The invention relates to a device for measuring the depth of a
weld seam in real time in the case of the
welding or joining of a workpiece by means of
radiation, comprising: a measurement
light source, the light of which is coupled into a reference arm (18) and into a measurement arm (19) by a
beam splitter (17); a
collimator module (21), which has at least one collimating lens (29) for collimating a measurement
light beam (23), which is fed to the
collimator module (21) by means of an optical
waveguide (20) in the measurement arm (19), and for imaging the measurement
light beam (23) reflected back by a workpiece to be processed onto an outlet / inlet surface (26) of the optical
waveguide (20); an incoupling element (24) for
coupling the measurement
light beam (23) into the beam path of a
processing beam (10); a focusing lens (25) for jointly focusing the measurement light beam (23) and the
processing beam (10) onto the workpiece and for collimating the measurement light beam (23) reflected back; and an evaluating unit (15) for determining the depth of a
weld seam, into which evaluating unit the measurement light reflected back by the workpiece is directed together with the superposed, reflected-back light from the reference arm (18). The
collimator module (21) comprises means for setting the axial focus position of the measurement light beam (23), means for setting the lateral focus position of the measurement light beam (23), and a field lens (28), which is arranged between the outlet / inlet surface (26) of the optical
waveguide (20) and the collimating lens (29) and which defines the beam expansion of the measurement light beam (23) and thus the focus
diameter of the measurement light beam (23).