Microscope objective lens, microscope optical system, and microscope device
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorHidetsugu Takagi
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Abstract
A microscope objective lens (OL) includes a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having a concave surface facing the image side, and a third lens group (G3) having a concave surface facing the object side, which are arranged in order from the object side along an optical axis. The first lens group (G1) includes one lens component having positive refractive power, the third lens group (G3) includes three or more lenses including two negative lenses and one positive lens, and at least one predetermined negative lens in the two negative lenses satisfies the conditional expression “vdA<40”.
Claims18
A microscope objective lens, consisting of, in order from an object on an optical axis:
- a first lens group having a positive refractive power;
- a second lens group having a concave surface facing an image;
- and a third lens group having a concave surface facing the object,
- wherein the first lens group consists of a lens component having a positive refractive power,
- the third lens group consists of three or more lenses that include two negative lenses and one positive lens,
- at least one predetermined negative lens in the two negative lenses satisfies the following conditional expression,
- vdA<40
- where vdA:
- an Abbe number of the predetermined negative lens of the third lens group, and
- the microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expression,
- 0<θA−(0.6438−0.001682×vdA+0.007)
- where θA:
- a partial dispersion ratio of the predetermined negative lens of the third lens group, defined by the following expression assuming that a refractive index of the
- predetermined negative lens for g-line is ngA, a refractive index of the predetermined negative lens for F-line is nFA, and a refractive index of the predetermined negative lens for C-line is nCA,
- θA=(ngA−nFA)/(nFA−nCA).
A microscope objective lens, consisting of, in order from an object on an optical axis:
- a first lens group having a positive refractive power;
- a second lens group having a concave surface facing an image;
- and a third lens group having a concave surface facing the object,
- wherein the first lens group consists of a lens component having a positive refractive power, and
- the second lens group includes a predetermined positive lens which satisfies the following conditional expressions,
- vd2P<35
- 0<θ2P−(0.6438−0.001682×vd2P+0.008)
- where vd2P:
- an Abbe number of the predetermined positive lens of the second lens group, and
- θ2P:
- a partial dispersion ratio of the predetermined positive lens of the second lens group, defined by the following expression assuming that a refractive index of the predetermined positive lens for g-line is ng2P, a refractive index of the predetermined positive lens for F-line is nF2P, and a refractive index of the predetermined positive lens for C-line is nC2P,
- θ2P=(ng2P−nF2P)/(nF2P−nC2P).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.