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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1987
Yoshikazu Sasaki, Sagamihara, JP;
Naoya Misawa, Machida, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A laser recording apparatus for printing multi-tone image data by driving a laser diode according to levels of an analog signal containing the image data thereby to modulate a laser beam output by the laser diode, and causing the modulated laser beam to scan a recording medium in transverse directions. The output of the laser diode is stopped or reduced in level for a certain time in each of periods at predetermined intervals, each period corresponding to each pixel in the printed image. This eliminates mode hopping noise and optical feedback induced intensity noise, and hardly gives rise to the problem of electromagnetic wave disturbance. By elongating or shortening the time for stopping or reducing the emission by the laser diode (which time is shorter than the period corresponding to one pixel), the image density may be adjusted without impairing the above advantage.