Abstract: A measurement apparatus (1) for measuring a shape of a surface (2) of a test object (3), in particular an optical surface (2) by interferometry, has: an illumination device (4) with an illumination source (5) for generating an illumination wave (6), an interferometer device (7) with a splitting element (8) for splitting the illumination wave into a test wave (9) directed at the surface (2) and into a reference wave (10), and for combining the returning test wave (9), having interacted with the surface to be measured, with the reference wave (10), a registration device (11) for registering and evaluating an interference pattern to determine a deviation of the measured surface shape from a target shape, and a control device (12) configured to split the surface (2) to be measured into a plurality of individual areas (13) to be measured.

Abstract: A light source for a surgical microscope includes a laser light source, first and second scattering elements defining first and second planes, respectively, and a collector optical device arranged between the first and second scattering elements with a focal length and a focus in the first plane. The laser light is focused on a first beam cross section with a first dimension in the first plane. The scattered beam emanating from the first scattering element is imaged at infinity with a first numerical aperture and produces a second beam cross section with a second dimension in the second plane. The second scattering element emits a beam of illumination light with a second numerical aperture at each point of the beam cross section in the second plane. The illumination light emanating from the second scattering element forms an illuminated field imageable into an object plane by an illumination optical device.

Abstract: A light source for a surgical microscope includes a laser light source, first and second scattering elements defining first and second planes, respectively, and a collector optical device arranged between the first and second scattering elements with a focal length and a focus in the first plane. The laser light is focused on a first beam cross section with a first dimension in the first plane. The scattered beam emanating from the first scattering element is imaged at infinity with a first numerical aperture and produces a second beam cross section with a second dimension in the second plane. The second scattering element emits a beam of illumination light with a second numerical aperture at each point of the beam cross section in the second plane. The illumination light emanating from the second scattering element forms an illuminated field imageable into an object plane by an illumination optical device.

Abstract: A microscope, a reflection correction method for correcting digital microscopic images and an apparatus for producing reflection-corrected, preferably microscopic, images of an object are provided. The apparatus comprises an illumination device with an illumination source and an illumination pupil for illuminating an object; an image recording sensor device that is configured to record a sequence of images of the object that belong to illumination situations, which differ from one another in each case; an image processing device that is configured to produce a reflection-corrected image from the sequence and a sub-aperture modulation device that is configured to produce the illumination situations, which differ from one another, in such a way that, for each image region in an image from the sequence containing a reflected illumination image of at least part of the illumination pupil, there is a corresponding image region without this reflected illumination image.

Abstract: An OCT system comprises an OCT scan module for retinal scanning and an add-on anterior segment scanning module which includes at least one anterior segment scan lens (11) and an add-on fixation target (15) which is used to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while achieving anterior segment scanning. Because the anterior segment scan module added to the exterior of an existing OCT system for retinal scanning has an add-on fixation target (15), it is possible to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while carrying out anterior segment scanning without adjusting the internal beam path of the OCT system, and the OCT system of the present invention can be adapted to patients with only one functioning eye.

Abstract: An OCT system comprises an OCT scan module for retinal scanning and an add-on anterior segment scanning module which includes at least one anterior segment scan lens (11) and an add-on fixation target (15) which is used to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while achieving anterior segment scanning. Because the anterior segment scan module added to the exterior of an existing OCT system for retinal scanning has an add-on fixation target (15), it is possible to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while carrying out anterior segment scanning without adjusting the internal beam path of the OCT system, and the OCT system of the present invention can be adapted to patients with only one functioning eye.