Optical coherence tomograph for examining an eye (3) which features: - a lighting device (4, 5) for providing source
radiation, - an illumination and measurement beam path (7) comprising a splitting element (6) for splitting the source
radiation into illumination
radiation (B) and reference radiation (R), with the illumination radiation (B) illuminating an illumination field in the eye (3) and collecting backscattered illumination radiation in the eye (3) as measurement radiation (M), wherein the illumination and measurement beam path (7) comprises a
scanner (13) for adjusting the
lateral position of the illumination field in the eye (3) and a front optic (12), - a
reference beam path (8) which provides for the reference radiation (R) an
optical path length (21) corresponding to an
optical path length from the splitting element (6) to the illumination field and back to a superposition point (71), - a detection beam path (14, 15, 17) which receives the measuring radiation (M) from the illumination and measuring beam path (7) and the reference radiation (R) from the
reference beam path (8) and superimposes them at the superposition point (71) and directs them onto a
detector (19), - the illumination and measuring beam path (7) further exhibits - a
beam splitter (11) for separating the measuring radiation (M) collected by the eye (3) from the illumination radiation (B) directed to the eye (3), wherein the
beam splitter (11) directs the separated measuring radiation (M) to the detection beam path (14, 15, 17), and - a light splitting element (32, 34) that splits the illumination radiation (B) into spots in order to illuminate the
retina (2) with a multi-spot pattern, characterized in that - the lighting device (4, 5) is tunable with respect to the
wavelength of the source radiation, - the
detector is an
area detector (19), - the detection beam path further - an optical element (14) acting only on the measuring radiation (M), which interacts with the front
optics (12) and adjusts the
numerical aperture with which measuring radiation (M) is collected in the eye (3), and - an aperture (15) which is arranged in front of the
area detector (19), in or near an
intermediate image plane and which defines the size of an
object field from which the measuring radiation (M) reaches the
area detector (19), and - wherein the aperture prior to the area
detector is designed as a first multi-hole aperture (15) and a first multi-
lens array (36) is arranged between this multi-hole aperture and the area detector (19), which focuses the radiation emanating from each hole of the first multi-hole aperture (15, 15a, 15b) onto a pixel area of the area detector (19) which has a spatial resolution of 4 to 100 pixels in one direction, preferably as a 2D pixel area with 5 to 50 pixels or 5 to 40 pixels per direction.