Microscope and microscopy method having different sequences of evaluating pixels and switching light sources

US10831008B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Kleppe · Jena, DE
• Thomas Kalkbrenner · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 2, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 10, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B27/10
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A microscope having an imaging beam path, an illumination beam path, a detection device, and a control device for controlling the detection device and the illumination device. The control device divides the light sources of the detection device in an array into at least a first and a second group, wherein each group is composed of light sources adjacent to each other in the array and covers part of the array. The control device switches on only one light source of the first group at a point in time and connects the light sources of the first group in a sequence with a clocking in such a way that two light sources switched on one after the other are adjacent to each other in the array and switches the light sources of the second group with the same clocking as the light sources of the first group. The control device reads out the detection device with the same clocking as the connecting of the light sources.