Self-focusing and spherical aberrations in corneal tissue during photodisruption by femtosecond laser

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Nuzzo, Valeria ^a,c   Savoldelli, Michèle ^b   Legeais, Jean Marc ^b   Plamann, Karsten ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Femtosecond laser; Laser tissue interaction; Self focusing; Spherical aberrations; Tissue surgery

Indexed keywords

CORNEA; CORNEAL GRAFTING; CORNEAL TISSUES; CUTTING EFFICIENCY; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FOCAL REGIONS; INTERACTION PROCESS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR SELF-FOCUSING; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PHOTODISRUPTION; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SELF-FOCUSING; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; TISSUE DAMAGE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FOCUSING; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPHERES; TISSUE; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER SURGERY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CORNEA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78449248993     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3455507     Document Type: Article

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