Patent ID: 7016101
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A scanning microscope comprising: an objective that defines an illumination beam path and a detection beam path and being arranged in both the illumination beam path and the detection beam path; an interchangeable module arranged in the illumination beam path and detection beam path that separates the illumination beam path and detection beam path at a fixed angular relationship to one another and that comprises at least a first acoustooptical component; and an optical compensation element that compensates for a double refraction and a prismatic effect of the acoustooptical component; wherein the optical compensation element contains a further acoustooptical component; and wherein the further acoustooptical component and the first acoustooptical component are oriented rotated 180 degrees from one another with reference to the propagation direction of the detected light beam striking the first acoustooptical component.