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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Jörg-Achim Fischer, Laboe, DE;
Klaus-Günter Leiss, Kiel, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Keil, DE;
Abstract
A laser diode in a recorder is thermally stabilized. The laser diode is used to produce a light beam, which is modulated by superimposing a basic current and a modulation current derived from an image signal, and exposes a recording material point by point and line by line. Between the exposure periods, wherein in each case one line is exposed, there are return periods, wherein the light beam is guided to the start of the next line, and wherein the laser diode is modulated for the purpose of thermal stabilization. In the return period, the laser diode is modulated with the basic current during a stabilization period, the sum of the modulation times during the exposure period and during the stabilization period being constant. In addition, during the return period, the laser diode can be modulated with a modulation current, which is derived from the inverted image signal from the preceding or the following line.