Patent ID: 6934079

Claim:
A confocal microscope comprising: a microlens array having a plurality of microlenses for splitting a ray bundle of illumination light into a plurality of convergent partial ray bundles which illuminate a sample simultaneously at several measuring points; a beam splitter for separating a beam path of the illuminating light and a beam path of sample light originating from the illumination of the sample and captured in an inverse direction with regard to the illumination light; a pinhole diaphragm array having a plurality of pinhole diaphragms arranged in the beam path of the sample light and corresponding to said microlenses of said microlens array splitting the illumination light; and a further microlens array having a plurality of microlenses corresponding to said microlenses of said microlens array splitting the illumination light; said microlenses of said microlens array splitting the illumination light and said microlenses of said further microlens array being are arranged in the beam path of the sample light; said beam splitter being arranged in an area between said microlens array splitting the illumination light and said further microlens array; and said pinhole diaphragms of said pinhole diaphragm array being arranged out of the area between said microlens array splitting the illumination light and said further microlens array.