Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: deflecting laser Message-ID: <507@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 23:56:52 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.507 Posted: Mon Dec 17 23:56:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:26:48 EST References: <10800014@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 13 > They must have a way of deflecting the laser light to make it > does raster scanning. I can imagine only two ways to do this: > > 1) move the laser device mechanically. > 2) projects laser through some tansparent medium whose refractivity > is electronically controllable. Don't forget directing the beam toward a rotating mirror. That's the way most laser printers do it. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell