would meet the incident light optics 7 from the direction indicated by arrow p1 if prism 6 were removed and then be fed into the microscope beam path via the reflecting mirror 8 the reflecting mirror 8 can be arranged as a partly transparent reflecting mirror and or dichroic reflecting mirror depending on the application the microscope 2 can further comprise a tube optics 9 and an image sensor 10 in the embodiment according to fig1 and 2 an evanescent illumination of the sample 11 is performed with radiation 15 with the wavelengths 450 and 575 nm in such a way that the penetration depth is 93 nm in each case irrespective of the two wavelengths the supplied ray bundle 15 is illustrated in fig1 by an arrow the tip of the arrow lies in a plane 16 and can be the fiber end for example from which the radiation 15 exits the correction optics 3 is arranged in this case in such a way that the plane 16 is a conjugated plane to the exit pupil 14 of objective 4 the position of which is indicated in fig1 by arrow 14 furthermore the correction optics 3 comprises a transverse chromatic aberration which is configured in such a way that in this way the wavelength dependent differences of the penetration depth d fig2 in the evanescent illumination of the sample.