Patent ID: 7933065

Claim:
Stereoscopic microscope for imaging an object that can be placed in an object plane of the stereoscopic microscope, wherein the stereoscopic microscope provides at least one pair of imaging beam paths and comprises: at least one deflecting element having a mirror surface; and an imaging system with multiple optical elements; wherein the multiple optical elements comprise a plurality of lenses and wherein the multiple optical elements are configured such that pupil planes of the imaging beam paths intersect the mirror surface of the at least one deflecting element or are separated from the mirror surface by a distance wherein the distance is smaller than 1.5 times a diameter of a lens that is located closest to the mirror surface along the imaging beam paths of the plurality of lenses, wherein each of the pupil planes is the curved or flat plane in which central or main beams of beam bundles guided in the at least one pair of imaging beam paths intersect one another, wherein the central or main beams are emitted from different object points in the object plane.