Concave mirror laser beam waveguide for a carbon dioxide laser surgery system
An improved articulated laser beam waveguide with seven mirrors was developed for a carbon dioxide laser surgery system. Four concave mirrors were introduced to suppress the accumulating off-axis error and to control the beam diameter of the propagating laser beam. Each curvature of the concave mirr...
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| Published in | Applied optics (2004) Vol. 29; no. 3; p. 384 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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United States
20.01.1990
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| Summary: | An improved articulated laser beam waveguide with seven mirrors was developed for a carbon dioxide laser surgery system. Four concave mirrors were introduced to suppress the accumulating off-axis error and to control the beam diameter of the propagating laser beam. Each curvature of the concave mirror was determined to be optimum according to the calculation of off-axis errors and Gaussian beam parameters of the propagating laser beam. An experiment demonstrated the merits of introducing the concave mirrors according to the proposed design procedure. |
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| ISSN: | 1559-128X |
| DOI: | 10.1364/AO.29.000384 |