OPTICAL DEVICE FOR PRODUCING LINES OF LIGHT FROM QUASI-POINT SOURCES OF LIGHT BY MEANS OF SLIT-LIKE CAVITIES

An optical device is disclosed for producing light lines. The optical device comprises at least one quasi point-like light source. The optical device further comprises a transparent, light guiding body configured such that light from the at least one quasi point-like light source is led through the body. The light from the at least one quasi point light source is beamed in at a first front end of the body, and is beamed out again essentially at an opposite, second front end of the body. Slot-like cavities provided in the body reform the beamed-in light in a manner such that the body acts as a combination of a reflector with lens optics and a light scatterer.