Abstract

Any application of lasers in medicine is based on a compromise between the efficiency with which the laser radiation interacts with biological tissue and the concomitant collateral effects. Correspondingly, parameters minimizing undesirable damage to tissue must be determined. The development of a new generation of solid-state lasers tunable over a wide range in the mid-IR range of the spectrum with parametric generation of light and a combination of high radiation intensity and relatively low pulse energy at high repetition frequency opens up new possibilities for less-invasive, high-precision, laser surgery, first and foremost, in ophthamology and neuro- and cardiosurgery.

© 2010 Optical Society of America

Electrooptically Q-switched mid-infrared Er:YAG laser for medical applications

A. Zajac, M. Skorczakowski, J. Swiderski, and P. Nyga
Opt. Express 12(21) 5125-5130 (2004)

Mid-infrared Lasers for Medical Applications: introduction to the feature issue

Fatima Toor, Stuart Jackson, Xiaoming Shang, Shamsul Arafin, and Haining Yang
Biomed. Opt. Express 9(12) 6255-6257 (2018)

Laser heating of dielectric particles for medical and biological applications

Michael I. Tribelsky and Yasuhide Fukumoto
Biomed. Opt. Express 7(7) 2781-2788 (2016)

Terahertz three-dimensional monitoring of nanoparticle-assisted laser tissue soldering

Junliang Dong, Holger Breitenborn, Riccardo Piccoli, Lucas V. Besteiro, Pei You, Diego Caraffini, Zhiming M. Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, Rafik Naccache, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Luca Razzari, and Roberto Morandotti
Biomed. Opt. Express 11(4) 2254-2267 (2020)

Interplay of wavelength, fluence and spot-size in free-electron laser ablation of cornea

M. Shane Hutson, Borislav Ivanov, Aroshan Jayasinghe, Gilma Adunas, Yaowu Xiao, Mingsheng Guo, and John Kozub
Opt. Express 17(12) 9840-9850 (2009)