Patent ID: 8284482
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A microscope imaging an object that can be placed in an object plane of the microscope, wherein the microscope provides at least one imaging beam path and comprises: at least one deflecting element with a mirror surface; and an imaging system with several optical elements; wherein the several optical elements comprise a plurality of lenses and wherein the several optical elements are configured such that a plane defined by a pupil of the at least one imaging beam path is located neighboring the mirror surface and intersects the mirror surface of the at least one deflecting element or is located with a distance from the mirror surface, wherein the distance is smaller than 1.5 times a diameter of a lens located closest to the mirror surface along the at least one imaging beam path of the plurality of lenses, wherein the pupil plane is the curved or flat plane in which central or main beams of beam bundles guided in the at least one imaging beam path intersect one another, wherein the central or main beams are emitted from different object points in the object plane.