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7564618 |
Orientation independent differential interference contrast microscopy technique and device
A method for performing differential interference contrast microscopy on a specimen includes collecting at least two images with illumination respectively having first and second beam-shear...
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7385565 |
Projection-type display apparatus
A projection-type display apparatus that has enhanced the sense of being present by adaptively adjusting, with a simple constitution, projection illumination, depending on an image signal, without...
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7366394 |
Multilayer observation optical microscope and multilayer observation unit
In an optical microscope, a pair of convergence/collimation lenses ( 5, 6 ) are arranged in the common optical axis of a light beam directed toward a sample ( 15 ) being observed through an...
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7342717 |
Wave field microscope with detection point spread function
The present invention relates to two new wave field microscopes, type I and type II, which are distinguished by the fact that they each have an illumination and excitation system, which include at...
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7324273 |
Confocal self-interference microscopy from which side lobe has been removed
The present invention relates to confocal self-interference microscopy. The confocal self-interference microscopy further includes a first polarizer for polarizing reflected or fluorescent light...
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7304791 |
Optical microscope apparatus using convergent beam as illumination light
The optical microscope apparatus comprises an illuminating element for emitting as illumination light a convergent beam converging at a point in space; a sample mounting table for mounting a sample...
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7301697 |
Microscope device
Specularly reflected light from a convergence position on an object surface 31 enters a second critical-angle prism 14 , another prism 15 , and a first critical-angle prism 13 of a parallel...
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7292389 |
Circular extinction contrast imaging microscope
Systems and methods for producing circular extinction (CE) contrast images of anisotropic samples. Microscope systems for determining circular extinction (CE), the differential transmission of left...
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7151632 |
Apparatus for production of an inhomogeneously polarized optical beam for use in illumination and a method thereof
An apparatus for producing an inhomogeneously polarized optical beam from a homogeneously polarized input optical beam includes a first phase shifter, a second phase shifter, and one or more...
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7079316 |
Microscope and microscopy method for producing overlay images
A microscope includes an interference contrast transmitted-light device having an analyzer disposed in the microscope imaging beam path, the analyzer causing a beam deflection. A fluorescence...
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7046436 |
Arrangement and method for polarization-optical interference contrast
The invention is directed to a method of differential interference contrast in which the object is illuminated by natural light and the light coming from the object is first polarized after passing...
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6927888 |
Method and apparatus for imaging using polarimetry and matrix based image reconstruction
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for improving the signal to noise ratio, the contrast and the resolution in images recorded using an optical imaging system which produces a...
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6865013 |
High-resolution optical microscope
A direct-view optical microscope system is provided which uses high-energy light from a phenomenon known as non-resonant Raman scattering to illuminate a living biological specimen. One embodiment...
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6753968 |
Optical storage system based on scanning interferometric near-field confocal microscopy
A near-field, interferometric optical microscopy system includes: a beam splitter positioned to separate an input beam into a measurement beam and a reference beam; a mask positioned to receive the...
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6674574 |
Focusing system for a microscope and a reflected illumination fluorescence microscope using the focusing system
A focusing system for a microscope has an objective lens, a sample stage, a reflected illumination system for generating fluorescence from a sample, a transmitted illumination system for...
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6596982 |
Reflection suppression in focal plane arrays by use of blazed diffraction grating
A reflection suppression system for suppressing reflection from scanned infrared focal plane arrays using a system of two or more blazed diffraction gratings in the path of radiations to the array.
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6549334 |
Transmission illumination type differential interference microscope
In the transmission illumination type differential interference microscope, light in a given polarized state is separated by a first birefringent optical member 1 into two linearly polarized...
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6525875 |
Microscope generating a three-dimensional representation of an object and images generated by such a microscope
A microscope is disclosed which determines a complex three-dimensional representation of an object based on a series of recordings of the light wave diffracted by the object, wherein the direction...
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6449088 |
Variable darkfield illumination system for micro and macro optical imagers
A variable dark-field illumination method and apparatus to produce microscopic and macroscopic images with a variable dark-field effect thereby making best use of various detector response...
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6414792 |
Analyzer insert for a polarizing microscope
The invention relates to an analyzer insert ( 1 ) in which the rotation of an adjustment wheel ( 2 ) accessible from the outside is transmitted by means of two parallel adjustment levers ( 8, 9 )...
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6404544 |
Wavelength multiplexed quantitative differential interference contrast microscopy
A differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope system is provided comprising: (a) an illumination source for illuminating a sample; (b) a lens system for viewing the illuminated sample,...
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6404545 |
Optical apparatus and microscope
An optical apparatus and a microscope are designed so that high resolution and a high sectioning effect are provided; a time for obtaining an output image can be reduced; it is possible to observe...
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6323995 |
Optical element switching device and optical microscope loaded with the device
An optical element switching device is provided wherein a plurality of optical elements are held by a guide mechanism for guiding them to move straight or rotate and arranged on a turret, and...
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6317259 |
Interference microscope
An interference microscope includes an illumination optical system for making two light beams fall on a subject, an observation optical system for forming an interference image by causing...
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6317261 |
Phase contrast observation device
A phase contrast observation device for observing a phase object (O), and phase apertures for same. The device comprises, in order along an optical axis (AX), a light source (LS) capable of...
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6292287 |
Scanning confocal optical device
A scanning confocal optical device comprises a light source section, a light transmitting section, a light scanning section, a polarized-plane modulating element, a polarizing/separating element, a...
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6275335 |
Single-lens 3D method, microscope, and video adapter
A method and teaching for creating stereographic images with the use of a single lens is presented. A leading linear polarizing filter, a passive half-wave retarder, an electric switched...
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6229644 |
Differential interference contrast microscope and microscopic image processing system using the same
A differential interference contrast microscope including an illuminating light source, a polarizer for converting an illumination light ray into a linearly polarized light, a polarized light...
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6198573 |
Computer supported video microscope
The invention relates to a compact microscope 4 especially for medical routine applications. The microscope is configured as a closed housing 8 wherein the specimen 30 to be microscoped is drawn in...
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6144489 |
Confocal microscope
A confocal microscope comprises a light source, a focusing arrangement, a detector and an encoded mask (17). The light source illuminates the mast (17) and the encoded light is then focused on a...
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6137626 |
Optical system having polarization compensating optical system
An optical system having a polarization compensating optical system capable of compensating for retardation with high accuracy. The polarization compensating optical system includes a half-wave...
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6130776 |
Optical microscope which has optical modulation elements
For observing transparent phase objects and the like, an optical microscope is provided with an aperture element 13 and an optical modulation element 14 that creates an image having the detecting...
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6061120 |
Infrared microscope
When an operator causes an angle change, a rotation controller controls rotation of an aperture structure with an aperture. At the same time, a deviation amount calculator calculates a positional...
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6034814 |
Differential interference microscope
A reflected light differential interference microscope (100) having a birefringent optical member (B). Each birefringent optical member has a ray-separating plane (Q B ) that intersects the optical...
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6008936 |
Grazing angle microscope
The invention relates to a grazing angle microscope for spectroscopic applications. A novel light path having two shifting planar mirrors permits spectroscopic investigation of a sample area off...
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6005709 |
Microscope system for using transmitted light to observe living organisms
Microscope systems invention provide ability to image specimens, including specimens within living bodies, by imaging with transmitted light rather than solely with reflected light. The microscope...
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5982535 |
Centrifuge microscope capable of realizing polarized light observation
A centrifuge microscope includes a disk which is rotatable around a rotation axis and which is provided with a sample chamber for accommodating a sample. An observation optical system is provided...
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5969855 |
Microscope apparatus
A microscope apparatus that has an electronic image pickup device arranged on an image surface of an imaging optical system, a component for separating light from a light source into two portions,...
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5966204 |
Near-infrared microscope
A near-intfrared microscope has a light source device for illumination for emitting near-infrared rays, an illuminating optical system for illuminating a specimen with illumination light from the...
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5872651 |
Condenser system for microscopes
An exchangeable condenser system for a phase-contrast illuminating system (12) for microscopes has a plurality of different light rings (5), arranged on a nosepiece plate (4), assigned to the...
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5841577 |
Light microscope having acousto-optic tunable filters
A light microscope comprises a light source and a first acousto-optic tunable filter responsive to the light source for producing two light streams of different polarization. A control circuit is...
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5757542 |
Polarizing accessory system for microscopes
A polarizing accessory system for use with a microscope. The microscope comprises an optical tube having a eye-piece lens and an objective lens, a stage having an aperture therein, and a light...
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5751475 |
Phase contrast microscope
A phase contrast microscope including an illuminating optical system, a ring slit arranged at a pupil of the illuminating optical system, an imaging optical system, and a phase plate arranged at a...
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5731894 |
Multi-purpose microscope objective
A multi-purpose objective for use in a compound microscope wherein the microscope has an eyepiece and a multi-purpose processing element in the back focal plane or Fourier plane of the objective...
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5701198 |
Confocal incident light microscope
The invention is directed to a confocal incident light microscope for viewing an object. The microscope includes: an illuminating device for transmitting an illuminating beam along an illuminating...
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5659420 |
Confocal optical apparatus
A confocal optical apparatus comprising a light source, a first aperture portion for passing light emitted from the light source and obtaining a point source, an objective lens for causing the...
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5638206 |
Confocal optical microscope and length measuring device using this microscope
A first a confocal optical microscope in which a good image with high contrast can be observed with which a bright image can be observed over a long time interval. The confocal optical microscope...
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5617500 |
System for detecting an optical information and scanning microscope system
This laser scanning microscope has a second light source for emitting second light into one of branch channel waveguides, and a third photodetector for detecting a light intensity distribution...
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5572359 |
Differential interference microscope apparatus and an observing method using the same apparatus
A differential interference microscope which includes a light source, a condenser optical system for condensing beams of light from the light source and illuminating an object with the beams of...
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5559630 |
Polarized light microscopy
In the establishment of interference colors in weakly birefringent materials within living organisms, in fixed tissues or in preparations of liquid crystals, a compensating birefringent plate is...
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