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Advantages of the 2.94-μm wavelength for medical laser applications

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Abstract

Currently available laser surgery systems have less than ideal characteristics. For example, the endoscopically deliverable argon and Nd:YAG lasers show charring and jagged cutting which limits their use in microsurgery and angioplasty. The CO2 laser shows relatively little charring in the pulsed mode but is not deliverable through flexible fiber optics. The excimer laser, while capable of clean cuts, has possible mutagenic and carcinogenic effects and problems in fiber delivery and adapting to a medical environment.

© 1986 Optical Society of America

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