Patent ID: 7292518

Claim:
An apparatus for recording information comprising: a recording medium driving controller for driving an optical recording medium, a light source comprising a one-dimensional diode array constituted with a plurality of laser diodes arranged in a line for generating a plurality of light beams, a modulation control signal generator for supplying the laser diodes in said light source with modulation control signals varying in response to information to be recorded so that the laser diodes in said light source generate modulated light beams which are modulated in response to the modulation control signals and arranged in a line in accordance with an arrangement of said laser diodes, and an optical system for focusing the modulated light beams obtained from said light source so that geometric optical images of said modulated light beams are reduced over the diffraction limit thereof and for causing the modulated light beams thus focused to be incident upon the optical recording medium driven by said recording medium driving controller to record the information to be recorded on the optical recording medium.