Patent ID: 9690086
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A widefield microscope illumination system having: a microscope objective that comprises an optical objective axis; an illumination light source that sends widefield illumination light along illumination beam paths having corresponding illumination axes along which the illumination light penetrates into the microscope objective through illumination light entry sites located within a predetermined annular or annular-segment-shaped illumination light entry area having a large offset between the illumination light entry area and the optical objective axis; a spatially resolving light detector that detects detected light sent from an illuminated sample through the microscope objective along a detected light beam path; and an automatic illumination light beam path manipulation device, controlled by a control system, which is arranged in front of the microscope objective in relation to the direction of the illumination light beam path, and by means of which illumination light beam path manipulation device the illumination axes are automatically movable at time intervals to a plurality of different illumination light entry sites within the predetermined annular or annular-segment-shaped illumination light entry area.