Optical head

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1993-06-18

1994-05-17

Hannaher, Constantine

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Specific detail of information handling portion of system

Radiation beam modification of or by storage medium

369119, G11B 7135

Patent

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053134478

ABSTRACT:
An optical head for recording, reproducing or erasing data by emitting a light beam irradiated from a light source onto a recording medium. To reduce the height of the optical head, an optical axis shifting device is disposed between a light beam emitting device and a condensing device for condensing the light beam onto the recording medium. This optical axis shifting device shifts the first optical axis of the light beam from the light beam emitting device to a second optical axis positioned in parallel and spaced apart from each other. As the optical axis shifting device, there is preferable employed a prism having two reflecting faces lying in parallel, and the optical axis, after shifting is to be positioned downwardly of the position of the optical axis before shifting, thereby reducing the height of the optical head.

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patent: 5072436 (1991-12-01), Honda
"Compact Magnetooptical Disk For Coded Data Storage" Applied Optics vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 483-489.

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