Abstract: An optical recording device includes a light source, a light-converging optical system, a moving unit, detection unit, and an acquisition unit. In the optical recording device, interference fringes from a recording light are shift multi-recorded as a plurality of pages of holograms within each of a plurality of planes corresponding to a plurality of convergence positions based on light exposure amount of each page, acquired by the acquisition unit, for each of the convergence positions.

Abstract: A hologram recording method includes eliminating a DC component from a Fourier transformation image of a signal light for expressing binary digital data as a brightness image, and irradiating an optical recording medium simultaneously with the signal light from which the DC component has been eliminated and a reference light to record an image edge portion of the signal light onto the optical recording medium as a hologram.

Abstract: A hologram recording method comprising recording information of signal light as a reflection-type hologram on an optical recording medium, by illuminating the signal light and reference light on a same axis and from different sides of the optical recording medium is provided. Further, a hologram recording device including: a signal light illuminating section illuminating signal light onto an optical recording medium; and a reference light illuminating section illuminating reference light of a same axis as the signal light, onto the optical recording medium from a different side than the signal light is provided.

Abstract: A hologram recording method for recording information of signal light as holograms in an optical recording medium, which includes illuminating signal light at the optical recording medium; illuminating reference light at the optical recording medium simultaneously with the signal light such that an interference pattern is formed by the signal light and the reference light intersecting in the optical recording medium; and shifting a region in the optical recording medium at which the signal light and the reference light intersect, by shifting an illumination position of the reference light along an optical axis of the signal light, thereby recording a plurality of holograms in the recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram reproduction method for reproducing a hologram from an optical recording medium in which the hologram is recorded by Fourier transforming a signal light, in which digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, and a reference light, and simultaneously irradiating the lights in a state in which a direct current component is removed from at least the Fourier transformed signal light onto the optical recording medium is provided. The method including: irradiating a read out reference light onto the optical recording medium, and generating a diffracted light from the recorded hologram; generating all or a part of a direct current component contained in a Fourier transformed image of the signal light; combining the diffracted light and the generated all or a part of the direct current component, and generating a combined beam; and reproducing the signal light by inverse-Fourier transforming the combined beam.

Abstract: A hologram decoding apparatus is provided and includes: a light receiving unit including an imaging device that receives a reproduced image obtained by reading a code image from a hologram recording medium in which a Fourier transform image of the coded image with n pixels expressing digital information is recorded, n being an integer of 2 or more, and that outputs the reproduced image with k resolution pixel numbers, k being an integer more than n; a storing unit that stores a plurality of sets of a reference image and digital information corresponding to the reference image, the reference image being expressed the reproduced image from the hologram recording medium, which is coded with m pixels of k?m>n; and a decoding unit that refer reference images stored in the storing unit to specify a reference image corresponding to the reproduced image received by the light receiving unit; and that carries out a decoding processing to set the digital information corresponding to the specified reference image as d

Abstract: In the present invention, a photosensitive layer of an optical recording medium includes a photo-responsive high-molecular compound comprising a photo-responsive group (e.g., an azobenzene derivative) which is geometrically isomerized by light radiation, and a liquid crystal linear mesogen group (e.g., a biphenyl derivative), wherein the photo-responsive group and the linear mesogen group are respectively bonded as side chains. The invention provides an optical recording medium enabling large scale recording by making the photosensitive layer thick without impairing recording characteristics. The photo-responsive high-molecular compound preferably comprises an aromatic ring on a main chain. Further, the photo-responsive high-molecular compound preferably comprises a structural unit which is capable of forming a liquid-crystalline or crystalline polymer and a structural unit which is capable of forming an amorphous polymer.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes: a focusing lens that focuses light which is one of recording light being irradiated to an optical recording medium with reference light for recording a hologram and reference light being irradiated to an optical recording medium for reading out a hologram; and a focal position-shifting unit that refracts the light while moving in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium, so as to shift a focal position of the light in the optical recording medium a distance in a thickness direction of the optical recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram-recording method including recording a reflection-type volume hologram onto an optical recording medium by irradiating the optical recording medium with a modulated beam obtained by spatially modulating a laser beam and a diffused beam obtained by diffusing the modulated beam, coaxially but from different sides of the optical recording medium, respectively. The invention provides a hologram-recording method, an optical recording medium, and a hologram-recording device that enables on-demand recording of a reflection-type volume hologram which reliably prohibits forgery or alteration with a simple device configuration.

Abstract: A holographic recording apparatus is provided and includes: a signal light generation section that generates signal light modulated according to digital data; a reference light generation section that generates reference light modulated by means of a pixel pitch; a adding section that adds, in proximity to a light-convergence position where the signal light and the reference light come close to each other or overlap each other, a low-order component of the signal light obtained by Fourier transform and a high-order component of the reference light obtained by Fourier transform, the high-order component of the reference light having a spatial frequency region differing from that of the low-order component of the signal light; and an illumination optical system that irradiate an optical recording medium with the added signal and reference light.

Abstract: An optical device for holographic recording or reading is provided and includes: a light emission unit that emits light to be irradiated on an optical recording medium, the light being recording or reading light; a first prism unit that moves in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium and refracts the light to move the light irradiated on the optical recording medium over a distance in a moving direction of the optical recording medium so that the light is irradiated on substantially the same position on the optical recording medium for a period of time; and a second prism unit that moves in accordance with the moving speed of the first prism unit to compensate for an optical path length of the light.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a hologram erasing method, in which a predetermined hologram is erased by irradiating a predetermined region of a hologram recording medium in which the hologram to be erased is recorded with a reference light beam and a signal light beam holding a random data pattern at the same time. In this method, the signal light beam and the reference light beam interfere with each other in the medium, and a Fourier transform hologram recorded in the region where the interference occurs is destroyed and erased by interference light beam. That is, a data page for erasing including a random pattern is overwritten to erase an original data page. According to the present invention, the hologram recorded in the optical recording medium can be selectively and completely erased in a simple method.

Abstract: A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). in formula (1), L1 representing a bivalent linking group, X representing a group having a substituent constant ? based on Hammett's rule of a value of more than 0, the maximum absorption wavelength of an azobenzene group bonding to X being approximately 360 nm or less, A representing a group that is a component of a repeating unit with a carbon number of 2 or more that is a component of a macromolecular main chain, nx representing an integer of 1 or 2, and n representing an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: There is provided a hologram recording method, including generating a signal light which is spatially modulated such that digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, irradiating the signal light on an optical recording medium after a Fourier transformation of the signal light such that a zero-order component of the signal light comes into focus at a point removed from the optical recording medium, forming a diffraction grating in the optical recording medium by interference between the zero-order component of the signal light and a high-order component thereof, and recording digital data represented by the signal light as a hologram.

Abstract: There is provided a hologram recording medium having: a recording layer at which a hologram can be recorded by illumination of writing light; and a protective layer provided on the recording layer in order to protect the recording layer, a water absorbency of the protective layer being less than or equal to 0.01%.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image formation device including: an image reading section which reads an image from an image formation member, at which image formation member the image is formed and a hologram recording medium is mounted, associated information relating to the image being stored as a hologram in the hologram recording medium; an information acquisition section which acquires the stored associated information from the hologram recording medium; an image processing section which processes the image read by the image reading section in accordance with the associated information acquired by the information acquisition section; and an image formation section which forms an image processed by the image processing section.

Abstract: An optical recording apparatus comprises: a focusing section that focuses to a transmission type recording medium a recording light beam including a signal light beam and a reference light beam which are radiated from a same direction with a common optical axis; and a focused-position moving section that moves with respect to a direction of the optical axis a focused position where the recording light beam is focused to the transmission type recording medium by the focusing section, wherein an interference fringe formed by the recording light beam is recorded in the transmission type recording medium at each position which is moved by the focused-position moving section.

Abstract: A postprocessing apparatus for conducting postprocessing on an image forming member, including a receiving unit for receiving an image forming member having an image formed thereon, and an attaching unit for attaching a hologram recording medium in which a hologram can be written, to the image forming member. The postprocessing apparatus further includes a recording unit for writing related information corresponding to image formed on the image forming member, onto the hologram recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram recording method includes generating a signal beam with data formed by superimposing pattern data, the pattern data representing a pattern in which a large number of plural kinds of pixels having different tone values are arranged in a two-dimensional manner, on an image data of respective pixels represented by tone values corresponding to density, and recording a hologram by irradiating a converted beam formed by Fourier transformation of the generated signal beam with a lens and a reference beam to an optical recording medium.

Abstract: A hologram recording method is disclosed in which: signal light includes a plurality of arranged reversal regions in which lightness and darkness of plural pixels of a light and dark image is reversed for an intensity distribution of the light and dark image; the signal light is Fourier-transformed; the Fourier-transformed signal light and reference light are illuminated onto an optical recording medium; and the signal light is recorded as a hologram. Also is disclosed an apparatus capable of implementing the hologram recording method, and an optical recording medium usable with the method.