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High density block oriented solid state optical memories

  • US 4,663,738 A
  • Filed: 12/04/1984
  • Issued: 05/05/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a solid state optical memory having a photoemitter array including a plurality of selectively and individually energizeable photoemitters, a photodetector array including a plurality of photosensors, and a data mask optically interposed between said photoemitter and photodetector arrays;

  • the improvement comprisinga lens array located between said photoemitter array and said data mask,said lens array including a plurality of spatially separated lenslets for focusing plural, spatially separated images of said photoemitter array in parallel onto said data mask, said images being optically aligned with respective ones of said photosensors and having sufficient resolution to separately resolve each of said photoemitters, whereby said memory is opticaly partitioned into a plurality of spatially displaced memory sectors and each of said memory sectors is optically subdivided into a plurality of selectively illuminable memory cells,said lenslets having apertures selected so that said images are essentially diffraction limited, whereby said memory sectors are finely subdivided for the storage of relatively densely compacted data.

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