Surface ablation of corneal stroma with few-cycle laser pulses at 800 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 230-240

  Hoffart, L ^a   Lassonde, P ^b   Legare F ^b   Vidal, F ^b   Sanner, N ^c   Uteza O ^c   Sentis, M ^c   Kieffer, J C ^b   Brunette, I ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALGEBRA; LASER PULSES; SILICA;

CORNEAL STROMA; CRATER DIAMETER; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FLUENCES; GAUSSIANS; INTENSITY PROFILES; LASER FLUENCES; LASER PULSE DURATION; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL CYCLES; PULSE DURATIONS; SURFACE ABLATION; THEORETICAL MODELS;

FUSED SILICA;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SILICON DIOXIDE; SWINE;

EID: 78651377396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000230     Document Type: Article

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