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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Eiji Yokoi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Eiji Yokoi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/02 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microscope apparatus includes a laser beam source for emitting a laser beam, an objective lens for irradiating a sample with the laser beam, a phase-modulating spatial light modulator placed between the laser beam source and the objective lens at a position optically conjugate with a pupil position of the objective lens, and a beam diameter variable unit placed between the laser beam source and the phase-modulating spatial light modulator for varying a beam diameter of the laser beam incident to the phase-modulating spatial light modulator.