Optical information recording apparatus

Abstract

An optical information recording apparatus includes a light source that emits an irradiation light; a spatial light modulator that converts the irradiation light to an information light carrying information; a condenser lens that converges the information light and a reference light onto an optical information recording medium on which the information can be recorded as a hologram by an interference fringe formed by an interference between the information light and the reference light; a relay lens that propagates the information light emitted from the spatial light modulator to the condenser lens; and a permeable member, provided between the spatial light modulator and the relay lens, that has a refractive index greater than a refractive index of air and smaller than a refractive index of the relay lens, and refracts and transmits the information light.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.