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Laser scanning microscope

US9857578B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE
Carl Zeiss AG · DE

Inventors

Beate Boehme
Matthias Wald · Jena, DE
Tiemo Anhut · Jena, DE
Daniel Schwedt · Weimar, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 5, 2015
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 5, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B26/101
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A laser scanning microscope for the acquisition of object images according to varied observation criteria. The microscope includes an illumination and detection unit, an illumination and a detection beam, a microscope objective, a scanning device with a scanning optical component and several scanners, with switching mirrors, each mirror with two switching positions, provided in the illumination and detection beams. Each switching position is assigned to one of several different, optically separate beam paths and each beam path defines a separate operating mode. A concave mirror for imaging a first scanner into at least one more scanner and vice versa is arranged in at least one of the beam paths.

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