Correction device for an optical arrangement and confocal microscope with such a device

US7692879B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Micromanaging GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joerg Steinert · Jena, DE
• Matthias Wald · Jena, DE
• Saskia Pergande · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2007
• Grant date: Apr 6, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/0072
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A correction device for an imaging optical arrangement exhibiting a light path (1), in particular for a microscope, that exhibits at least one plane-parallel transparent plate (9), which is held in a mounting plate in the image beam path (1) and is propelable around at least one axle in a tipping and/or a swiveling motion, in order in adjust a definite parallel misalignment of the beams in the image beam path (1) by a change in the tipping situation of the plate (9). A confocal microscope with such a correction device exhibits a confocal screen (4), which illustrates a specimen mark (10), whereby the plane-parallel plate (9) is placed in front of the detector unit (2) in the light path (1), in order to center the illustration of the aperture diaphragm on the detector unit.