High power diode laser sources are increasingly being used for surgical procedures. Sources at 810 nm wavelength are commercially available; these are, however, only applicable to pigmented tissues (blood and melanin), or using a mediating carbon film in contact mode. There is an increasing interest in development of suitable sources for use with non-pigmented tissue such as bone, fatty tissues (e.g. brain), cartilage, sclera, stones etc. Diode pumped erbium-ytterbium (Er-Yb) fibre laser sources at /spl sim/1540 nm are particularly attractive because of the emission wavelength's proximity to the 2/sup nd/ overtone of water absorption at /spl sim/1470 nm.


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    Title :

    High power 1540 nm fibre lasers for surgical applications


    Contributors:
    Nayar, B.K. (author) / Lewandowski, J.J. (author) / Wilson, F.J. (author) / Chavez, J.A. (author) / Grudinin, A.B. (author) / Minelly, J.D. (author) / Kennedy, G. (author) / Raven, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Size :

    159234 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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