Corneal refractive surgery with femtosecond lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 902-910

  Juhasz, Tibor ^a,b,d,e,f,g   Loesel, Frieder H ^a,c,h,i,j,k   Kurtz, Ron M ^{a,b,d,k,l,m,n,o}   Horvath, Christopher ^a,c,d,p   Bille, Josef F ^c   Mourou, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d IntraLase Corp   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Center for Lasers and Applications

^j Ger National Scholarship Foundation

^k OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^l HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^o American Board of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^p German Physical Society   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION BUBBLES; CORNEAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER INDUCED OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; PHOTODISRUPTION; PHOTODISRUPTIVE ENERGY THRESHOLDS; PLASMA MEDIATED ABLATION; TISSUE ABLATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CAVITATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

EXCIMER LASERS;

EID: 0033310107     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796309     Document Type: Article

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