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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
Applicant:
Johann Engelhardt, Bad Schönborn, DE;
Inventor:
Johann Engelhardt, Bad Schönborn, DE;
Assignee:
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des Offentlichen Rechts, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to an optical scanning device that comprises a light source to emit a beam of light, and a beam splitter to split that beam into several beamlets, and further a first objective lens to direct said beamlets onto a focal plane wherein each of said beamlets impinges on the focal plane spacially separated from each other, wherein the beam splitter comprises several birefringent elements for splitting said beam, preferably a stack of Wollaston prisms.