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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshinori Iketaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/0032 (2013.01); G02B 21/0068 (2013.01); G02B 21/0076 (2013.01);
Abstract
A super-resolution microscope includes a modulation optical element () that is disposed in an illumination optical system along a light path traveled by first illumination light and second illumination light and spatially modulates the second illumination light. In the modulation optical element (), a plurality of optical substrates exhibiting anisotropy in a refractive index distribution are joined in a coplanar manner, and at least two of the optical substrates have a different refractive index with respect to a polarization direction of the second illumination light.