TY - JOUR
T1 - Hollow tubes for transmitting IR laser energy for surgery applications
AU - Dror, J.
AU - Gannot, I.
AU - Croitoru, N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 1989/6/2
Y1 - 1989/6/2
N2 - Hollow plastic tubes covered inside with films of metal or metal and dielectric materials were shown to transmit CO2 laser light with high yields. There was only a small influence on the transmission of light by the radius of curvature on the tubes or the input energies. Output energy intensity measurements have shown that, under certain conditions, whispering gallery modes could exist inside the fiber, which gives low attenuation and negligible variations of transmission with bending. This makes this type of fibers suitable for medical applications especially in surgery.
AB - Hollow plastic tubes covered inside with films of metal or metal and dielectric materials were shown to transmit CO2 laser light with high yields. There was only a small influence on the transmission of light by the radius of curvature on the tubes or the input energies. Output energy intensity measurements have shown that, under certain conditions, whispering gallery modes could exist inside the fiber, which gives low attenuation and negligible variations of transmission with bending. This makes this type of fibers suitable for medical applications especially in surgery.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.951389
DO - 10.1117/12.951389
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AN - SCOPUS:85075294272
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 1048
SP - 112
EP - 116
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - Infrared Fiber Optics 1989
Y2 - 15 January 1989 through 20 January 1989
ER -