Global Patent Index - EP 1664887 A1

EP 1664887 A1 20060607 - CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE

Title (en)

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE

Title (de)

KONFOKALES LASER-SCANNING-MIKROSKOP

Title (fr)

MICROSCOPE CONFOCAL A BALAYAGE LASER

Publication

EP 1664887 A1 20060607 (DE)

Application

EP 04765251 A 20040915

Priority

  • EP 2004010344 W 20040915
  • DE 10344060 A 20030923

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005033767A1] The invention relates to a confocal laser scanning microscope comprising a excitation beam path, which bundles excitation radiation into a number of spots (30) located in an object plane (11), and comprising a detection radiation path, which confocally projects the spots (30) onto a multichannel detector (15.2) by means of pinhole diaphragms (14.2). The inventive microscope also comprises a scanning device (4, 5, 37), which executes a two-dimensional relative motion between an object located in the object planes (11) and the spots (30). During a relative motion, said scanning device (4, 5, 37) displaces the spots (30) along a first direction (32) and, as a result, scans a strip of the object (34) by using the spots (30), after which it displaces the spots (30) along a second direction (33) in order to subsequently scan an adjacent strip by a displacement along the first direction (32) again.

IPC 1-7

G02B 21/00

IPC 8 full level

G02B 21/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G02B 21/0032 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2005033767A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005033767 A1 20050414; DE 10344060 A1 20050504; EP 1664887 A1 20060607; JP 2007506146 A 20070315; US 2007041090 A1 20070222

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 2004010344 W 20040915; DE 10344060 A 20030923; EP 04765251 A 20040915; JP 2006527313 A 20040915; US 57297904 A 20040915