Contact focusing multimodal microprobes for ultraprecise laser tissue surgery

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3440-3448

  Darafsheh, Arash ^a   Fardad, Amir ^b   Fried, Nathaniel M ^a   Antoszyk, Andrew N ^c   Ying, Howard S ^d   Astratov, Vasily N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b PhotonTech LLC   (United States)

^c Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and Throat Associates   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COAGULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONTACT MODES; DEVICE DESIGN; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; FOCUSED BEAMS; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MICRO-PROBES; MULTI-MODAL; PEAK INTENSITY; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

LASER SURGERY;

MICROSPHERE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY;

LASER THERAPY; MICROSPHERES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951602673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003440     Document Type: Article

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