MULTI-MODAL SPOT GENERATOR AND MULTI-MODAL MULTI-SPOT SCANNING MICROSCOPE
    1.
    发明公开
    MULTI-MODAL SPOT GENERATOR AND MULTI-MODAL MULTI-SPOT SCANNING MICROSCOPE 审中-公开
    多模式光斑发生器和多模式多SPOT GRID显微镜

    公开(公告)号:EP2232306A2

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-29

    申请号:EP08852174.5

    申请日:2008-11-19

    摘要: The invention relates to a spot generator (10) having: —an entrysurface (12) for receiving an incident light beam (20) and an exit surface (14) for (22, 24) transmitting the light beam, the entry surface defining an entryside (16) and the exit surface defining an exit side (18). According to the invention, the spot generator is designed to modulate the incident light beam to generate on the exit side a first plurality (22) and a second plurality (24) of separate light spots, each light spot belonging to the first plurality having a first angular spectrum and each light spot belonging to the second plurality having a second angular spectrum different than the first angular spectrum. Advantageously, the spot generator comprises a periodic binary phase structure. The invention further relates to a multi-spot scanning microscope and to a method of imaging a microscopic sample.

    MULTI-FOCAL SPOT GENERATOR AND MULTI-FOCAL MULTI-SPOT SCANNING MICROSCOPE
    2.
    发明公开
    MULTI-FOCAL SPOT GENERATOR AND MULTI-FOCAL MULTI-SPOT SCANNING MICROSCOPE 审中-公开
    多灶性点产生多病灶MULTI SPOT检测显微镜

    公开(公告)号:EP2215503A2

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-11

    申请号:EP08851443.5

    申请日:2008-11-19

    IPC分类号: G02B3/00 G02B27/00 G02B21/00

    摘要: The invention relates to a spot-generator (10) having: an entrance surface (12) for receiving an incident light beam (20) and an exit surface (14) for transmitting the light beam, the entrance surface defining an entrance side (16) and the exit surface defining an exit side (18), wherein the spot generator is designed to modulate the incident light beam to generate on the exit side a plurality of separate light spots. According to the invention, the plurality of light spots comprises a first light spot (22) generated in a first focal plane (24) and a second light spot (26) generated in a second focal plane (28), the first focal plane and the second focal plane being essentially perpendicular to the mean propagation direction of the exit light beam, and wherein the first light spot (22) differs from every other light spot generated on the exit side by the spot generator in the projection of its position on a plane essentially perpendicular to the mean propagation direction of the exit light beam. Advantageously, the light spots of the plurality of separate light spots have identical spectra. The invention further relates to a multi-spot scanning microscope and to a method of generating an image of a microscopic sample. Advantageously, the method comprises the step of generating a three-dimensional image of the sample.