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Imaging apparatus and microscope

US8098279B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NIKON CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

Ichiro Sase · Tokyo, JP
Toshiaki Nihoshi · Yokohama, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 23, 2009
Grant date	Jan 17, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 15, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03B17/48
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Providing an imaging apparatus and a microscope capable of taking two-dimensional images of a sample at a plurality of observation positions different in the optical axis direction at the same time. The apparatus includes an image-forming lens 15 that forms images of a sample 4 on a plurality of image-forming places; an optical-path-dividing member 17, 18, 19 that divides an optical path from the same area in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the sample 4 so as to form the plurality of image-forming places; and an optical-path-length-changing member 27, 28, 29 that is provided on at least one optical path between the plurality of image-forming places and the imaging lens 15.

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