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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115992 | Structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy In accordance with the invention, there are imaging interferometric microscopes and methods for imaging interferometric microscopy using structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy. Furthermore, there are c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8081378 | Microscope A microscope apparatus can generate information of a super-resolved image at high speed. For that purpose, the microscope apparatus of the present invention is equipped with an image-forming optical system for forming an intermediate image of light emitted from a sp... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077387 | Optical microscope An optical microscope, which has a light source, for observing a sample by illuminating light from the light source on the sample includes a second light source that is different from the light source and is insertable/removable in/from the optical path of the optic... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072679 | Microscope and method of providing image data using the same A microscope includes optics configured to direct beams onto an object including a reflective material, a detector configured to receive a field spectrum formed by beams reflected by the object, and a calculator configured to reconstruct an image of the object from ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8045263 | Device and method for wide-field and high resolution imaging of tissue A device for wide-field and high resolution imaging of an object surface includes first and second imaging modalities, a lens associated with the second imaging modality. The first imaging modality is high resolution with a first observation line. The second imaging... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8027085 | Microscope with centered illumination A microscope comprising a main objective having a lens assembly movable in the direction of the optical axis of the main objective for focal length change and comprising an illuminating unit with illumination deflector elements for deflecting an illuminating beam pa... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023184 | Device and method for high-intensity uniform illumination with minimal light reflection for use in microscopes A device for high-intensity uniform illumination with minimal light reflection for use in reflective-type microscopes has a light source with a uniform emission and the following components, arranged in succession in the emission direction: a lens combination with a... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014064 | Microscope illumination device A microscope illumination device comprising: a light source; an objective for illuminating a specimen; a collector lens for converting light from the light source into parallel light; a fly-eye lens placed near to rear focal point of the collector lens; an epi-illum... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995271 | Laser microscope with negative dispersion optical system A laser microscope is provided which includes a laser light source, a first optical fiber through which the ultrashort pulse laser light propagates while being positively chirped, a negative dispersion optical system that negatively chirps this propagated laser ligh... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990611 | Optical lattice microscopy using periodic interference patterns of coherent waves A microscope includes a source of electromagnetic radiation, having a wavelength, λ1 and dividing optical elements configured for dividing the radiation from the source into multiple excitation beams. The microscope also includes a detector and directing... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978404 | Surgical microscope having an OCT-system A surgical microscope (100) has a viewing beam path for main viewing and a secondary beam path (106) for viewing by another person. The surgical microscope (100) has a microscope main objective (101) through which the viewing beam path fo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978405 | Optical system for cell imaging A microscope system (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) includes a laser (18) or light emitting diode (18′″) that generates source light having a non-uniform spatial distribution. An optical system includes an objective (40) defining a field... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957058 | Microscope A microscope for introducing light from a light source via an objective lens to a sample so that a user observes the sample via the objective lens includes: a minute opening arranged in an optical path between the light source and the objective lens and on a focal p... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7936502 | Microscope A microscope device comprising a microscope objective and a plate-like body limited by a flat top face and a flat lower face essentially parallel thereto, with the microscope objective being connected to the plate-like body, and with a portion of a beam path of the ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7924502 | Microscope with centered illumination A microscope comprising a main objective including a lens assembly movable in the direction of the optical axis of the main objective for focal length variation and comprising an illuminating unit with an illumination deflector element for generating an illuminating... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907336 | Surgical microscope having an illuminating arrangement A surgical microscope (100) has an illuminating arrangement (110) which can guide illuminating light to the object region (105) with a first illuminating beam path (111) and with a second illuminating beam path (112). A light exit ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7894131 | Laser microscope A laser microscope is provided wherein a drop in output power in a positive-dispersion element used as a pulse compressor is reduced, thus improving multiphoton-excitation efficiency. Also, a size of the positive-dispersion element is reduced, thereby making it easi... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7872798 | Microscopic apparatus and observing method A microscopic apparatus and an observing method can obtain information of a super-resolved image of an object under observation with a high SN ratio. Therefore, the microscopic apparatus including an illuminating optical system that illuminates a specimen plane of a... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869124 | Laser microscope It is an object to perform high-precision observation by compensating group-velocity-delay dispersion and angular dispersion with a simple structure. The invention provides a laser microscope 1 including a light source; an acousto-optic deflector 7 tha... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869123 | Laser scanning microscope with high-speed data processing Specimen laser-scanning microscope with raster scanning illumination and detector modules, which illuminates and detects a specimen by raster scanning. A real-time control device (device) performs synchronous reading-out with the raster scanning pixel cycle. A data ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852553 | Microscope illumination apparatus A microscope illumination apparatus, which has at least three kinds of light sources, each of a different emission wavelength region and a different figure and size of the light-emitting section, and supplies emitted light from individual light sources as illuminati... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848017 | Microscope device A microscope device including a coherent light source, an illuminating optical system which has light beam splitting means that splits the coherent light source into light beams and phase-modulating means disposed near a pupil conjugate plane and adapted for modulat... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843634 | Automatic focus detection device and microscope system having the same An AF dark field illumination device and an objective lens are moved in unity. A tissue sample in a Petri dish is illuminated by infrared light incident with an oblique angle from an LED light source. The casting of the infrared light causes scattered light from the... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839566 | Surgical microscopy system and imaging method A surgical microscopy system having an illumination system is provided. The illumination system comprises a xenon gas discharge lamp and a spectral filter which is optionally positionable into an illumination beam path of the surgical microscopy system and removable... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817335 | Microscope apparatus A microscope apparatus including a light source device, a storage table, and a setting controller is provided. The light source device includes a light intensity adjuster which changes light intensity of an illumination light of plural different wavelength regions s... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7808699 | Microscope lens for total internal reflection microscopy and microscope A microscope objective includes an optical fiber. The optical fiber can deliver light for total internal reflection microscopy. The optical fiber can couple illumination light directly into the microscope objective through the optical fiber. ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804642 | Scanning examination apparatus A scanning examination apparatus 1 is provided, the apparatus including a detachable objective lens 6 or 6′, a scanner 3 for two-dimensionally scanning light F from a specimen 100 focused by the objective lens 6 or 6′... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796328 | Laser scanning microscope with illumination perpendicular to the optical axis Arrangement for microscopic observation and/or detection of a sample that is at least partially transparent by way of a microscope objective, whereby an illumination of the sample outside the objective is carried out from at least from one side at an angle to the op... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787179 | Optical arrangement for the production of a light-sheet The invention is directed to an optical arrangement with a light source for emitting a light bundle and with optical elements for transforming this light bundle into the shape of a light sheet, particularly suitable for illuminating individual planes of a three-dime... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782529 | Scanning microscope and method for examining a sample by using scanning microscopy A scanning microscope including a light source for generating an illumination light beam, a beam deflection apparatus for guiding solely the illumination light beam via an illumination light path over and/or through a sample, at least one objective for focusing the ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7764424 | Light source apparatus and microscope apparatus A wavelength selection unit includes a light source which emits light of at least a predetermined wavelength region, a collector lens which collects the light emitted from the light source and emits a parallel flux which is inclined relative to a light axis of an op... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7733565 | Laser microscope It is possible to change a focal position or spot diameter of an optical stimulation laser beam without causing any misalignment of the optical axis, thus precisely applying optical stimulation to a desired position or region on a specimen. The invention provides a ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7733564 | Applications of adaptive optics in microscopy The use of one or more wavefront modulators in the observation beam path and/or illumination beam path of a microscope provide various advantageous results. Such modulators may be adapted to change the phase and/or the amplitude of light in such a way to carry out d... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697199 | Lighting device and observation device A lighting device (40) is described for an observation device (10), in particular for an ophthalmologic operating microscope, as well as such an observation device (10). The lighting device (40) has a light source (41) as well as a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7688504 | Optical scanning microscope Microscope, in particular an optical scanning microscope with illumination of a specimen via a beam splitter, which is arranged in an objective pupil and includes at least a reflecting first portion and at least a transmitting second portion, whereby the reflecting ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7679822 | Broadband laser illumination device for a scanning microscope with output stabilization The arrangement for examining microscope preparations with a scanning microscope comprises a laser (1) and an optical means (12) which images the light generated by the laser (1) onto a specimen (13) that is to be examined. Provided betwe... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7660035 | Scanning microscope A scanning microscope includes at least one light source, an acousto-optical element, a beam deflection device and a beam guiding device. The at least one light source generates an illuminating light beam. The acousto-optical element spatially splits a sub-light bea... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7649683 | Process for the observation of at least one sample region with a light raster microscope with linear sampling Process for observing at least one sample region with a light raster microscope by a relative movement between the illumination light and sample via a first scanner along at least one scanning axis essentially perpendicular to the illumination axis wherein several i... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649685 | Fluorescence/infrared device for surgical microscopes The invention relates to an arrangement for a stereomicroscope, having an illumination apparatus (20) whose light lies in a regulatable spectral region. This illumination apparatus can be freely supplemented by at least one further illumination apparatus (... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649684 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus minimizes autofluorescence and stray light as well as leakage of excitation light and efficiently utilizes illuminating light from a fluorescence illumination optical system to allow observation of a bright fluorescence image. An observation app... | 01/19/2010 |
