Superresolving microscope with fast quasi-confocal detection and increased axial resolving power

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Microscope with a linear illumination allows a fast image capture. The resolving power can be increased both transversely to the line by way of what is known as rescanning downstream of the confocal stop and along the line by way of illumination that is laterally structured also in this direction. Moreover, an increase in the resolving power in the direction of the optical axis should be made possible. To this end, the illumination beam path contains a beam shaper for creating a distribution of the illumination light in the sample space, said distribution being intensity-modulated along the optical axis and having a plurality of at least local intensity maxima along the optical axis.