Arrangement for illumination and/or detection in a microscope

US7212338B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Weyh · Munich, DE
• Ulrich Simon · Kahla, DE
• Guenter Schoeppe · Jena, DE
• Ralf Wolleschensky · Jena, DE
• Michael Stock · Limburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 2004
• Grant date: May 1, 2007
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B26/0841
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A laser scanning microscope comprises at least one selectively switchable micro-mirror arrangement (DMD) in the illumination beam path and/or detection beam path which is used for the wavelength selection of dispersively divided illumination and/or object light such as reflection, fluorescence.