patent · US6377739
Two dimensional fiber optic output array
23 April 2002
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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.
Abstract
A plurality of fiber optic cables are bundled into a two dimensional output array which “writes” multiple data tracks onto a recording surface during a single pass of the array. The geometry of the array provides that the data tracks may be spaced at fine intervals when written onto the recording surface without requiring that the fibers of the output array have a correspondingly fine separation. The reduction in the pitch of the written tracks is achieved by staggering multi...
Provenance
- Collection
- Cited prior art
- Original PDF
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- Filed
- 1999-03-09
- Source
- Google Patents bibliographic record
- Granted
- 2002-04-23
- Inventors
- Douglas Richardson; Amos Michelson; Creo SRL