Plasma mediated ablation of biological tissues with nanosecond-to-femtosecond laser pulses: Relative role of linear and nonlinear absorption

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 801-809

  Oraevsky, Alexander A ^b,d,e   Da Silva, Luiz B ^a,c   Rubenchik, Alexander M ^c   Feit, Michael D ^c   Glinsky, M E ^c   Perry, Michael D ^c   Mammini, Beth M ^c,e,f,g   Small IV, Ward ^c,e,g,h   Stuart, Brent C ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

^e OSA ^*

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TISSUE;

AVALANCHE IONIZATION; COLLAGEN GELS; PLASMA MEDIATED ABLATION; PLASMA OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; PORCINE CORNEA; THEORY OF OPTICAL BREAKDOWN;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

EID: 0030348537     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577302     Document Type: Article

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