Nikon Corporation

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Nakayama

Yumiko Ouchi

Chikao Ikenaga

Chiaki Hatsuta

Kazunari Ikeda

Kazuhiro Takasago

Utako Oouchi

Hisao Osawa

Fumio Suzuki

Ken Kimura

Masahiro Mizuta

Masanori Ueno

Toshinaru Kayahara

Norio Miyake

Yasuhiro Matsukawa

Yoshio Okabe

Kouji Doi

Hiroshi Masuda

Toshinari Kayahara

An ophthalmic optical system for observing an subject eye, including: an objective optical system that forms a pupil that has a conjugate relationship with a pupil of the subject eye, wherein, given that a distance from a pupil position that has a conjugate relationship with the pupil of the subject eye to the pupil of the subject eye is L, and a sum of central thicknesses of lenses included in the objective optical system is D, a conditional expression expressed by0.1≤≤0.25is satisfied.

Ophthalmic optical system and ophthalmic device

A microscope including an illumination optical system having an objective lens and a fly-eye lens, where: the fly-eye lens having a plurality of lens elements; in the illumination optical system, images of the plurality of lens elements are projected on a pupil of the objective lens; and the number (n) of the images of the lens elements projected inside the pupil of the objective lens is more than the number (n) of the images of the lens elements projected on an outer perimeter of the pupil of the objective lens. In the above observation optical system, a first objective lens having a first pupil diameter and a second objective lens having a pupil diameter larger than the first pupil diameter are switchable, and a number nmay be greater than a number nwith respect to the first objective lens.

Microscope including an illumination optical system having a plurality of lens elements

A structured illuminating apparatus includes a branching unit branching an exit light flux from a light source into at least two branched light fluxes, an illuminating optical system making the two branched light fluxes to be respectively collected at mutually different positions on a pupil plane of an objective lens and making the two branched light fluxes to be interfered with each other to illuminate a specimen with an interference fringe of the two branched light fluxes, and an adjusting unit adjusting a height from an optical axis of the illuminating optical system to two collecting points formed on the pupil plane of the objective lens by the two branched light fluxes.

Structured illuminating apparatus, structured illuminating microscopy apparatus, and structured illuminating method

The present invention provides a metal sheet, on a first surface of which a resist pattern having a narrow width can be stably provided. This manufacturing method for a metal sheet includes a preparation step of preparing a sheet material comprising an iron alloy that contains nickel. When a composition analysis of the first surface of the metal sheet obtained from the sheet material is performed using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio A1/A2 obtained by the result of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy does not exceed 0.4, where A1 is the sum of the peak area value of nickel oxide and the peak area value of nickel hydroxide, and A2 is the sum of the peak area value of iron oxide and the peak area value of iron hydroxide.

Manufacturing method for deposition mask, metal plate used for producing deposition mask, and manufacturing method for said metal sheet

A structured illumination device includes: a diffraction unit that diffracts light beams of a plurality of wavelengths that are emitted simultaneously or sequentially by a light source into a plurality of diffracted beams; and an optical system that forms interference fringes on a surface of a sample using the plurality of diffracted beams diffracted by the diffraction unit, the optical system including a first optical system and a second optical system that focuses the plurality of diffracted beams at positions on or near a pupil plane of the first optical system, and a magnification characteristic dY(&#x3bb;) of the second optical system satisfying the condition of (fo&#xb7;nw&#x2212;af&#x3bb;/P)&#x2266;dY(&#x3bb;)&#x2266;(fo&#xb7;NA&#x2212;af&#x3bb;/P), where a=1 (for M=1, 2) or a=2 (for M=3).

Structured illumination device and structured illumination microscope device

There is provided a microscope apparatus including: a plurality of objective lenses having different magnifications; an imaging system that receives light, which is generated from a sample and emitted from the objective lens when excitation light is emitted to a sample including a fluorescent material that is activated when irradiated with activation light having a predetermined wavelength and fluoresces to be inactivated when irradiated with excitation light having a different wavelength from the activation light in the activation state and that images the light in a state where an astigmatic difference is given to the image of the sample; and an imaging device that captures the image of the sample from the imaging system. The imaging system includes an astigmatic difference changing device that changes the astigmatic difference according to the depth of focus of the objective lens.

Microscope apparatus with an imaging system including an astigmatic difference changing device

A variable power optical system used in a parallel stereoscopic microscope apparatus includes a plurality of optical paths in which optical axes are arranged substantially parallel, a plurality of lens groups that change the magnification of a diameter of a luminous flux entering substantially parallel to each of the optical paths to eject the luminous flux as substantially parallel luminous fluxes, and at least two lens groups move along the optical axis in each optical path according to the change in the magnification. At least two lens groups of at least one optical path among the plurality of optical paths move in a direction including a component perpendicular to the optical axis according to the change in the magnification at at least part of a section where the magnification is changed from a high-power end state to a low-power end.

Imaging optical system, microscope apparatus including the imaging optical system, and stereoscopic microscope apparatus

A diffraction grating produces first diffraction light in a symmetrical direction with respect to the 0-th diffraction light and the optical axis. Each light flux forms two flux interference patterns on a sample surface through first and second objective lenses. A sample is illuminated by spatially modulated illumination light. Fluorescence is generated on the sample by structured illumination light as excitation light. The fluorescence caught by the first objective lens forms a modulated image of the sample on a sample conjugate surface through an objective optical system including the first and second objective lenses. The modulated image is further modulated through the diffractive grating. Fluorescence from the further modulated image passes through a lens and a dichroic mirror, enters into a single light path of an observation optical system, passes through a fluorescent filter, and forms an enlarged image of the further modulated image through a lens.

Microscope device and image processing method

A variable power relay optical system comprising: a variable power lens performing zooming a secondary image based on light from a primary image; and a rear group forming the secondary image based on the light passing through the variable power lens; the variable power lens consisting of, in order from the primary image side, a first group having positive power, a second group having negative power, a third group having positive power, and a fourth group having positive power, upon zooming from a high magnification end to a low magnification end, the fourth group being moved to the secondary image side, and a distance between the first group and the second group increasing, positions of the primary image and the secondary image, an entrance pupil of the variable power relay optical system, a pupil of the variable power lens, and an exit pupil of the variable power relay optical system being substantially kept constant, and the pupil of the variable power lens being disposed to the secondary image side of the last surface of the variable power lens.

Variable power relay optical system and microscope equipped therewith

An image forming lens has a configuration that an image forming lens IL for receiving parallel beams of light emitted from an observation target object and emerging from an infinity-designed objective lens of a microscope and forming an image of the observation target object in a predetermined position, is constructed of, in order from an object side, a first lens group Ghaving positive refractive power and a second lens group Ghaving negative refractive power, and the first lens group is constructed of a positive lens (e.g., a biconvex lens L) and a negative lens (e.g., a negative meniscus lens L). Glass materials of the positive lens and the negative lens configuring the first lens group Gsatisfy conditions of predetermined &#x3bd;dht and partial dispersion ratio Pht, then a transmittance, with respect to the light having a wavelength of 340 nm, of each of the glass materials of all the lenses is equal to or larger than 50% per glass thickness of 10 mm, and the transmittance with respect to the light having the wavelength of 360 nm is equal to or larger than 80% per glass thickness of 10 mm.

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