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Microscope with a sheet of light

US9110301B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

Helmut Lippert · Jena, DE
Christopher Power · Jena, DE
Robert Hauschild · Jena, DE
Matthias Wald · Jena, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 17, 2010
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 27, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B21/06
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A family of microscopes with illumination systems directing a sheet of light having an approximately planar extension in an illumination axis of an illumination beam path and in a transverse axis orthogonally oriented to the illumination axis. The microscopes have detection devices used to detect light that is emitted by a sample region. The detection devices including a detection lens system disposed in the detection beam path and an optical detection element spaced from a front lens of the detection lens system and independently adjustable thereof. The optical detection element continuously varies the size of a detection image field and/or continuously displaces a focal plane of detection in the P-region.

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