Side-firing sealing caps for hollow optical fibers

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 792-797

  Watanabe, Tomonori ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endoscopes; Er:YAG laser; Infrared fibers; Infrared lasers; Oto rhino laryngology; Urology

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HOLLOW FIBER; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FIBER OPTICS; LASER SURGERY; LASER THERAPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33749471532     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20386     Document Type: Article

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