Optical Scanner

Details Optical Scanner Optical Scanner

1992-06-05

1994-08-09

Ben, Loha

Optical: systems and elements

Deflection using a moving element

Using a periodically moving element

359196, 359205, G02B 2610

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053371828

ABSTRACT:
An optical scanner includes a varifocal semiconductor laser light source for emitting a laser beam and displacing a substantial divergent start point from a direction corresponding to a minimum divergent angle of the laser beam to an optical axis direction and arranged such that the direction corresponding to the minimum divergent angle corresponds to a cross-scanning direction; a collimator lens for changing the divergent light beam from the light source to an approximately parallel light beam in a direction corresponding to a maximum divergent angle of the divergent light beam; a deflector for reflecting the light beam from the collimator lens on a deflection-reflecting face and deflecting the reflected light beam in a main scan-corresponding direction; a first image forming optical system arranged between the collimator lens and the deflection-reflecting face and forming the light beam from the collimator lens as a linear image in a cross scan-corresponding direction; a second image forming optical system arranged between the deflection-reflecting face and the scanned face and setting the positions of the deflection-reflecting face and the scanned face in an approximately conjugate relation in geometrical optics in the cross-scanning direction and forming the light beam deflected by the deflector as an image on the scanned face; and a controller for changing the substantial divergent start point of the light source in the direction corresponding to the minimum divergent angle.

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