Flexible beam guiding in a microsurgical UV laser scalpel

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4616, Issue , 2002, Pages 199-206

  Hillrichs, Georg ^a   Dietz, Hartmut ^a   Rütting, Martin ^a   Schastak, Stanislav ^b   Wiedemann, Peter ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^c   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^c   Klein, Karl Friedrich ^d  

^a University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d University of Applied Sciences in Friedberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excimer laser; Flexible beam guiding; Hollow core waveguide; Laser microsurgery; Laser scalpel; UV optical fiber

Indexed keywords

EXCIMER LASERS; LASER SURGERY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LASER SCALPELS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0036401256     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463813     Document Type: Article

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