Owner KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

Inventors HENDRIKS, Bernardus, H., W.; KUIPER, Stein

Pub. Number AU-A-2003263436

PCT Number PCT/IB03/04030

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/027490

Priority 02078939.2 19.09.02 EP; 02080387.0 18.12.02 EP

Filing date 12 September 2003

Wipo publication date 8 April 2004

G02B 026/02 Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating - for controlling the intensity of light

G02B 027/00 Other optical systems

G11B 007/12 Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - Heads

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

G11B 007/125 Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - Optical beam sources therefor

G02B 026/06 Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating