Patent ID: 8199327

Claim:
A system for optical coherence tomography comprising: an interferometer which has a beam splitter and a reflector, light injected into the interferometer being split by the beam splitter into a partial beam extending in the direction of the reflector and into a partial beam extending in the direction of the specimen, the partial beams being reflected by the reflector and by the specimen, and the reflected partial beams being superposed in the beam splitter to a light bundle, a detector with a first number of detector elements for collecting light, and an optical fibre with a second number of individual fibres for transmitting the light of the light bundle from the interferometer to the detector which collects light passing out of the optical fibre, wherein the detector elements have a first centre-centre distance and the individual fibres a second centre-centre distance, the first centre-centre distance between the detector elements being greater than the second centre-centre distance between the individual fibres, and wherein the second centre-centre distance between the individual fibres being maximum a quarter of the length of a period between two consecutive interference minima or interference maxima of interference patterns which are recorded by the detector.