Abstract: A read-only memory (ROM) is disclosed that uses the presence or absence of linear passive electrical elements, such as resistors or capacitors, to encode zeros and ones, permitting a large-area ROM to be fabricated, possibly on a flexible substrate. The ROM includes a substrate, a plurality of row conductors insulated from each other and at least partially layered on a portion of the substrate; a plurality of column conductors insulated from each other and from the row conductors and at least partially layered above or below a portion of the plurality of row conductors, a plurality of amplifiers electrically connected to the column conductors, and at least one linear passive element attached between the row conductors and the column conductors.

Abstract: A read-only memory (ROM) is disclosed that uses the presence or absence of linear passive electrical elements, such as resistors or capacitors, to encode zeros and ones, permitting a large-area ROM to be fabricated, possibly on a flexible substrate. The ROM includes a substrate, a plurality of row conductors insulated from each other and at least partially layered on a portion of the substrate; a plurality of column conductors insulated from each other and from the row conductors and at least partially layered above or below a portion of the plurality of row conductors, a plurality of amplifiers electrically connected to the column conductors, and at least one linear passive element attached between the row conductors and the column conductors.

Abstract: A plural-beam cathode ray tube includes an electron gun directing electrons towards a faceplate having an electrode biased at screen potential. The electron beam is magnetically deflected to scan across the faceplate to impinge upon a pattern of phosphors thereon to produce light of different colors depicting an image. A first conductive coating near the tube neck is biased below screen potential and a second conductive coating between the neck electrode and the faceplate is biased at screen potential. A gap between the first and second conductive coatings varies in distance from the faceplate so as to be non-Z-planar. The non-Z-planar gap is preferably partly within the region wherein electrons are deflected by the magnetic deflection yoke and partly more proximate the faceplate than such deflection region.

Abstract: Large visual displays are comprised of an array of smaller display devices or modules, each of which displays a portion of the image to be displayed so that together the array of smaller display devices displays the complete image. Unlike conventional large displays which necessarily seek to minimize the edge areas of the smaller display elements that do not display an image so as to minimize the “seams” or gaps between the image portions, the present display device projects image portions scanned from less than the entire display area of the smaller display devices in an array to create an image on a substantially flat panel that is substantially free of visual “seams” or gaps between the image portions. Thus the display device may employ display elements that do not have narrow edges and that are not contiguous to generate overlapping sub-images.

Abstract: High speed writing apparatus, for mapping 1:1 polar plots of disc record defect locations on disc-shaped electrosensitive paper, accepts electrical signals representing defect occurrences from a defect detector which scans the disc record surface in a spiral scanning pattern. These signals activate a high voltage switch circuit that produces an electric current between an electric writing pen stylus and a conducting surface of a turntable of the printing apparatus upon which the disc shaped electrosensitive paper is mounted. Relative motion is established between the turntable and the writing pen in a manner causing markings resulting from pen activations to be located on the electrosensitive paper with radial and circumferential positions corresponding to the locations of the defects appearing on the disc record, thereby generating 1:1 polar plots of the defect locations on the paper.

Abstract: System employs pinhole array in conjunctionwith a random phase shift plate for recording a redundant Fourier-transform hologram of a two-dimensional object that exhibits a gray scale.

Abstract: Defect detection apparatus, for optically inspecting a spiral groove of a video disc record, directs a coherent light beam at the grooved surface of the disc. The incident beam, focused at a point beyond the disc surface, illuminates the grooved surface with a light spot that spans a plurality of convolutions of the groove. Relative motion is established between the disc surface and the incident beam in a manner causing the illuminating spot to rapidly scan the groove surfaces in a coarse spiral pattern. The structure of the illuminated groove convolutions, absent any defects, serves as a diffraction grating for diffracting the light into an undeviated zero diffraction order cone of light that converges at a first location in a plane spaced from the disc surface and into deviated higher diffraction order cones of light that converge at additional locations in said plane separated from the first location.

Abstract: Two ring mounts extend around and are secured to a gas laser discharge tube. The ring mounts are positioned near opposite ends of the laser tube. The laser discharge tube is in a prealigned relationship to the external perimeter of each ring mount. The mounts serve as the means for mounting the laser discharge tube. The mounts are formed by placing the laser discharge tube within two molds and aligning the laser output beam with respect to the molds. Plastic material is then forced into the molds and allowed to harden so as to permanently fix the aligned relationship of the tube with respect to the mold.

Abstract: A mirror is aligned on a laser tube using an apparatus comprising a window spaced from the mirror and a means for containing fluid, such as a bellows, between the window and the mirror. The window and the fluid have an index of refraction that matches that of the mirror. The bellows permits the mirror's relation to the window to be changed without the loss of the fluid. In aligning the lasing mirror, the window is oriented normal to a light beam from an autocollimator. The mirror is then placed in contact with the laser tube and oriented so that the beam from the autocollimator is reflected back on itself.

Abstract: An optical element for a laser, such as a mirror, includes a rectangular parallelepiped body of a material suitable for the element, such as glass, and a cylindrical projection extending from one surface of the body. The projection is smaller in area than the area of the surface of the body and the periphery of the projection is spaced from the edges of the surface. The edge of the surface of the projection is free of nicks or chips and serves as the mounting edge for the element in a laser. A plurality of the elements are made simultaneously by etching the surface of a sheet of material to form a plurality of spaced projections and dividing the sheet along lines between the projections. Prior to dividing the sheet, the surfaces of the projections may be coated with a suitable optical coating.

Abstract: An optical substrate has an electrically conductive grating on one surface. Over the grating is a multilayered dielectric coating.

Abstract: A method of aligning the mirrors and bore tube axis of a laser without actually operating the laser comprising the directing of two light beams through the bore tube collinear with the bore tube axis; the two light beams being directed through the tube from opposite ends of the tube. The mirrors are positioned so that one or both of the light beams are reflected from the mirrors along paths also collinear with the bore axis. A fine alignment of the mirrors is provided by detecting the light of a modulated laser beam passed through the bore and mirrors. The mirrors are accurately positioned when the detected modulated laser beam provides a peak output.

Abstract: Pulse width modulated surface relief phase holograms are produced on a substrate by developing a holographic interference pattern recorded on a photoresist deposited on the surface of said substrate as an amplitude modulated sinusoidal surface relief pattern so as to expose the surface of said substrate as a function of the intensity of said interference pattern, uniformly etching said substrate and removing said photoresist leaving a pulse width modulated, substantially two-level rectangular wave diffraction grating. Focused image holograms produced by this method on hard durable substrates may be used as masters for replicating said holograms in a suitable recording medium.

Abstract: an optical playback system is provided for a record having an information track comprising a succession of depressed areas alternating along the length of the information track with relatively non-depressed areas. Light is diffracted by the track to form a zero diffraction order cone of light, and a pair of differently deviated first diffraction order cones of light, each of the latter having a respective region of overlap with the zero diffraction order cone. A light detector, having four independent photosensitive elements disposed symmetrically about the center of a light accepting region of a common housing, is disposed in the path of the diffracted light so that the light accepting region intercepts the zero diffraction order cone. Two photosensitive elements detect two separate regions of overlap representing the recorded data. The remaining elements provide radial tracking signals.