Abstract

The all holographic straight-line scanner we developed for laser diode printers consists of only a holographic disk and a holographic lens. This simple scanner meets all scanning requirements for printers such as straight-line scanning, low scan line placement error, and beam focusing. It also overcomes the deterioration in scanning characteristics caused by the individual wavelength variations among laser diodes. We extensively analyzed how to obtain straight-line scanning based on different wavelengths and the generalized concept of virtual wavelength ratio enabling flexible scanner design.

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Wavefront aberration correction analysis of an all-holographic straight-line scanner

Shin-ya Hasegawa, Fumio Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Ikeda, and Takefumi Inagaki
Appl. Opt. 30(7) 823-832 (1991)

Holographic disk scanners for bow-free scanning

Yuzo Ono and Nobuo Nishida
Appl. Opt. 22(14) 2132-2136 (1983)

Analysis of a low-aberration holographic scanner

Takahiro Shiozawa and Hideto Iwaoka
Appl. Opt. 27(10) 1992-1997 (1988)

Aberration-free linear holographic scanner and its application to a diode-laser printer

Hideto Iwaoka and Takahiro Shiozawa
Appl. Opt. 25(1) 123-129 (1986)

Holographic optical scanning elements with minimum aberrations

Hans Peter Herzig and Rene Dandliker
Appl. Opt. 27(22) 4739-4746 (1988)