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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:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jack L Jewell, Boulder, CO (US);
Boris J Muchnik, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Vixel Corporation, Broomfield, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 4437 ; 369112 ; 369 4423 ;
Abstract
An optical memory system employing multiple reading/writing optical beams from solid state lasers for simultaneously reading from a writing to multiple tracks of optical media to allow reading/writing of closely spaced adjacent tracks, a number a feature are disclosed. These include using vertical writing surface emitting lasers forming an array of beam sources, using lenslets associated with array, modulating the beams, and providing various optical elements and combinations of optical elements to compensate for beam and system imperfections.