FLEXIBLE NON-LINEAR LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE FOR NON-INVASIVE 3D DETECTION Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G02B21/00 

FIELD: instrumentation.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a non-linear laser scanning microscope for flexible non-invasive detection, in particular, on human and animal tissues as well as in non-living matter. The measuring head (4) is flexibly connected (via transmitting optics (3)) to at least one light source (1) freely positioned in the space. For orientation of the excitation beam (11) at least one controllable flap-down mirror (2) is positioned so that to orient the excitation beam (11) through the transmitting optics (3) in any position of the measuring head (4) concentrically to the optical element (44) of the measuring head (4) with a restricted aperture. The testing beam (43) drawn from the excitation beam (11) is positioned on the photodetector (5) in a position conjugated with the target position (41) of the excitation beam (11) controlled for the medium orientation of the testing beam (43). The control unit (6) controls the flap-down mirror (2) with the excitation beam (11) direction stabilisation implemented depending on the determined deviation.

EFFECT: increased resolution and enhanced highlighting efficiency.

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