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Optical system

US7706076B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Micromanaging GmbH · DE

Inventors

Michael James Brehm · Allen, US
Rolf Wartmann · Bösinghausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 21, 2005
Grant date	Apr 27, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 19, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B21/082
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical system for arranging between a light source and a field diaphragm in an illumination beam path of a microscope comprises n imaging optical elements with focal lengths fi and Abbe numbers νi (i=1, . . . , n). The following relationship is met for the optical system:where hi is one half of the bundle diameter of a bundle of light rays proceeding from a point of the light source at the entrance to the imaging optical element i.

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