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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2004
Hiroshi Tanabe, Hamamatsu, JP;
Ikuo Arata, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hirotoshi Terada, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An arrangement, equipped with a holder, which supports a solid immersion lensin the gravity direction with the bottom surface of solid immersion lensbeing protruded downward through an opening, is provided. With this arrangement, when solid immersion lensis set on an observed object, solid immersion lensis put in a state in which it is raised by the observed object and is made free with respect to holder. Also in this state, an excessive pressure will not be applied to the observed object and yet solid immersion lensis put in close contact in conformance with the observed object and temperature drifts at the holderside or the observed object side are cut off from the counterpart side and thus the influences of such temperature drifts are eliminated. A solid immersion lens holder, with which the damaging of the observed object can be eliminated and which enables high-precision observation, is thus provided.