Propagation effects in the assessment of laser damage thresholds to the eye and skin

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6435, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Thomas, Robert J ^c   Vincelette, Rebecca L ^a   Clark III, C D ^b   Stolarski, Jacob ^a   Irvin, Lance J ^c   Buffington, Gavin D ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam propagation; Computational physics; Heat transfer; Laser damage; Laser tissue interaction

Indexed keywords

LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SKIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BEAM PROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER-TISSUE INTERACTION;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247390137     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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