Laser-induced optical breakdown on hard and soft tissues and its dependence on the pulse duration: Experiment and model

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1717-1722

  Loesel, Frieder H ^a,b,c,d   Niemz, Markolf H ^a,e,f   Bille, Josef F ^a,b,e,g   Juhasz, Tibor ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ger National Scholarship Foundation

^d German Physical Society

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f German Physical Society

^g UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DYE LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; TISSUE;

BOVINE BRAIN TISSUES; HUMAN CORNEAL TISSUES; HUMAN ENAMEL; LASER INDUCED OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; PULSE DURATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0030269815     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.538774     Document Type: Article

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