摘要 |
<p>A new scanning optical microscope or mapping system for transmission, reflection and luminescence imaging is disclosed. A transmission arm (650) collects light transmitted through the specimen (142) and injects it back into the optical path of the microscope parallel with and coaxial with the reflected light beam returning from the specimen (142), so that in the scanning beam embodiment, both transmitted and reflected light beams are descanned by the same scan optics on their way back to the same detector. Since light travels around the transmission arm in both directions, this microscope forms images of the specimen from either the top or the bottom and in either reflected light or transmitted light, and all four of these imaging modes can be selected separately. Embodiments for use in fluorescence and photoluminescence imaging are also disclosed.</p> |