Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Mitsuhito Sakaguchi

Yoshinori Ohta

Keiichi Kubota

Isamu Sakuma

Michikazu Kondo

Taketoshi Hibiya

Nobuo Nishida

Itsuo Matsubara

Suehiro Miyazaki

Masahiro Moriwaki

The apparatus includes a semiconductor laser diode, a mounting for the laser diode and a casing with a window through which light from the diode passes. The casing hermetically seals the diode. A magneto-optical member is provided between the end face of the laser diode and the window. The magneto-optical member has a spontaneous magnetization oriented in the direction of the light transmission and a magnetic field is applied to saturate the magneto-optical member.

Semiconductor laser apparatus with isolator

In a light wavelength separating modulator there is provided a crystal manifesting an electro-optical effect which rotates the principal axes of the refractive index ellipsoid of the crystal, a plurality of juxtaposed electrodes formed on the crystal in the direction of transmission of light and having different periods, and means for applying modulation signals to respective electrodes. When light generated by a light source, having a light spectrum where half value bandwidth exceeds 100A, is transmitted through the modulator, a light wavelength multiplex signal transmitting apparatus is obtained; whereas when a birefringence body is located on the output side of the modulator, a light wavelength separating switch is obtained.

Electro-optical light modulators, light wavelength multiplex signal

A laser beam facsimile apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus utilizes a slit to define the light of a scan line. A laser beam is subjected to amplitude modulation and rapidly deflected toward the slit in a sub-scanning direction by an accousto-optic modulator (AOM) cell. An aperture of the slit is selected to be larger than the diameter of the deflected beam and smaller than the deflection scan in the sub-scanning direction. The light beam passed through the slit is focused on a light-sensitive medium by an optical system, whereby the optical intensity across the entire width of the scan line is constant without losing the sharpness at the edges of the scan line.

Laser beam facsimile apparatus

Relatively large hologram storage plates, e.g., those storing a large number of discrete entries such as character definitions for a large character set, comprise an array of mini-holograms arranged in different memory plate sections. A different photodiode array is associated with each hologram plate section (for efficiency, some elements of different diode arrays may be common). When the stored contents of any mini-hologram are interrogated by a coherent light beam, the stored information is derived via the associated photodiode array and converged (as by OR logic) to memory output terminals.

Large holographic memory with plural overlapping detector arrays

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuhito Sakaguchi