Optics: measuring and testing – By shade or color – With color transmitting filter
Patent
1997-04-04
1998-12-22
Evans, F. L.
Optics: measuring and testing
By shade or color
With color transmitting filter
2504581, 356 73, G01N 2164
Patent
active
058524983
ABSTRACT:
An optical instrument for use in collecting light from an object, the optical instrument having a post-objective waist with a variable optical filter positioned approximately at the post-objective waist. The invention also comprises an optical instrument for collecting light from an object, comprising an objective lens positioned to receive light from the object, an exit lens positioned to focus the light at a focal position, and a variable optical filter positioned between the objective lens and the focal position approximately at a waist of the light. The optical instrument may be an epifluorescence microscope for use in observing an image formed from light from an object under illumination by a light source. The light source may be, for example, a filtered light source or a monochromatic light source, preferably in an epifluorescence configuration. The variable optical filter may be a circular variable interference filter or a tilting interference filter. In some embodiments, the orientation of the filter may be varied to block light outside of one band at one time and outside of another band at another time. The variable filter preferably is band pass, blocking substantially all light at wavelengths other than a selected wavelength band.
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Yang Mary M.
Youvan Douglas C.
Evans F. L.
Kairos Scientific Inc.
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