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Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2014
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hisao Kitagawa, Hino, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/00 (2006.01); G02B 21/16 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/002 (2013.01); G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); G02B 21/16 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6419 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image having an expected superresolution effect is created in a straightforward manner and with superior precision. The invention provides a scanning laser microscope including a scanner that scans a laser beam emitted from an Ar laser device on a specimen; an objective lens that radiates the laser beam scanned by the scanner onto the specimen and that collects return light coming from the specimen; a detector array that has a plurality of minute detector elements arrayed at a position that is optically conjugate with the focal position of the objective lens; and a superresolution calculating portion that calculates a center position of a spot of the return light that is incident on the detector array on the basis of a light intensity signal output from each of the minute detector elements in the detector array.


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