Lighting device for a motor vehicle headlight with a first optical component and second optical system

A lighting device for a motor vehicle, the lighting device comprising:

• light sources from which light radiates in operation of the lighting device;
• an optical component that has at least one light entry surface for the light radiating from the light sources as well as at least one light exit surface for the light that has entered through the at least one light entry surface;
• and
• a secondary optical system that has at least one light entry surface for the light radiating from the at least one light exit surface of the optical component as well as at least one light exit surface for the light that has entered through the at least one light entry surface, the light that has exited from the at least one light exit surface of the secondary optical system producing a light distribution outside the motor vehicle in operation of the lighting device,
• wherein the lighting device is designed such that a vertical light/dark boundary is produced in the light distribution by switching the lighting device from a first state in which all of the light sources emit light into a second state in which a plurality of the light sources emit light and one or more of the light sources do not emit light,
• wherein the light sources are arranged side by side in a first direction,
• wherein on a light entry side of the optical component, the optical component has a recess that divides the light entry side of the optical component into a first light entry portion and a second light entry portion, such that, with respect to the first direction, the first light entry portion is spaced apart from the second light entry portion by the recess, and
• wherein the light sources are arranged in a first group and a second group of light sources with the first group of light sources being associated with the first light entry portion of the optical component and the second group of light sources being associated with the second light entry portion of the optical component, such that the first group of light sources is spaced apart from the second group of light sources in the first direction.