Scanning confocal optical microscope system
US6555811B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 9, 2001 |
| Grant date | Apr 29, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B21/0064
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A confocal scanning optical microscope system wherein a dispersive optical device such as a prism separates an image from a restricted area of a specimen into a spread of images of differing wavelengths. Different parts of the spread of images are focused at respective beam-limiting apertures which are conjugate with one another, and the spectrally differing beams passing through the beam-limiting apertures pass to respective detectors.
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