Xerox Corporation

Sdl Inc.

G A Connell

Ross D Bringans

Thomas L Paoli

Robert L Thornton

Donald R Scifres

David Kirtland Fork

Gregory J Kovacs

Fernando A Ponce

Eric Peeters

David P Bour

Robert Anthony Street

Noble Marshall Johnson

Patrick Yasuo Maeda

Joel A Kubby

William Streifer

Decai Sun

Philip D Floyd

Vittorio R Castelli

David F Welch

Robert Arthur Sprague

Linda T Romano

Raj B Apte

Zoran D Popovic

Robert G Waarts

Werner K Goetz

Richard L Weisfield

Jo S Major

Jimmy D Godwin

David W Treat

Harold M Anderson

Kevin J Beernink

Harlan Forrest Chung

Richard I Johnson

Xiaodong Wu

Daniel C Kowalski

Rose M Donaldson

Masud Mansuripur

R Donald Yingling, Jr

A solid state laser array is multiplexed using an array of micromirrors to permit high resolution printing in a wide format. Each laser in the laser array and each micromirror in the mirror array is individually controlled. The laser array may be an array of VCSELs produced on a GaAs substrate.

Method and apparatus for a solid state laser scanning architecture

A micro-machined movable light emitting assembly is formed on or from an undoped or pure III-V substrate or formed on or from a doped III-V substrate. The movable light emitting assemblies are to be actuated using force generators, to generate the various mechanical degrees of freedom depending on the type of stage suspension and actuation.

Monolithic scanning light emitting devices

The system achieves high-resolution imaging with low-resolution two-dimensional imagers whose sensors are only a fraction of a selected pixel area. Sensors are stepped across an image with an optical or mechanical stepper to acquire an image at each sensor position. Thereby, resolution is defined by a step size which is comparable to the sensor size, rather than by pixel resolution. The system thus uses multiple image, obtained from individual sensors, which have a sensed area substantially less than the area of the pixels of the sensor array. Such rescanning is accomplished by movable mirrors or lenses that are disposed between an illuminated specimen and a sensor area.

Resolution enhancement by multiple scanning with a low-resolution,

The present invention relates to electronic devices formed in crystallites of III-V nitride materials. Specifically, the present invention simplifies the processing technology required for the fabrication of high-performance electronic devices in III-V nitride materials.

Semiconductor devices constructed from crystallites

Methods for defect-free impurity-induced laser disordering (IILD) of AlGaInP and AlGaAs heterostructures. Phosphorus-doped or As-doped films are used in which silicon serves as a diffusion source and silicon nitride acts as a barrier for selective IILD. High-performance, index-guided (AlGa).sub.0.5 In.sub.0.5 P lasers may be fabricated with this technique, analogous to those made in the AlGaAs material system. The deposition of the diffusion source films preferably is carried out in a low pressure reactor. Also disclosed is a scheme for reducing or eliminating phosphorus overpressure during silicon diffusion into III-V semiconducting material by adding a pre-diffusion anneal step. Defects produced during intermixing are also reduced using a GaInP or GaInP/GaAs cap.

Thermally processed, phosphorus- or arsenic-containing semiconductor

A single pass color xerographic printing system with a single polygon, single optical system Raster Output Scanning (ROS) system has a dual wavelength laser diode source for the ROS which images the dual beams at a single station as closely spaced spots on a dual layer photoreceptor with each photoreceptor layer sensitive to or accessible by only one of the two wavelengths.

Color xerographic printing system with dual wavelength, single optical

A monolithic multi-wavelength laser diode array having a composite active region of at least two dissimilar quantum well layers that are partially mixed in at least one of their constituent atomic species in at least one area of the active region. Different areas of the active region are characterized by different emission wavelengths determined by the degree of intermixing. An impurity free interdiffusion, such as vacancy enhanced interdiffusion, is used to provide the intermixing. Each area may have one or more waveguides and distributed Bragg reflector gratings tuned to the emission wavelength of the corresponding area of the active region. Each area or waveguide may also be separately pumped with an individually addressable current injection electrode. The laser output may be coupled into a ferroelectric frequency doubler integrally formed on the array substrate. The frequency doubler has periodically poled waveguides for quasi-phase matching in front of areas of the laser array emitting light which is to be doubled in frequency.

Monolithic multi-wavelength laser diode array

A paper handling device, which uses a two-dimensional imaging sensor array, can quickly image a stack of documents. The two-dimensional array is positioned in direct contact with a document on top of the stack of documents. The sensor array images the document and is then lifted away from the page. The document is moved to an output tray. A first modification allows for recirculation of the documents for two-sided copying. A second modification, positions the sensor array above the documents in the output tray after the next document is moved from the input tray. With each of these designs, around one hundred pages can be imaged in less than a minute.

Method and apparatus for page imaging and document movement device

Nonmonolithic laser arrays having lasing elements mounted on a composite support that enables accurate positioning and separation of the lasing elements, and that enables low thermal, optical, and electrical cross-talk. The support includes a low thermal diffusivity region surrounded by high thermal diffusivity regions which have defined mounting surfaces onto which the lasing elements mount. Heat generated in the lasing elements is conducted away by the high thermal diffusivity regions, while the low thermal diffusivity region reduces thermal cross-talk between the lasing elements. Beneficially, the support assists current flow to (or from) the lasing elements.

Composite laser array support

A full color xerographic printing system, either double pass or single pass, with a single polygon, single optical system Raster Output Scanning (ROS) system has a dual wavelength laser diode source for the ROS which images the dual beams at a single station as closely spaced spots or at two stations as closely spaced spots on a dual layer photoreceptor with each photoreceptor layer sensitive to or accessible by only one of the two wavelengths.

Full color xerographic printing system with dual wavelength, single

The present invention is an apparatus and method for providing detection of a laser output on a semiconductor wafer. A laser cavity and a detection cavity are formed on a semiconductor wafer in parallel such that light emitted laterally from the laser cavity is detected by the detection cavity. The amount of light detected can then be transformed into data, which in turn can be used to control the output of the laser.

Method for forming a laser and light detector on a semiconductor

Plural overlapped Gaussian-shaped solid state semiconductor laser beams are focused onto the recording medium surface of a printer and will not optically interfere and cause any nonuniformity in printing due to optical interference because the respective laser beams are sequenced in ON/OFF operation so that relative to two or more overlapping laser beam spots focused to a recording medium surface, only one laser beam will be ON at any given time.

Method of utilizing a multiple emitter solid state laser in a raster

Monolithic microlenses and microlens arrays are manufactured on opto-electronic devices and other substrates by using sharp edge pedestals to confine the lateral flow of a molten lens material. The lens material wets the upper surfaces of the pedestals, but the pedestal edges confine the flow, so the lens material conforms to the shape of the pedestal surface and assumes a semi-arcuate profile due to its surface tension. Spin coating and photolithographic patterning may be employed to form the pedestals and to deposit the lens material thereon. The lens material is melted after being deposited, so the pedestals advantageously are stabilized to prevent them from deforming at the temperature of the molten lens material.

Pedestal-type microlens fabrication process

A system for providing a read signal from a magneto-optic medium wherein a non-rotated leaky beam splitter is utilized to provide both s and p components of the light reflected from the medium to a differential detector arrangement. The beam splitter, which may be of conventional construction and which has the reflected beam striking its medium-facing face at normal incidence, is operated in a leaky mode by utilizing it with a read beam having a wavelength differing from the wavelength for which the beam splitter was designed. One face of the beam splitter can be cut at a small angle off normal to prevent any p-polarized light from entering the differential detector arrangement directly from the light source.

Apparatus using beam splitter cube with specific characteristics for

A writing, erasing and readout system for a magneto-optic recording medium capable of achieving switching rates approaching the laser pulse rate, including plural diode lasers operating through a single optical path and cooperating with bi-polar magnetic field producing means located adjacent to and on the opposite side of the magneto-optic medium.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

G A Connell