Abstract:
A scanning apparatus is provided, which includes a fixed, hollow cylindrical segment (12) having a central longitudinal axis (16), the interior of which forms a concave surface for intimate contact with a medium for recording and/or readout, a support structure forming a transport for translational movement along the axis, a light source (18) mounted on the transport for movement therewith and for providing a beam capable of being directed along the axis, and a slanted mirror (26), angled 45 degrees with respect to the axis and mounted on the transport for translational movement therewith and for rotational spinning around the axis. The beam from the light source is reflected 90 degrees from along the axis along a radial to the medium and the rotation and translation cause the beam to scan the medium such that the rotating light beam is at all times perpendicular to the medium at the point of contact of the beam with the medium.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and device for exposing imaging material. A light beam (2) generated in a light source (1) is modulated linewise during an exposure time in a video modulator (5) and deflected over the imaging material (9) by means of a light beam deflector (7). During a returm time following the exposure time the video modulator (5) is deactivated. To present back-reflections, between the light source (1) and the video modulator (5) there is an optical isolator (4) which is switched on during the exposure time by gate pulses. In oder to maintain a constant operating temperature of the optical isolator (4) during the exposure and return times, the optical isolator (4) is swiched on linewise by additional gate pulses (GI) during a compensation time within the return time, during which the optical isolator (4) heats up. The optical isloator (4) is controlled in such a way that the sum of the lenghts of the exposure time and the compensation time is fairly constant within each line.
Abstract:
In connection with graphical drum scanning a very high accuracy of the drum is required and the scanner unit has to be very accurately adjusted. The invention provides for different purely dynamic adjustment methods, which enable a significant reduction of the accuracy requirements and therewith a reduced price of the scanner units.
Abstract:
A large format laser scanning system is disclosed that incorporates a compact, wobble free and wavelength insensitive scanning mechanism. The scanning mechanism includes a pentaprism and lens mounted on a rotating frame assembly that is located within a scanning drum. Multiple light beams generated by a light source are passed through the rotating pentaprism and lens to scan a photosensitive medium located on the interior surface of the scanning drum.
Abstract:
A method of acquiring at least one image from an image recording medium using a pulsed radiation source is provided. In one aspect, a method of scanning an image recording medium that has been exposed to X-ray radiation comprises providing first radiation along a plurality of scan traces over a surface of the image recording medium such that the first radiation does not impinge on the image recording over at least one interval along each of the plurality of scan traces. The pulsed laser source may reduce and/or eliminate cross-influence artifacts in images resulting from pulsed radiation image acquisition.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of exposing films and other light-sensitive materials in an image setter of the internal drum type. According to the invention, a light beam is conducted from a light source with the wavelength lambda 1 to a first exposure point on the light-sensitive material inside the image setter drum via an optical system comprising at least one input end and one output end as well as at least one rotating reflector arranged relatively to the optical output end, the invention being unique in that at least one additional light source generates an additional light beam with a wavelength lambda x which is different from lambda 1, said additional light beam with the wavelength lambda x being conducted via the input end of the optical system to the output end of the optical system, so that at least two light beams with different wavelenghts are conducted geometrically coincidently from the output end of the optical system to an additional exposure point on the light-sensitive material inside the image setter drum in dependence on lambda x or the mutual difference between the wavelengths DELTA lambda .
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and device for exposing imaging material. A light beam (2) generated in a light source (1) is modulated linewise during an exposure time in a video modulator (5) and deflected over the imaging material (9) by means of a light beam deflector (7). During a returm time following the exposure time the video modulator (5) is deactivated. To present back-reflections, between the light source (1) and the video modulator (5) there is an optical isolator (4) which is switched on during the exposure time by gate pulses. In oder to maintain a constant operating temperature of the optical isolator (4) during the exposure and return times, the optical isolator (4) is swiched on linewise by additional gate pulses (GI) during a compensation time within the return time, during which the optical isolator (4) heats up. The optical isloator (4) is controlled in such a way that the sum of the lenghts of the exposure time and the compensation time is fairly constant within each line.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a light beam deflector consisting of a transparent deflecting prism (1) extending along an optical axis (3) and a carrier prism (2). The deflecting prism (1) has a light admission surface (5) substantially perpendicular to the optical axis (3) and a light emission surface (7). The carrier prism (2) is joined on the reflecting surface (4) to the deflecting prism (1), making the latter into a substantially symmetrical unit (1, 2) in relation to the optical axis (3) about which it is arranged to rotate. To reduce air turbulence when the unit (1, 2) is rotated, in front of the light admission surface (5) there is a hollow cylindrical component (11) fitted on the unit (1, 2), the axis of which substantially coincides with the optical axis (3) and the inside diameter of which corresponds at least to the diameter of the light beam (6) impinging on the light admission surface (5). The reduction in the air turbulence minimises positional errors in the deflected light beam (6'), so that, when the light beam deflector is used in an imaging device, uniform exposure and hence higher reproduction quality are attained.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and device for exposing imaging material. A light beam (2) generated in a light source (1) is modulated linewise during an exposure time in a video modulator (5) and deflected over the imaging material (9) by means of a light beam deflector (7). During a returm time following the exposure time the video modulator (5) is deactivated. To present back-reflections, between the light source (1) and the video modulator (5) there is an optical isolator (4) which is switched on during the exposure time by gate pulses. In oder to maintain a constant operating temperature of the optical isolator (4) during the exposure and return times, the optical isolator (4) is swiched on linewise by additional gate pulses (GI) during a compensation time within the return time, during which the optical isolator (4) heats up. The optical isloator (4) is controlled in such a way that the sum of the lenghts of the exposure time and the compensation time is fairly constant within each line.
Abstract:
Internal drum recording apparatus provided with a rotating deflecting element, comprising two (or more) beams of different wavelenghts, which are simultaneously operatable, and optical elements for bringing the two or more beams to a common optical path before they reach the rotating deflecting element. The deflecting element may have dispersing properties such that beams of different wavelengths will leave it at slightly different angles. The beams of different wavelengths may be generated by laser diodes or tunable laser diodes. The apparatus may further comprise a beam combiner to combine the beams generated by the light sources.