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.
Claims21
An optical microscope, comprising:
- a first stage for supporting a sample;
- 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;
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- an illumination stage comprising a light source, the illumination stage engaged with the first stage and second stage, the illumination stage movable with the second stage, the light source positioned adjacent to the first stage to facilitate viewing the sample using the optic, wherein the optical microscope is manufactured from a flat material that includes the first stage and second stage.
The optical microscope of claim 12, wherein the optical alignment has an accuracy of about 10 microns or less.
The optical microscope of claim 19, wherein the microscope has a magnification of greater than about 300×.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.