US Patent 6924490 Microscope system

A microscope system is provided which includes a single microscope. The system includes a laser source, a light path splitting unit which splits a light path of a laser beam from the laser source into at least two split light paths, a plurality of optical fibers upon which laser beams on the light paths split by the light path splitting unit are incident, and a plurality of different microscope optical systems which use the respective laser beams passed through the plurality of optical fibers.