Patent ID: 8922882

Claim:
An imaging system including a microscope system and an OCT system, wherein the microscope system is configured to image an object plane onto an image plane via an imaging beam path traversing an objective lens of the imaging system; wherein the OCT system comprises an OCT measuring beam emitter and OCT beam shaping optics, and is configured to provide an OCT beam path; and wherein the OCT system is further configured to direct OCT measuring light towards the object plane via the OCT beam path extending from the OCT measuring beam emitter and traversing the OCT beam shaping optics and the objective lens, wherein the OCT beam shaping optics is located outside of the imaging beam path and configured to change a lateral width of a beam waist of a beam of the OCT measuring light at the object plane, such that before and after the changing of the lateral width of the beam waist, the beam of the OCT measuring light is focused at the object plane.