Patent ID: 9500849
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A microscope, comprising: an illumination device, that together with a first scanning mirror, is configured to generate a sheet of light that illuminates a sample region; the sheet of light having an illumination axis X- and a transverse axis Y lying across the illumination axis X, the sheet of light having an approximately planar extension; the illumination device, configured to emit illumination light and having two illumination beam paths including a first illumination beam path and a second illumination beam path; the first illumination beam path being configured to illuminate the sample region from a first direction on the illumination axis X and the second illumination beam path being configured to illuminate the sample region from a second opposing direction on the illumination axis X; a switching element; and wherein the switching element alternately switches the illumination light between the first illumination beam path and the second illumination beam path, or shifts the light sheet in a direction of the detection axis for adjusting or both.