Light microscope and microscopy method

US9989746B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Bathe · Jena, DE
• Ralf Netz · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 5, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/008
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical microscope having a sample plane for positioning a sample, and a light source for emitting illumination light, includes optical imaging means for guiding the illumination light into the sample plane. A detector device having a plurality of detector elements for detecting sample light coming from the sample. Adjacent detector elements are at a distance from one another which is smaller than an Airy-Disk produced by a point of the sample plane on the detector device. A scanning device has at least a first and a second optical arrangement simultaneously movable in a common direction for producing an illumination scanning movement and a detection scanning movement, which are opposite to one another. Sample regions spaced apart from one another can be examined simultaneously, such that both a beam path of the sample light from the sample plane to the detector device and a beam path of the illumination light from the light source to the sample plane run via the first optical arrangement and only one of these two beam paths runs via the second optical arrangement.