Light beam deflection system
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Kato, Yoshihiro Okino
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Abstract
A light beam deflection system for producing diffracted light having a holographic light beam deflection disc bearing a record of unidimensional fringe patterns along the radial axis on a time division basis over a circumferential portion of the disc, and having means for focusing coherent light beams on the circumferential portion of the light beam deflection disc while rotating the disc.
Claims2
A light beam deflection system comprising a light beam deflection disc having a surface divided into a plurality of identical contiguous blocks of interference fringe patterns each occupying a sector of an annulus on the surface of said disc, said sector being defined by first and second radial lines, the fringe pattern within each of said blocks comprising approximately circumferential fringe lines having a given radial spacing along said first radial line and a greater radial spacing along said second radial line, the radial spacing between said circumferential fringe lines along radial lines intermediate said first and second radial lines increasing in the direction from said first radial line to said second radial line,
- means for rotating said disc, and
- means for focusing a coherent light beam to a radially extending line on a portion of said disc having an interference fringe pattern block, the width of said line in the circumferential direction being substantially less than the circumferential width of said block, said beam being deflected as said disc is rotated.
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