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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2000
William S. Oakley, Burlingame, CA (US);
Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN (US);
Abstract
A multi-beam optical recording system having an array of light sources, such as Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL), oriented to the direction of motion of an optically sensitive recording medium such that each light source forms a separate written track. In another embodiment, a multi-beam optical recording system having a first array and a second array of light sources, such as VCSELs, oriented so that an objective lens focuses the output from each of the arrays in the direction of an optically sensitive recording medium. In a further embodiment, the first array of light sources may be an optical recording array, and the second array of light source may be an optical playback array.