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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
  • paper CTuS6

Improved fiber-optic laser probe tip for laser surgical applications

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Abstract

For many laser surgical applications involving fiber optics, there is a need for a tip that will produce large, ablated channels when connected to the end of a small diameter, flexible optical fiber. Previous devices to meet this need have included the ball-tip device (Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Santa Clara, Ca.), and the sapphire-tipped device (Surgical Laser Technologies, Malvern, Pa.). There are sufficient difficulties with each of these devices to warrant continued development efforts.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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