Patent ID: 8228609

Claim:
An apparatus for combining individual light beams into a coaxial light bundle, comprising a body of the apparatus having several coupling-in locations for the light beams, and a coupling-out location for the light bundle, the light wavelengths of the individual light beams differing from each other, dichroic mirrors, which are assigned to the coupling-in locations, each mirror being reflective to the light wavelength of one light beam to be coupled in, adjusting devices structured to facilitate coaxially aligning the individual light beams relative to the beam direction of the light bundle, wherein each of the dichroic mirrors is operably connected to the body with a respective joint for influencing the direction of the light beam that is reflected and thus deflected into the direction of the light bundle, and wherein each of the respective joints comprise elastic hinges and each elastic hinge is coupled with a manipulator for influencing the reflection direction of the reflected light beam.