MICROSCOPE

Abstract

The invention relates to a microscope comprising an imaging objective (4) for imaging a sample (3) onto a detector and means for illuminating the sample (3) with a light sheet (7) in the focal plane of the imaging objective (4), comprising a coherent light-emitting illumination source (1). In such a microscope, the illumination means comprise a Bessel optic which generates at least two plane waves (6) from the light beam (5) and defines propagation directions for the plane waves (6), wherein the propagation direction of each of the plane waves (6) forms an acute angle with the focal plane, the magnitude of which is the same for each of the plane waves (6), so that the plane waves (6) constructively interfere in the focal plane, thereby generating a light sheet (7).