Patent ID: 9239454
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A microscope, comprising: an illumination device, that generates a sheet of light extending along an illumination beam path for illuminating a sample region, the sheet of light having an illumination axis (X) in the direction of the illumination beam path and a transverse axis (Y) lying across the illumination axis (X), the sheet of light having an approximately planar extension, a detection device used to detect light that is radiated by the sample region along a detection beam path in a direction of a detection axis (Z), wherein the angle between the illumination axis (X) and the detection axis (Z) are unequal to zero and the angle between the transverse axis (Y) and the detection axis (Z) are unequal to zero, the detection device comprising a detection objective arranged in the detection beam path, a splitter for splitting the detection beam path into two branch beam paths, and a pair of spatially resolving array detectors, arranged in each of the respective branch beam paths onto which the light to be detected can be imaged, and wherein the splitter comprises at least one dichroic beam splitter, wherein the dichroic beam splitter is arranged in a near-infinity space of the beam path with reference to the pair of spatially resolving array detectors, the dichroic beam splitter having a thickness of at least 3 mm, at least one c-mount interface including lateral adjusting screws by which at least one of the spatially resolving array detectors is coupled to the microscope, and wherein the detection device further comprises a pair of optical imaging elements, one in each of the two branch beam paths for imaging the light to be detected onto the respective array detectors, and further comprising in at least one of the two branch beam paths, at least one wobble plate positioned in the at least one of the two beam paths between the optical imaging element of the branch beam path and the respective array detector and oriented relative to the at least one of the two beam paths such that operation of the wobble plate displaces the light radiated by the sample transversely relative to the beam path, along two mutually orthogonal directions across the detection axis (Z), onto at least one of the two spatially resolving array detectors, wherein the wobble plates adjust images on the two array detectors such that a pixel to pixel correspondence of the images between the array detectors is achieved and pixel values read out between the array detectors are directly superimposed.