Abstract: A beam applying method includes the steps of: rotationally driving an optical recording medium, in which a signal is recorded and reproduced by applying a beam thereto and which has a recording layer on which the signal is recorded, a polarization element formed below the recording layer, and a reflecting film formed below the polarization element; and applying a beam to the rotating optical recording medium through a half-wavelength plate that is rotationally driven with the rotation of the optical recording medium.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device performs recording and reproduction on a hologram recording medium on which data is recorded by the use of interference fringes formed by signal light and reference light. The device includes: a light generation device including a spatial light modulator which performs spatial light modulation on incident light, and generating the signal and reference lights in the recording and the reference light in the reproduction; an image sensor for receiving the incident light and obtaining a light reception signal; an optical system for guiding the signal and reference lights to the hologram recording medium and reproduction light to the image sensor; and a band limiting device inserted on a Fourier plane in an optical path of the optical system, and having a transmittance set to be lower in a central area thereof than in a peripheral area thereof, to perform band limitation on the incident light.

Abstract: A recording technique for performing data recording onto a hologram recording medium in accordance with information on phases by performing spatial light phase modulation as spatial light modulation corresponding to recording data, and a reproducing technique for reproducing recorded data by properly reading information on phases recorded as described above are suggested. A signal beam having a phase modulation pattern provided thereto corresponding to recording data and a reference beam having a specific phase modulation pattern provided thereto are applied to the hologram recording medium. Thus, recording data can be recorded onto the hologram recording medium in accordance with information on phases. In addition, at the time of reproduction, a reference beam and a DC beam having the entire phase whose phase difference with respect to a reference phase within the reference beam is ?/2 are applied to the hologram recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device records information onto a medium by a light beam emitted from a laser light source and passing through a forward path, the forward path having optical components in an area extending from the laser light source to the medium, and reproduces the recorded information by the light beam passing through a backward path, the backward path having optical components in an area extending from the medium to an array light detector. The device includes a spatial-light modulator and a first objective lens disposed in the forward path, and a second objective lens and a polarization-dependent diffraction element disposed in the backward path. The modulator generates signal light and reference light from the light beam emitted from the laser light source, the signal light and the reference light being spatially divided from each other and having a common light path. The first objective lens focuses the signal light and the reference light from the modulator onto the medium.

Abstract: A mobile IP communication scheme for supporting a mobile computer moving over different address spaces is disclosed. A packet relay device for relaying packets having an address of the mobile computer device as a destination or source is provided at a border between a private address space and a global address space, where the packet relay device has a packet receiving unit for receiving a packet in a first format using a global address which is transmitted by the mobile computer for a location registration from a visited site managed by a global address system, and checking a content of the packet, and a packet transfer unit for transferring the packet in a second format using a private address, to a correspondent computer in a home network of the mobile computer managed by a private address system, according to the content of the packet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reproduction method for a hologram recording medium on which information is recorded with interference fringes of signal light and reference light, including: generating, based on light from a first light source, the reference light and coherent light caused to have uniform amplitude and phase, and irradiating the hologram recording medium with the reference light and the coherent light, the hologram recording medium including a recording layer on which the information is recorded with the interference fringes of the signal light and the reference light, a first reflection film formed on a lower surface side of the recording layer, and a gap layer formed between the recording layer and the first reflection film; and receiving the coherent light and a reproduction image that corresponds to recording information and is obtained as reflection light from the hologram recording medium through light irradiation in the light irradiation step, and reproducing the information based on a result of the li

Abstract: The present invention provides a purification method excellent also in removing particulates or the like from exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, in particular, a diesel engine or the like. A purification method for exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, wherein said purification method uses an exhaust gas purification apparatus comprising an oxidation zone installed with an oxidation catalyst supporting both platinum and palladium, and a filtering zone installed with a particulate filter, along exhaust gas flow at the exhaust gas passage of an internal combustion engine, characterized in that hydrocarbon-based liquid is supplied to the inflow side of the exhaust gas of said oxidation zone at the time when 2 to 10 g of particulates per 1 litter of said particulate filter are caught, to raise temperature of said exhaust gas up to equal to or higher than 550° C. by said oxidation catalyst so as to make the residue of said particulate filter combusted; and an apparatus thereof.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high strength comprising: a core alloy; an Al—Si-based filler alloy cladded on one side or both sides of the core alloy, wherein the core alloy is composed of an aluminum alloy containing 0.3-1.2% (mass %, the same applies the below) Si, 0.05-0.4% Fe, 0.3-1.2% Cu, 0.3-1.8% Mn, 0.05-0.6% Mg, and containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of 0.02-0.3% Ti, 0.02-0.3% Zr, 0.02-0.3% Cr and 0.02-0.3% V, the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities; and wherein, after the aluminum alloy brazing sheet is subjected to brazing, the core alloy features a metallic structure in which a density of intermetallic compounds having a grain diameter of at least 0.1 ?m is at most ten grains per ?m2.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a spatial-light-intensity modulating unit, a spatial-light-phase modulating unit, an optical system that transmits light and leads the light to a hologram recording medium, a converting unit that converts an input data sequence; an amplitude and phase controlling unit that controls, during recording, the spatial-light-intensity modulating unit and the spatial-light-phase modulating unit to generate a signal light and a reference light, and controls, during reproduction, light intensity of each of pixels in a reference light area and a signal light area and controls a phase of each of the pixels, an image-signal acquiring unit that receives the reproduced image and the DC light and obtains two kinds of image signals, a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between the two kinds of image signals, and a decoding unit that decodes data formed by a combination of the two kinds of values.

Abstract: In a beam applying method, recording and reproducing operations are performed on an optical recording medium, in which a signal is recorded and reproduced by applying a beam thereto and which has a recording layer on which the signal is recorded, a quarter-wavelength plate formed below the recording layer, a polarizing plate formed further below the quarter-wavelength plate, and a reflecting film formed below the quarter-wavelength plate. The beam applying method includes the steps of; emitting a beam to be applied to the optical recording medium; and driving a quarter-wavelength plate inserted into an optical system serving to guide the emitted beam to the optical recording medium so that the optical axis direction thereof has a predetermined angle difference at the time of performing a recording operation and reproduction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device, and a method and an apparatus for driving the same in which the refractive index of the liquid crystal device is adjusted using a simple driving method and apparatus, which is advantageous in that the cost is reduced, are provided. A liquid crystal device (10) includes a first transparent substrate (1002) and a second transparent substrate (1004) that face each other, a liquid crystal (1014) filled between the first and second transparent substrates (1002, 1004), a first transparent electrode (1006) formed on a surface of the first transparent substrate (1002) that faces the second transparent substrate (1004), and a second transparent electrode (1008) formed on a surface of the second transparent substrate (1004) that faces the first transparent substrate (1002). First and second driving signals (S1, S2) of square waves are applied to the first and second transparent electrodes (1002, 1004) with a time interval t (sec) therebetween.

Abstract: A recording apparatus performing at least recording with respect to a hologram recording medium is disclosed. The recording medium includes: a light emitting means for emitting light to be radiated with respect to the hologram recording medium set at a prescribed position; a special light modulation means configured to be able to generate reference light and signal light to be radiated to the hologram recording medium by performing light intensity modulation to incident light in the unit of pixels; a phase modulation means for performing phase modulation to radiated light from the special light modulation means; and an optical system configured to guide light emitted from the light emitting means with respect to the hologram recording medium through the special modulation means and the phase modulation means.

Abstract: A holographic recording and reproducing apparatus is provided. The holographic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a signal-beam spatial light modulating unit that displays a signal beam pattern for a signal beam, a reference-beam spatial light modulating unit that displays a reference beam pattern for a reference beam, and a controller that controls the mode of the signal beam pattern and that of the reference beam pattern. The controller controls the modes of at least two signal beam patterns and the modes of at least two reference beam patterns. A first reference beam is made to interfere with a first signal beam based on first recording data to record the data as a first hologram in a predetermined area of the holographic recording medium. A second reference beam is made to interfere with a second signal beam based on second recording data to record the data as a second hologram such that the second hologram is superimposed on the first hologram.

Abstract: A holographic reconstruction apparatus is provided. The holographic reconstruction apparatus reconstructs recording data recorded on a holographic recording medium from diffracted light generated by emitting reference light from a laser light source to the holographic recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram recording and reconstruction apparatus records and reconstructs a hologram in a recording layer of a holographic recording medium using a signal light beam and a reference light beam is provided. The hologram recording and reconstruction apparatus includes an objective lens for allowing the signal light beam, the reference light beam, and a diffracted light beam to pass therethrough, a spatial light modulator on which a reference light beam pattern for generating the reference light beam is displayed, a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the holographic recording medium, and a control unit for controlling the spatial light modulator to reduce the reference light beam pattern so that the reference light beam passes through the more inner portion of the objective lens or enlarge the reference light beam pattern so that the reference light beam passes through the more outer portion of the objective lens in accordance with the temperature.

Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device includes a laser light source emitting laser light; a spatial light modulator generating signal light and reference light from the laser light emitted from the laser light source, the signal light and the reference light traveling in a common light path; a first relay lens system including a first shielding plate at a focal position thereof and transmitting the signal light and the reference light generated by the spatial light modulator, the first shielding plate having a pinhole whose size is 1 to 2 times a Nyquist size; a phase modulating element disposed at a conjugate plane of the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the first relay lens system; an objective lens converging the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the phase modulating element on a hologram recording medium; and a light receiving system disposed between the phase modulating element and objective lens and receiving light returning from the hologram recording me

Abstract: A laser annealing device (10) includes a laser oscillator (12), radiating a pulsed laser light beam of a preset period, and an illuminating optical system (15) for illuminating a pulsed laser light beam to an amorphous silicon film (1). The illuminating optical system (15) manages control for moving a laser spot so that a plural number of light pulses will be illuminated on the same location on the amorphous silicon film (1). The laser oscillator (12) radiates a laser light beam of a pulse generation period shorter than the reference period. The reference period is a time interval as from the radiation timing of illumination of a pulsed laser light beam on the surface of the film (1) until the timing of reversion of the substrate temperature raised due to the illumination of the laser light beam to the original substrate temperature.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet which has a clad of a sacrificial anode material/a core alloy/an intermediate material/a filler alloy, wherein number density ratios N1/N2 and N1/N3 each are 1.5 or more, in which a number density ((the number of grains)/?m3) of an intermetallic compound having a sphere-equivalent grain diameter of 0.1 ?m or less present in the core alloy, the intermediate material, and the sacrificial anode material, is represented by N1, N2, and N3, respectively.

Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device includes a recording/reproducing optical unit performing recording and reproducing operations on a hologram recording/reproducing medium. The optical unit includes a laser light source emitting laser light; a spatial-light modulator generating signal light and reference light from the laser light, the signal light and reference light having a common light path; a phase mask disposed near the modulator or in a conjugate plane of the modulator and transmitting at least the reference light; and an objective lens including a first lens portion and a second lens portion. The first lens portion is disposed at an inner peripheral portion of the objective lens and serves as a Fourier transformation lens focusing the signal light to a predetermined point.

Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device records information onto a medium by a light beam emitted from a laser light source and passing through a forward path, the forward path having optical components in an area extending from the laser light source to the medium, and reproduces the recorded information by the light beam passing through a backward path, the backward path having optical components in an area extending from the medium to an array light detector. The device includes a spatial-light modulator and a first objective lens disposed in the forward path, and a second objective lens and a polarization-dependent diffraction element disposed in the backward path. The modulator generates signal light and reference light from the light beam emitted from the laser light source, the signal light and the reference light being spatially divided from each other and having a common light path. The first objective lens focuses the signal light and the reference light from the modulator onto the medium.