Patent ID: 9429743
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G01N,G02B

Claim Text:
1. An optical imaging system having a plurality of image planes, the system comprising: a microscope configured to image an object to a first plane; a spectral device having an input and output and adapted to receive, at the input, an image formed by the microscope at the first plane and to produce, at the output, a light distribution comprising spatially-coded spectral content of the image formed by the microscope at the first plane; and a beam-splitter device in optical communication with the spectral device, the beam-splitter device having an input optical axis, including a plurality of optical channels respectively corresponding to the plurality of image planes, each of the optical channels from the plurality of the optical channels being adapted to re-image the light distribution onto a corresponding image plane such as to form a corresponding image representing a corresponding layer of the object located at a corresponding depth within the object.