Patent ID: 9696535
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01N,G02B

Claim:
1. An optical microscope, comprising: a first stage for supporting a sample; a second stage engaged with the first stage and movable relative to the first stage, the second stage including an optic, the optic having a distance of less than about 3 mm from the sample to the opposite side of the optic; and an illumination stage comprising a light source, the illumination stage engaged with the first stage and second stage, the illumination stage movable with the second stage, the light source positioned adjacent to the first stage to facilitate viewing the sample using the optic, wherein the optical microscope having bright field and filter field viewing capabilities wherein a user shifts from bright field to filter field by lateral movement of the second stage and the light source that cooperate to provide either the bright field or the filter field.