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Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Leica Microsystems Cms Gmbh, Wetzlar, DE;

Inventors:

Werner Knebel, Kronau, DE;

Florian Fahrbach, Mannheim, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/06 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 27/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/0032 (2013.01); G02B 21/0056 (2013.01); G02B 21/0076 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01); G02B 27/58 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for the examination of a sample includes illuminating the sample in a sample plane along a sample line with an illuminating light beam. The sample is acted upon by a depletion or switching light beam, which overlaps in the sample plane in an overlap region with the illuminating light beam. Part of fluorescent light emanating from the sample plane is detected as detection light originating from a first subregion of the overlap region, in which the probability of an interaction of the sample molecules with the depletion or switching light beam is greater than 90%, and/or originating from a second subregion which is at least partially surrounded by the first sub-region and/or in which the depletion or switching light beam has a zero point, while at the same time the fluorescent light originating from outside the first subregion and the second subregion is suppressed and not detected.


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