Optical device
AssigneeThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
InventorsManu Prakash, James Stanley Cybulski, James C. Clements
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Abstract
An optical device, such as a microscope, is disclosed that can be assembled from flat materials. The optical device can be assembled via a series of folds of a flat material. The optical microscope can include a stage for supporting a sample, an optic stage, and a light source. The optic stage can include one or more lenses. The optical microscope can be capable of obtaining simultaneous images from different forms of microscopy. The optical microscope may have bright field and filter field viewing capabilities wherein a user shifts from bright field to filter field by lateral movement of the stage containing a lens and a light source that cooperate to provide either the bright field or the filter field.
Claims52
An optical device, comprising:
- a first stage for supporting a sample;
- and
- a second stage engaged with the first stage and movable relative to the first stage, the second stage including an optic, the optic having a distance of less than about 3 mm from the sample to the opposite side of the optic.
A method for using an optical microscope comprising:
- engaging a first portion of an optical microscope configured to support a sample with a second portion of an optical microscope having a lens;
- placing a sample on the first portion of the optical microscope;
- adjusting the lens by moving the second portion of the optical microscope having the lens relative to the first portion of the optical microscope to focus on the sample;
- and
- viewing the sample.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.