Cornea surgery with nanojoule femtosecond laser pulses

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5688, Issue , 2005, Pages 288-293

  König, Karsten ^a,b,e   Wang, Bagui ^c   Riemann, Iris ^a,b   Kobow, Jens ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d JENLAB GMBH   (Germany)

^e IBMT ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye; Femtosecond lasers; LASIK; Multiphoton; Multiphoton tomography; Nanoprocessing; Refractive surgery; SHG

Indexed keywords

EYE; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASIK; MULTIPHOTON; MULTIPHOTON TOMOGRAPHY; NANOPROCESSING; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SHG;

COLLAGEN; EXCIMER LASERS; IONIZATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMAS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE;

SURGERY;

EID: 21844460245     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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