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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1993
Tami Isobe, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus for recording and reading out magnetooptic information an incident light beam polarized in a predetermined direction is modulated by rotating a plane of polarization in accordance with a recording pattern of a magnetooptic information recording medium utilizing magnetooptic Kerr effects. The modulated light beam is detected by a detecting system integrated element to read the recording pattern. The magnetooptic information recording-reading out apparatus has a TE/TM mode separating element of a waveguide type for separating lights in TE and TM modes from each other and disposed in the detecting system integrated element; a waveguide photodetector for detecting light in the TE mode and disposed in the detecting system integrated element; a waveguide photodetector for detecting light in the TM mode and disposed in the detecting system integrated element; and a signal detector for setting outputs I.sub.TE and I.sub.TM of the waveguide photodetectors for detecting lights in the TE and TM modes to be approximately equal to each other.