Owner ZEN RESEARCH (IRELAND), LTD.

Inventors NAOR, Michael; KEDMI, Joseph; KATZ, Itzhak; KOSOBURD, BARUCH; ALON, Amir; KOSOBURD, Tatiana, Tania; SHAPIRA, Shlomo

Pub. Number AU-A-2002312940

PCT Number PCT/EP02/05737

PCT Pub. Number WO2002/095742

Priority 09/866,002 25.05.01 US

Filing date 24 May 2002

Wipo publication date 3 December 2002

G11B 007/135 Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - Means for guiding the beam from source to record carrier or from record carrier to detector

G02B 027/44 Other optical systems

G02F 001/29 Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating - for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection

G02F 001/1333 Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating

G11B 007/14 Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - adapted to record on, or to reproduce from, more than one track simultaneously

G02B 005/18 Optical elements other than lenses - Diffracting gratings