Patent ID: 8920408

Claim:
An ophthalmological apparatus, comprising: a light source, and a hand-held appliance for manual application onto an eye, the hand-held appliance comprising: fastening means for fixing the hand-held appliance to the eye, a light projector, optically connected to the light source, for the focussed projection of light pulses for punctiform tissue breakdown at a focal point in the interior of the eye tissue, and a movement driver for moving the light projector such that the focal point of the punctiform tissue breakdown is moved and cuts are produced from moving the focal point of the punctiform tissue breakdown by the movement driver, wherein the movement driver and the light projector are set up and coupled such that the light projector can be moved equidistantly from a movement surface, and wherein the ophthalmological apparatus further comprises a contact body which can be mounted onto the eye and is transparent at least at some points and is designed and arranged such that it places equidistantly from the movement surface an area of the eye which is contacted in the mounted state.