Patent ID: 8659819
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G02B,G02F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an acousto-optical component influencing at least one of illumination light and detection light in a beam path of a microscope and passing through the acousto-optical component, comprising a radio-frequency generator for supplying the acousto-optical component with a radio frequency, said radio-frequency generator has such properties that it compensates deviations in a characteristics of the at least one of the illumination light and the detection light due to temperature fluctuations, the method comprising: generating a control signal for controlling the radio frequency of the radio-frequency generator; measuring the actual temperature of the acousto-optical component; sending a signal corresponding to an actual temperature at the acousto-optical component to the radio-frequency generator and determining a compensation coefficient serving to adapt the radio frequency exclusively from a temperature of the acousto-optical component and a nominal radio frequency; adapting the control signal depending on the compensation coefficient; and sending the adapted control signal into the radio-frequency generator for compensating deviations in the characteristics of the at least one of the illumination light and the detection light due to temperature fluctuations.