Intratissue surgery with 80 MHz nanojoule femtosecond laser pulses in the near infrared

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 171-176

  König, Karsten ^a   Krauss, Oliver ^a   Riemann, Iris ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; INTRAOCULAR REFRACTIVE SURGERY; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); PHOTODISRUPTION;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0001485803     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.10.000171     Document Type: Article

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