Optical system for light beam scanning

Details Optical system for light beam scanning Optical system for light beam scanning

1998-06-10

1999-12-21

Phan, James

Optical: systems and elements

Deflection using a moving element

Using a periodically moving element

359205, 359207, 359216, 359217, 359662, G02B 2608

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060057033

ABSTRACT:
An optical system for light scanning devices in which a beam of light travels from an origin to an object along a light path and has along that path a scan direction and a cross-scan direction. The optical system includes a light source at the origin of the light path, a polygonal reflector located along the light path and having adjacent peripheral mirror surfaces rotatable in the scan direction, and a pre-scan optical sub-system located along the light path between the light source and the polygonal reflector. The pre-scan optical sub-system includes, in order of light travel from the light source, a collimating lens and a pre-scan lens having a convex cylindrical lens entrance surface aligned in the scan direction for converging the light beam in the cross-scan direction, and a convex lens exit surface for converging the light beam in the scan direction. An aperture stop may be provided between the collimating lens and the pre-scan lens to further truncate or reduce the diameter of the collimated beam. The optical system has a post-scan optical sub-system located along the light path between the rotatable polygonal reflector and the object and including a first f-theta lens and a second f-theta lens.

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