-emitting portions of the light source unit as if they originated from or pass through substantially the same point, and an imaging system for rendering that same point and a point near the reflecting surface of the deflector optically conjugate.
摘要:
A scanning device for scanning a flat scanned surface by means of a rotating or rotatively vibrating deflector. The scanning device is provided with a rotational asymmetric image forming optical system disposed between the deflector and the scanned surface for forming an image of the scanned surface at a substantially equal distance from the deflecting surface of the deflector in the plane defined by the path of movement of the normal to the deflecting surface of the deflector in accordance with the rotation thereof.
摘要:
A light beam scanning device provided with a rotationally vibrating deflector having at least two deflective and reflective surfaces, a scanning surface subjected to scanning operation with light beam deflected by the deflector, an image-forming optical system interposed between the deflector and the scanning surface to focus the light beam from the deflector onto the scanning surface, and a light source section which emits light beam to the deflector, in which device a first deflected light beam plane to be formed by the deflected light beam immediately before entering the image-forming optical system at the forward movement of the deflector is made parallel with a second deflected light beam plane to be formed by the deflected light beam immediately before entering the image-forming optical system at the return movement of the deflector, and the deflecting direction of each beam to be deflected by the first deflected light beam plane and the second deflected light beam plane is made identical.
摘要:
A projecting optical system having a first lens system, on one focal plane of which a first plane is disposed, a light beam deflector disposed on the opposite side of the first plane relative to the first lens system and to deflect light beams in a predetermined direction, and a second lens system which receives light beams from the light beam deflector and collects the same on a second plane disposed on its focal plane, wherein the first and second lens systems have one and the same distortional characteristic, the distortion to be generated in the first lens system is compensated by the distortion to be generated in the second image-forming lens system, irrespective of the deflecting action of the deflector, to thereby sequentially project the image on the first plane onto a predetermined position on the second plane.