Light-Field Microscope

Light-field microscope comprising:

• a light source for providing illumination light,
• an illumination beam path for guiding the illumination light into a sample region,
• a two-dimensionally spatially resolving detector for detecting detection light coming from a sample in the sample region,
• a detection beam path with a microscope objective and a multi-lens array for guiding the detection light to the detector,
• a stop device for preventing crosstalk between detection paths belonging to different lenses of the multi-lens array, and
• a control unit for evaluating measurement data from the detector,
• wherein
• each lens of the multi-lens array belongs to exactly one of at least two lens groups,
• each lens group has at least three lenses,
• detector-side focal points of lenses of the same lens group lie at the same position in an axial direction relative to a sensor surface of the detector at the location of the relevant lens,
• detector-side focal points of lenses from different lens groups lie at different positions in the axial direction relative to the sensor surface of the detector at the location of the relevant lens, and
• the lenses from each lens group are arranged distributed over a surface of the multi-lens array.