Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd.

Takafumi Kuchii

Hirofumi Hayashi

Tomoyuki Ishii

An image exposing apparatus forms an image on photosensitive material by the technique of exposing and forming an image through direct modulation of a semiconductor laser device. The exposing apparatus includes a beam scanning unit for scanning a beam emitted from a semiconductor laser device to photosensitive material, a laser driving unit for driving the semiconductor laser device, the laser driving unit being operable to vary its driving current to the semiconductor laser device in accordance with a received image signal, and a laser output controller operable to measure current-beam output characteristics of the semiconductor laser device over a predetermined current range and then set a correlation between the image signal for the laser driving unit and the driving current for the semiconductor laser device, based on the measurement information.

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Wakayama, Japan

Takafumi Kuchii