Laser ablation of dental tissues with picosecond pulses of 1.06-μm radiation transmitted through a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2251-2256

  Konorov, Stanislav O ^a   Mitrokhin, Vladimir P ^a   Fedotov, Andrei B ^a   Sidorov Biryukov, Dmitrii A ^a   Beloglazov, Valentin I ^b   Skibina, Nina B ^b   Shcherbakov, Andrei V ^b   Wintner, Ernst ^c   Scalora, Michael ^d   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Inst Glass Struct Technol/Equip   (Russian Federation)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DENTAL TISSUE; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE;

LASER ABLATION;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENAMEL; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TOOTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DENTAL ENAMEL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; TOOTH;

EID: 2342509038     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002251     Document Type: Article

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