Patent ID: 7367672

Claim:
An apparatus for observing an eye of an examinee by imaging the eye, comprising: an irradiation optical system including a laser source which emits a laser beam and a scanning unit which two-dimensionally scans the beam onto an objective part of the examinee's eye to be observed, the irradiation optical system being adapted to irradiate the beam to the objective part; an imaging optical system including a photo-receiving element which receives the beam reflected by the objective part; a monitor; and a display control part which produces an image of the objective part based on an output signal from the photo-receiving element, and causes the monitor to display the image; wherein the imaging optical system includes a wavefront detector which receives the beam reflected by the objective part to detect wavefront aberration thereof and a wavefront compensator adapted to compensate the wavefront aberration based on a detection result of the wavefront detector, the wavefront compensator being placed within an optical path of the imaging optical system excepting a common optical path with the irradiation optical system.