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Title:
PASSIVE FACET TRACKING SYSTEM AND SCANNING SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH1039244
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a single element optical system for a passive facet tracking optical scanning system.

In the double bounce passive facet tracking system inducing light beams 32 and tracking facets of a rotary polygon mirror 36 by using the single passive optical element of a toroidal mirror 40, characteristics of the toroidal mirror 40 are that the output light beams from the rotary polygon mirror 36 are converged on a sagittal plane with facets to be collimated on a tangent plane and the collimated lights are perpendicular to the rotary shaft of the polygon mirror 36.


Inventors:
WILSON JAMES M
Application Number:
JP10549297A
Publication Date:
February 13, 1998
Filing Date:
April 23, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
XEROX CORP
International Classes:
G02B17/08; G02B26/12; (IPC1-7): G02B26/10; G02B17/08
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Atsushi Nakajima (1 person outside)