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Steering laser beam while etching optical servo tracks for magnetic disks

US5283773A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 10, 1992
Grant dateFeb 1, 1994
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Expiry dateJun 10, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/59677
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A beam of light used to etch servo tracks on a magnetic disk is steered with an acousto-optical device to maintain the beam in concentrical patterns while mechanically moving the optics which generate the beam of light continuously radially of the disk.

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