Title:
レーザ走査顕微鏡
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP5013228
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a laser scanning microscope that can generate an arbitrary control signal without depending on the configuration of the hardware. A memory 64 has a bit width wider than a bit width of drive data based on a drive table for generating a drive signal X for driving a scanner, which is driven by a drive circuit 66X, to scan a designated scanning area at a designated speed, and stores the drive table, and a controller 61 sets a control signal for controlling a predetermined operation in a predetermined mechanism that has a strict time relationship with the scanning based on the drive data, in bits in the bit width of the memory 64X, excluding the bits used by the drive data, and these mechanisms perform the predetermined operation based on the control signal that is read simultaneously when the drive data is read from the memory 64X. The present invention can be applied to a confocal laser scanning microscope that observes a sample by performing scanning with laser light.
Inventors:
Hiroshi Kishimoto
Application Number:
JP2009545454A
Publication Date:
August 29, 2012
Filing Date:
December 12, 2008
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NIKON CORPORATION
International Classes:
G02B21/00
Foreign References:
| EP1863228A1 | 2007-12-05 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshio Inamoto