IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS

摘要

A laser beam emitted from a high output semiconductor laser 101 is irradiated into an interference type optical shutter 105 by a first optical system 103 as a wide laser beam along a predetermined direction which intersects with an emitted direction of the laser beam, and also a voltage which mates with the images to be recorded on the recording medium 3 is selectively applied to the electrode pairs of the interference type optical shutter 105, thus the laser beam being input into the interference type optical shutter 105 is optically modulated by an electromechanical operation of a flexible thin film to thus irradiate onto the recording medium 3 via a second optical system 107. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus with high reliability, which is able to record the image on the recording medium in the heat mode at high speed by using the high power laser, can be provided.