Illumination system and method for a high definition 3-D light microscope
Unimat (USA) Corporation, formerly United Holdings, Inc.
An illumination system and method for providing real-time 3-D viewing and increased resolution, sharpness, depth of field, and perception of depth for a transmitted light microscope including a condenser lens having an optical axis, objective lens having an optical axis, and an eye piece, wherein a light beam path shift device enables two or more separate light beams to be directed onto the condenser along paths that are not coincident with the condenser lens optical axis and that produce beam exit paths from the condenser lens which are at maximum oblique angles relative to the objective lens axis which are within the objective lens aperture.
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An illumination system for a transmitted light microscope including a condenser lens means having an optical axis, and an objective lens means having an optical axis, comprising in combination: light beam source means for providing two independent light beams along different source beam paths which are non-coincident with the optical axis of the condenser lens means; light beam shift means operable to shift the path of a source means light beam and redirect it along an incident path that passes…
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This application is a continuation-in-part of my pending application Ser. No. 07/688,170 filed Apr. 19, 1991.