An OCT
system for the
retina (4) comprises: an illumination unit (36) providing SS-OCT source
radiation, an illumination beam path leading to the object (4) and a measurement beam path coming from the object (4) to a
detector (38) having pixels (74), wherein the measurement beam path is coupled out via a splitter element (42), a
filter element (48) following the splitter element (42) which makes the
numerical aperture of the image larger in a first direction (x) than in a second direction (y)
lying transversely thereto, and a
coupling device (52, 66) for
coupling in the reference
radiation (R) in the
pupil and outside the
optical axis (6), so that the reference
radiation (R) is superimposed on the
detector (38) with the measurement radiation (M) at an angle, wherein the control device (58) reads out pixels (74) of the
detector (38) which correspond to a line-shaped area in the
image field (22) correspond,which has a
line length along the first direction (x) and a line height along the second direction (y), and the control device (58) realizes an
image field (22) that is higher than the line height by moving the line-shaped region over the object (2) along the line height, wherein a depth resolution of the generated 3D image is determined by the spectral range and spectral bandwidth of the tuning, and a
lateral resolution of the 3D image is determined by the
numerical aperture in the line direction and by the line height.