Patent ID: 8045262
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A laser scanning microscope having a scanning mechanism for performing scanning on a sample with laser light emitted from a light source, comprising: a memory that has a bit width wider than a bit width of drive data for driving the scanning mechanism and stores the time series drive data in a direction perpendicular to the bit width of the memory; and a controller applied to set a control signal in chronological order for controlling a predetermined operation in a predetermined mechanism that has a strict time relationship with the scanning based on the drive data, in bits in the bit width of the memory, excluding the bits used by the drive data, such that the drive data is synchronized with the direction perpendicular to the bit width, wherein the predetermined mechanism performs the predetermined operation based on the control signal that is read sequentially in the direction perpendicular to the bit width of the memory simultaneously when the drive data is read from the memory.