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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2013
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Iketaki, Tokyo, JP;
Nandor Bokor, Budapest, HU;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A super-resolution microscope comprises: an illumination optical system that condenses a first illumination light beam for exciting the molecule from a stable state to a first quantum state and a second illumination light beam for further transitioning the molecule onto a sample in a manner that the first and the second illumination light beams are partially overlapped; a scanning section that scans the sample by relatively displacing the first and the second illumination light beams and the sample; a detection section that detects an optical response signal emitted from the sample; and a phase plate that is arranged in the illumination optical system and has M surface areas for modulating the phase of the second illumination light beam, wherein the phase plate comprises a monolayer optical thin film with M surface areas formed on an optical substrate with a thickness that satisfies the predetermined conditional expression.