公开(公告)号：US10416428B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US15913903

申请日：2018-03-06

Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.

Inventor： Danilo Condello ,  Simon Prince ,  John O'Shaughnessy ,  Christophe Sigel ,  Ashkan Arianpour

IPC: G02B21/36 ,  G02B21/02 ,  G02B21/00 ,  G02B21/06 ,  G02B21/18 ,  G02B21/24

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.

公开(公告)号：US20180188514A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-05

申请号：US15852699

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: Illumina, Inc.

Inventor： Ashkan Arianpour ,  John Bailey ,  Dustin Blair ,  Xiangling (Steve) Chen ,  Stanley S. Hong ,  Simon Prince ,  Merek C. Siu ,  Chunhong (Allen) Zhou ,  Danilo Condello

IPC: G02B21/00 ,  G02B7/10 ,  G02B27/16

CPC classification number: G02B21/002 ,  G02B7/09 ,  G02B7/102 ,  G02B21/006 ,  G02B27/16

Abstract: An imaging system may include a sample stage comprising a surface to support a sample container, the sample container having a plurality of sample locations; an optical stage having an objective lens, the optical stage being positionable relative to the sample stage to image samples at the sample locations; an actuator physically coupled to at least one of the sample stage and the optical stage to move the sample stage relative to the optical stage to focus the optical stage onto a current sample location; and a drive circuit to determine a focus setting for a next sample location and to provide a drive signal to the actuator before the optical stage is positioned to image a sample at the next sample location, wherein at least one parameter of the drive signal is determined using a difference between a focus setting for the current sample location and the determined focus setting for the next sample location.