CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a confocal microscope unit applicable to an optional CCD camera, in which a banding noise is eliminated by completely synchronizing the scanning period of a Nipkow disk and the image capture period of the camera. SOLUTION: The confocal microscope unit comprises a microscope unit and a confocal scanner unit having the Nipkow disk which rotates at a predetermined scanning period, and picks up a confocal image with the camera equipped with a frame transfer CCD element, the confocal image being obtained by focusing returning light of measurement light with which a specimen is irradiated, wherein a disk scanning period generation means is provided which generates the scanning period of the Nipkow disk having a period (T2=T1/n) which is the 1/n (integer n≥1) of the exposure time on the basis of the set exposure time (T1) of the CCD element. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT