Flexible Hollow Metal Light Guide For Medical CO[sub]2[/sub] Laser

Uichi Kubo; Yuichi Hashishin

doi:10.1117/12.943914

24 October 1984 Flexible Hollow Metal Light Guide For Medical CO₂ Laser

Uichi Kubo, Yuichi Hashishin

Proceedings Volume 0494, Novel Optical Fiber Techniques for Medical Applications; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943914
Event: 28th Annual Technical Symposium, 1984, San Diego, United States

Abstract

In a medical CO₂ laser system for clinical use, it is necessary to develop the new type laser beam guide. As this one technique, a light guide by metal-polymer hollow tube was developed with aluminum foil and polymer. An aluminum foil and thin polymer were used as light beam reflector and the spacer between aluminum foils. The laser beam is propagated in a space bounded with the aluminum foils and polymer spacers. Namely,beam propagation medium is the air,therefore,this guide tube is non-toxic for CO₂ laser beam propagation. The present experimental results she that the CO₂ laser beam transmission rate exceeds 80% per meter, emitted power was obtained about 25W at lm guide length and any accidents were not happen under condition that the continuous transmission in an hour.

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Uichi Kubo and Yuichi Hashishin "Flexible Hollow Metal Light Guide For Medical CO₂ Laser", Proc. SPIE 0494, Novel Optical Fiber Techniques for Medical Applications, (24 October 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943914

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