Dynamic information storage or retrieval – With servo positioning of transducer assembly over track... – Optical servo system
Patent
1997-07-29
1999-11-23
Tran, Thang V.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
With servo positioning of transducer assembly over track...
Optical servo system
369112, 369 4414, G11B 700
Patent
active
059912499
ABSTRACT:
An optical sensor consisting of a nearly monochromatic point source such as a light emitting diode (LED) or a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) which is mounted on a multiple element detector. When this sensor is placed near a moving object with a reflective periodic pattern on its surface (such as an optical disk), it can produce a signal which can be used to control the position of the object. Unlike other sensors which often use lenses to project the light emitted by the light source onto the object and collect the light reflected from the object and project them onto a photodector, this new sensor performs the tasks of object illumination and light collection without the use of any optical component. A self-imaging principle is used by placing the detector on the self-imaging plare of the object to detect the motion of the object. In order to detect the periodic signal in the self-image of the periodic object, the detector element is covered with a grating structure having the same period or two times the period of the object.
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Hoetron, Inc.
Tran Thang V.
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