Self-cleaning effect of sealing caps for infrared hollow fiber delivering pulsed Er: YAG laser light

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-110

  Shi, Yi Wei ^a   Iwai, Katsumasa ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a   Jelinkova, Helena ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Er:YAG laser; Hollow fiber; Sealing cap; Self cleaning; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; TISSUE; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

SEALING CAPS; SELF-CLEANING EFFECTS; SOFT TISSUES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 24944590759     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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