Patent ID: 7944608

Claim:
A microscope comprising: an illuminating optical system that illuminates a sample; an illumination-side pupil modulating device that is arranged on a side of the illuminating optical system opposing to a side of an objective lens; an illumination-side turret that holds the illumination-side pupil modulating device; an illumination-side-turret revolving mechanism that revolves the illumination-side turret to move the illumination-side pupil modulating device along a predetermined orbital circumference in a plane surface perpendicular to an optical axis; a relaying optical system that relays a pupil of the objective lens; an imaging-side pupil modulating device that is arranged on a side of the relaying optical system; an imaging-side turret that holds the imaging-side pupil modulating device; and an imaging-side-turret revolving mechanism that revolves the imaging-side turret to move the imaging-side pupil modulating device along a predetermined orbital circumference on a plane surface perpendicular to the optical axis, wherein when the orbital circumference of the illumination-side pupil modulating device and the orbital circumference of the imaging-side pupil modulating device are projected on planes perpendicular to the optical axis along the optical axis, and when viewing from a direction along the optical axis, at an intersection point of the orbital circumferences, a tangent line of the orbital circumference of the illumination-side pupil modulating device and a tangent line of the orbital circumference of the imaging-side pupil modulating device are substantially perpendicular to each other.