Contact focusing multimodal microprobes for ultraprecise laser tissue surgery.
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Focusing of multimodal beams by chains of dielectric microspheres assembled directly inside the cores of hollow waveguides is studied by using numerical ray tracing.The device designs are optimized for laser surgery in contact mode with strongly absorbing tissue.Potential applications include ultra precise laser ablation or coagulation in the eye and brain, cellular surgery, and the coupling of light into photonic nanostructures.
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Affiliation: Department of Physics and Optical Science, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
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Focusing of multimodal beams by chains of dielectric microspheres assembled directly inside the cores of hollow waveguides is studied by using numerical ray tracing. The device designs are optimized for laser surgery in contact mode with strongly absorbing tissue. By analyzing a broad range of parameters it is demonstrated that chains formed by three or five spheres with a refractive index of 1.65-1.75 provide a two-fold improvement in spatial resolution over single spheres at the cost of 0.2-0.4 attenuation in peak intensity of the central focused beam. Potential applications include ultra precise laser ablation or coagulation in the eye and brain, cellular surgery, and the coupling of light into photonic nanostructures. Related in: MedlinePlus |
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g001: (a) Ray tracing inside the three-sphere (n=1.7) focusing microprobe, (b) schematic of the surface of the fiber core with the rays starting at random points, (c) intensity profiles calculated for a single sphere with n=1.7 as a function of the fiber to sphere distance (d). Mentions: The aim of our modeling was to create a generic design based on standard optical components, rather than one specific to a single application. As illustrated in Fig. 1 (a)Fig. 1 |
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Affiliation: Department of Physics and Optical Science, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.