Nonimaging optical designs for laser fiber optic surgery

Jeffrey M. Gordon

doi:10.1117/1.601642

1 February 1998 Nonimaging optical designs for laser fiber optic surgery

Jeffrey M. Gordon

Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 2, (February 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601642

Nonimaging edge-ray concentrators may be uniquely well suited to a number of laser fiber optic contact surgical procedures where sizable increases in irradiance are required at maximum collection efficiency, and light must be emitted uniformly over a wide angular range. Compared to earlier fiber optic devices developed for these tasks, the delivered irradiance from nonimaging designs can be more than double, at maximum radiative efficiency, while producing a Lambertian absorber, i.e., uniform emission over the entire hemisphere. Because edge-ray designs appear to have been overlooked in the development of laser fiber optic devices, we present a couple of candidate designs and evaluate attainable flux concentration and radiative efficiency.

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Jeffrey M. Gordon "Nonimaging optical designs for laser fiber optic surgery," Optical Engineering 37(2), (1 February 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601642

Published: 1 February 1998

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