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| | United States Patent Application: 0030090792 |
 | | In some conventional devices, long IR pathlengths were used to convey the laser energy between a laser source 10, generally at the back of the microscope, through a fluorescent cavity 12, on to a dichroic mirror 14, and through an objective 16 to the target. |
 | | The exit of the fiber-optic cable 32 acts as a laser source, and the beam passes through a collimating lens 34, which may be, for example, an aspheric or a GRIN lens, and reflects from a dichroic mirror 36 to provide the required almost-parallel beam into the objective 30. |
 | | The dichroic mirror 70 reflects the wavelength.lambda.=1480 nm radiation beam along the optic axis and up into the objective 54, in a direction opposite to the image beam light. |
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