摘要:
A light beam scanning apparatus in which laser power and spot shape of an emitted laser beam are controlled, has a laser control signal generating part for changing a picture signal to a laser power control signal and a spot shape control signal, a laser power control current generating part which is driven by the laser power control signal, a spot shape control current generating part which is driven by the shape control signal, and a laser beam emission part for emitting a laser beam having a laser power and a spot shape which are controlled by the control signals via a commonly used light wave guiding part, wherein the control signal generating part generates or corrects the control signals based on at least one of the difference between the laser power of a beam to be emitted and a detected laser power, the difference between the spot shape of a beam to be emitted and a detected laser power, a detected temperature at the laser beam emission part, and an effective light emission pixel number.
摘要:
A laser beam printer is provided which is capable of compensating for the difference in diameter between dots every colors and preventing unintentional coloring of the boundary between colors. In a conventional light source used for a printer, a spot diameter thereof is small upon low output and large upon high output. However, in a semiconductor laser device of the present invention, which is used for a light source for a printer, the spot diameter of the light source is controlled so as to be large upon low output and small upon high output. It is thus possible to keep the spot diameter of the laser light source constant. As a result, an irregular color-free laser beam printer can be materialized.
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 electrophotographic image recording apparatus that forms an electrostatic latent image so that the uniformly charged surface of a photoreceptor is scanned for its exposure with a beam spot of a light beam generated according to image information, to discharge the surface of the photoreceptor up to a medium potential. The electrophotographic image recording apparatus includes a light beam generator capable of varying an amount of light beam and a light intensity distribution pattern of a beam spot on the surface of the photoreceptor, an intensity distribution pattern controller for controlling the light beam generator according to the image information of peripheral pixels, to vary the intensity distribution pattern of the beam spot on the surface of the photoreceptor, and a light beam output controller for controlling the light beam generator to put the exposure energy on pixels, exposed to the beam spots of intensity distribution patterns, at a predetermined value.
摘要:
A laser printer is provided printing with a high precision simply and at a high speed, and the laser printer uses a semiconductor laser which can vary the diameter of the emitted light while the light density is held constant. In the laser printer, laser rays emitted from a semiconductor laser are irradiated onto a photoconductor to vary its surface potential to produce a charge pattern particles adhere, and printing is performed by transferring the changed particles to a printing object. The semiconductor laser has a plurality of waveguide type resonators, the emitted beams of the resonators having a spatial superposition, and light emission is possible so that the emitted beams of the resonators having a spatial superposition with respect to each other among the resonators of the semiconductor laser are not substantially superimposed in time.
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.
摘要:
The subject of the disclosed art is to prevent a short circuit between plural electrodes caused by soldering in the assembling process for a semiconductor laser element. The constitution for improving the subject is as follows. A semiconductor laser device comprises a semiconductor laser chip having a first electrode and a laser sustaining material, in which the laser sustaining material has electrodes and solder layers connected electrically therewith on the surface where the semiconductor laser chip is mounted, the first electrode of the semiconductor laser chip is connected with the solder layer of the laser sustaining material and at least the solder layer of the laser sustaining material extends from at least one end face in the longitudinal direction of an optical resonator of the semiconductor laser chip to the outside of the optical resonator.
摘要:
When a semiconductor laser is energized, a virtual junction temperature rises to reduce a threshold current, which fluctuates a light output by the unit of a several microseconds, thereby causing printing irregularity. An object of the invention is to prevent the fluctuation in light output occurring due to the temperature change caused by the energization of the semiconductor laser with a simple circuit structure and under the driving condition of a small bias current. A constant voltage driving is performed with a circuit or device having negative resistance characteristics being arranged In series with the semiconductor laser. Thus, the reduction in light output of the semiconductor laser due to the temperature rise is compensated for by an increase in driving current thanks to a reduction in rising voltage of current/voltage characteristics.
摘要:
When a semiconductor laser is energized, a virtual junction temperature rises to reduce a threshold current, which fluctuates a light output by the unit of a several microseconds, thereby causing printing irregularity. An object of the invention is to prevent the fluctuation in light output occurring due to the temperature change caused by the energization of the semiconductor laser with a simple circuit structure and under the driving condition of a small bias current. A constant voltage driving is performed with a circuit or device having negative resistance characteristics being arranged in series with the semiconductor laser. Thus, the reduction in light output of the semiconductor laser due to the temperature rise is compensated for by an increase in driving current thanks to a reduction in rising voltage of current/voltage characteristics.
摘要:
In a laser beam scanning apparatus, first and second laser beam emitters emit a laser beam polarized in a specific direction and a laser beam polarized in the direction orthogonal with this specific direction. A prism passes a laser beam emitted from the first laser beam emitter but reflects a laser beam emitted from the second laser beam emitter, and amalgamates two laser beams emitted from the first and second laser beam emitters in almost the same direction. A rotating polygonal mirror and a scanning lens simultaneously scan on a scanned plane two laser beams amalgamated by the prism. A 1/4 wavelength plate is inserted between the rotating polygonal mirror and the prism to change the laser beam from the prism from a linearly polarized state to a circularly polarized state. By the above arrangement, a difference of reflection factors between two laser beams incident to the rotating polygonal mirror can be eliminated so that two uniform laser beams can be scanned at the same time.