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Microscope with a light sheet

US9500849B2 · 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	Jul 14, 2015
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 14, 2035

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 illumination device, emits illumination light and has two illumination beam paths. A first illumination beam path illuminates the sample region from a first direction on the illumination axis and a second illumination beam path illuminates the sample region from a second opposing direction on the illumination axis. A switching element alternately switches the illumination light between the first illumination beam path and the second illumination beam path, or shifts the light sheet in a direction of the detection axis for adjusting or both.

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