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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2009
Ichiro Sase, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Nihoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Ichiro Sase, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Nihoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Providing an imaging apparatus and a microscope capable of taking two-dimensional images of a sample at a plurality of observation positions different in the optical axis direction at the same time. The apparatus includes an image-forming lensthat forms images of a sampleon a plurality of image-forming places; an optical-path-dividing memberthat divides an optical path from the same area in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the sampleso as to form the plurality of image-forming places; and an optical-path-length-changing memberthat is provided on at least one optical path between the plurality of image-forming places and the imaging lens