Patent ID: 7139073

Claim:
An image pickup system comprising: an optical unit, comprising in turn a cylindrical lens, which, for a light flux emitted from a light source, converges only light flux components of a single direction within a section perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the light flux; an objective lens, on which said light flux emitted from said cylindrical lens is made incident after the light flux has passed the convergence position and which guides said light flux to a sample, and projecting a slit-shaped light flux onto said sample; a galvanomirror, disposed along the optical path of said light flux between said cylindrical lens and said objective lens and at said convergence position; a TV camera, capturing light flux emitted from said sample in accordance with the incidence of said slit-shaped light flux onto said sample; and a dichroic mirror, disposed along the optical path of said light beam between said cylindrical lens and said galvanomirror and reflecting components of a predetermined wavelength band in the direction of said galvanomirror, wherein the light flux that is emitted from said sample is made incident on said TV camera via said objective lens, said galvanomirror, and said dichroic mirror, successively.