Patent ID: 7275829

Claim:
An ophthalmic laser irradiation apparatus comprising: an irradiation optical system for irradiating a laser beam onto a patient's eye; an illumination unit, including an illumination light source, in which light intensity of visible illumination light onto the eye is adjustable; a detection unit which detects at least one of a pupil area and a pupil diameter of the eye; a setting unit which sets a reference value of at least one of the pupil area and the pupil diameter, and a permissible range of the reference value; and an informing unit which informs at least one of a detection value of the detection unit with the set reference value and a comparison result between the detection value and the set reference value, wherein the informing unit informs at least one of that the detection value falls within the set permissible range, and that the detection value does not fall within the set permissible range.