Practical Optics

1.2. Thin Lenses Layout 15

Figure 1.16 Microscope with a trinocular assembly.

Figure 1.17 Layout of a microscope with ICS optics.

object from two different directions. Each image is transferred through a separate

branch (a pair of lenses L

1

and L

2

).

The architecture shown in Fig. 1.16 is actually the combination of the two

layouts presented in Fig. 1.15 and its output assembly is called trinocular – it

creates images on the area sensor as well as in the image plane of both eyepieces.

The beam splitter, BS, turns the optical axis in the direction of the relay lens L

3

.

In the last few years microscopes have been designed as infinity color-corrected

systems ...