Fiber laser overview and medical applications

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  Development and application of fiber lasers for medical applications

  Mark C. Pierce, Stuart D. Jackson, Paul S. Golding , Ben Dickinson , Mark Russell Dickinson , Terence A. King , Philip Sloan

  Mark C. Pierce, 1 Stuart D. Jackson, 2 Paul S. Golding, 3 Ben Dickinson, 3 Mark Russell Dickinson, 3 Terence A. King, 3 Philip Sloan 4

  1 Univ. of Manchester (United States)
  2 Australian Photonics CRC (Australia)
  3 Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom)
  4 Univ. Dental Hospital (United Kingdom)
  

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  Recent progress in fiber laser technology has provided lasers operating at mid-infrared wavelengths, at power levels and temporal regimes previously inaccessible to bulk crystal lasers. This paper reports on the development of new continuous wave fiber lasers; a Tm-silica fiber laser operating at 1.98 micrometers , an Er,Pr:ZBLAN fiber laser at 2.78 micrometers and a Yb:Er-silica fiber laser at 1.5 micrometers , and pulsed fiber laser sources; gain-switched and Q-switched Tm- silica systems, specifically targeting applications in medicine. The first studies on the interaction of high- power, continuous wave mid-infrared fiber laser light and soft biological tissues are presented, demonstrating the ability of 2 and 3 micrometers fiber lasers to remove soft tissue cleanly, and with minimum collateral damage.

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