Laser-induced breakdown in the eye at pulse durations from 80 ns to 100 fs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3255, Issue , 1998, Pages 34-49

  Vogel, Alfred ^a   Noack, Joachim ^a   Nahen, Kester ^a   Theisen, Dirk ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^a   Hammer, Daniel X ^a   Noojin, Gary D ^a   Rockwell, Benjamin A ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakdown thresholds; Cavitation; Intraocular microsurgery; Moving breakdown; Optical breakdown; Plasma formation; Plasma transmission; Self focusing; Shock waves; Ultrashort laser pulses

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CAVITATION; DESORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PLASMAS; SHOCK WAVES; SURGERY;

LASER PULSE DURATION; LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN (LIB); OPTICAL BREAKDOWN;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0032225346     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.308220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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