Scanning optical microscope

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2007-05-29

2007-05-29

Dunn, Drew A. (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Compound lens system

Microscope

C359S384000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11225098

ABSTRACT:
A scanning optical microscope using a wavefront converting element suffers minimum off-axis performance degradation and allows the wavefront converting element to be controlled by a simple method. Further, a pupil relay optical system is simple in arrangement or unnecessary. A laser scanning microscope includes a laser oscillator and a wavefront converting element for applying a desired wavefront conversion to a laser beam emitted from the laser oscillator. An objective collects a wavefront-converted approximately parallel laser beam emerging from the wavefront converting element onto a sample. A detector detects signal light emitted from the sample. An actuator scans the objective along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.

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