Abstract:
Apparatus which includes a spherical mirror system that anamorphically shapes a gaussian laser light beam such that it can be effectively used in writing and reading systems.
Abstract:
A projection apparatus (10) has an illumination section with a light source (20) providing a substantially unpolarized illumination beam of multiple wavelengths. A multiple wavelength polarizer polarizes the substantially unpolarized illumination beam to provide a substantially polarized illumination beam of multiple wavelengths. A uniformizer conditions the substantially polarized illumination beam of multiple wavelengths to provide a uniformized polarized beam of multiple wavelengths. A color scrolling element provides a repeating, scrolled sequence of colors from a set of colors, thereby providing first, second, and third component wavelength illumination. A component wavelength modulating section accepts the sequence of first, second, and third component wavelength illumination from the color scrolling element and sequentially modulates the first, second, and third component wavelength illumination at a transmissive liquid crystal modulator panel (118) to provide a modulated component wavelength beam to a lens for projection toward a display surface (40).
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus (40) has an optical sensor (14) with sensing elements (18). Each sensing element (18) has an array of sensing components (28). Each sensing component (28) provides a signal corresponding to a pixel for forming an image as an array of pixels. A lens array (76) has a number of lens elements (66). Each lens element (66) directs light to a corresponding sensing element (18) in the optical sensor (14). A prism array (60) has a number of prism elements (62), each prism element (62) directing incident light from the image field toward a corresponding lens element (66) in the lens array (76).
Abstract:
An autostereoscopic optical apparatus (10) for viewing a stereoscopic virtual image comprises a left image to be viewed by an observer (12) at a left viewing pupil (14l) and a right image to be viewed by the observer at a right viewing pupil (14r). The apparatus comprises a left pupil imaging system for forming the left image. A right pupil imaging system forms the right image.
Abstract:
A laser printer with three separate channels (12, 14, 16). Each channel (12, 14, 16) includes a gas laser (18, 20, 22) which projects a beam at a particular wavelength along the channel optical axis. A beam combiner (70) receives the light beams from the three channels and combines them to form a combined beam spot at a registration plane (108r). The combined beam spot is relayed to a polygon (102) which scans the beam onto a receiving medium (30). In order to minimize laser pointing errors and eliminate artifacts in the image, optical means (40, 42, 52, 60) are provided for adjusting the size of the beam for optimum operation and for making the combined beam spot optically conjugate with a plane (1081) in each channel at a preselected point in the channel from which the pointing errors originate.
Abstract:
Les collecteurs de lumière formés par enroulement d'un bord d'une feuille de matière thermoplastique transparente dans une configuration annulaire, tandis que l'on maintient un bord opposé à plat, s'avèrent inefficaces pour collecter la lumière du fait de l'étirement local et par conséquent de l'amincissement de la feuille à proximité de l'extrémité annulaire, ce qui augmente le nombre de réflexions internes subies par un faisceau lumineux. On a résolu ce problème en fabriquant un collecteur de lumière d'épaisseur uniforme, ou plus épais vers l'extrémité annulaire.
Abstract:
A laser printer is disclosed which is adapted to be used for color imaging. The printer (10) comprises three diode lasers (97), each of which emits a light beam at a different wavelength. Each of the light beams passes along a separate channel (a-c) to a pair of dichroic plates (18, 20) which combine the three beams into a single combined beam. The combined beam is scanned by a polygon (40) onto a receiving medium (46) which is sensitive to the infrared. Two cylindrical lenses (29a, 30a, 29b, 30b, 29c, 30c) in each channel are used to focus the beam in the channel at a registration plane (32) located after the dichroic plates (18, 20). An optical relay (38) is used to transfer the combined beam from the registration plane (32) to the polygon (40) and to focus the beam in a cross-scan direction on the polygon (40). The polygon (40) is optically conjugated to the image plane in order to achieve cross-scan error correction.
Abstract:
A beam position sensor for a beam scanner is disclosed for use in a laser printer. The printer comprises three diode lasers each of which emits at a different wavelength. The beams from the three lasers are combined by the use of dichroic plates to form one combined beam. The combined beam is scanned onto a receiving medium by a polygon. The beam position sensor of the present invention is adapted to sense the position of the polygon in order to provide a synchronizing signal which will insure that each raster line in the printer is started at the proper position. The beam position sensor includes a diode laser and optics for projecting a beam from the laser onto the polygon. The beam is reflected back from the polygon into a photodetector which effects the start of a new raster line at the appropriate time.
Abstract:
The laser printer uses a rotating polygon (30) and a cylindrical mirror (44) disposed between the polygon and an image zone. The cylindrical mirror corrects for pyramidal errors in an output image formed on a moving photosensitive member (PM) disposed at the image zone by making the operative polygon facet and the image zone optionally conjugate in the page scan direction. To change the length (S1, S2) of the image in the line scan direction at the image zone, the optical distance between the polygon and image zone is varied by moving the cylindrical mirror. The velocity of the photosensitive member is adjusted to change the length of the output image in the page scan direction. At the new image format size, the cylindrical mirror makes the operative polygon facet optically conjugate with the image zone in the page scan direction to correct for pyramidal errors.
Abstract:
Apparatus is disclosed for producing clock signals which are used to precisely control the modulation of a first light beam as it is line scanned by a moving mirror. The apparatus employs a second beam of light which is reflected from the moving mirror and is intensity modulated by a grating. A paraboloid mirror receives such intensity modulated second beam and reflects a collimated beam. A lens focuses such collimated beam to form a stationary image on the surface of a detector which produces the clock signals.