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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Suk Y Suh, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Somerville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350379 ; 350370 ; 350401 ; 350608 ; 369 45 ;
Abstract
There is provided a method of moving the position of the focal point of an optical system in an optical data storage device. A membrane reflector having an electrically controllable surface contour is provided in the optical system and the reflector's surface contour is controlled so as to move the focal point on the data storage medium of the optical data storage device. The optical system comprises a source of plane-polarized light, a polarizing beam splitter, first and second quarter-wave plates, the membrane reflector and an objective lens.