Transmission characteristics of sealed hollow waveguides for er: YAG laser radiation and their application in the ophthalmology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4616, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-142

  Jelínková, Helena ^a   Nĕmec, Michal ^a   Šulc, Jan ^a   Pašta, Jiří ^b   Iwai, Katsumasa ^c   Abe, Yukio ^c   Shi, Yi Wei ^c   Matsuura, Yuji ^c   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Er:YAG; Ophthalmology; Sealed waveguide

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; IRRADIATION; LASER ABLATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MELTING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TISSUE;

SEALED HOLLOW GLASS WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036399896     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463806     Document Type: Article

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