Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for improved focus tracking using a light source configuration
-
Application No.: US16542640Application Date: 2019-08-16
-
Publication No.: US11143856B2Publication Date: 2021-10-12
- Inventor: Danilo Condello , Simon Prince , John O'Shaughnessy , Christophe Sigel , Ashkan Arianpour
- Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
- Current Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
- Priority: NL2018857 20170505
- Main IPC: G02B21/36
- IPC: G02B21/36 ; G02B21/02 ; G02B21/24 ; G02B21/00 ; G02B21/06 ; G02B21/18

Abstract:
An imaging system including a light source; a first focusing lens positioned to focus a beam from the light source to a beam waist at a predetermined location along an optical path of the beam in the imaging system; a beam splitter positioned relative to the first focusing lens to receive the beam from the first focusing lens and to create first and second beams; a second focusing lens positioned to receive the first and second beams output by the beam splitter, to focus the received first and second beams to a spot sized dimensioned to fall within a sample to be image, and further positioned to receive first and second beams reflected from the sample; an image sensor positioned to receive the light beams reflected from the sample; and a roof prism positioned in the optical path between the second focusing lens and the image sensor.
Information query