Publications [#245886] of Glenn S. Edwards

Papers Published

1. Edwards, G; Shane Hutson, M; Hauger, S; Kozub, J; Shen, J; Shieh, C; Topadze, K; Joos, K, Comparison of OPA and Mark-III FEL for tissue ablation at 6.45 microns, in Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast and Free Electron Lasers, edited by Glenn S. Edwards, Joseph Neev, Andreas Ostendorf, and John Sutherland, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 4633 (January, 2002), pp. 194-200, SPIE [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/12/31)

   Abstract:
   We have investigated the experimental consequences of two picosecond infrared lasers, both tuned to 6.45 μm and focused on ocular tissue. The exposure conditions were comparable, other than pulse repetition rate, where an optical parametric oscillator/amplifier laser (OPA) system operates at a kilohertz and the Mark-III FEL at 3 gigahertz. In both cases, the peak intensity was near 2×1014 W/m2 and the total delivered energy was approximately 125 mJ. The Mark-III consistently ablates tissue, while the OPA fails to ablate or to damage corneal tissue. In particular, there is no experimental evidence for protein denaturation due to OPA irradiation. We account for these observations in terms of a theoretical model based on thermal diffusion and threshold conditions for superheating and chemical kinetics. We comment on the relevance of tissue geometry.