Low-power skin welding by thulium (Tm:YAP) laser at 1980-nm

Author

Bilici, Temel ; Tabakoglu, Özgiir ; Kalaycioglu, Hamit ; Kurt, Arda ; Sennaroglu, Alphan ; Gulsoy, Murat

Author_Institution

Biophotonics Lab., Bogazic Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Laser skin welding is an invasive method of bonding skin tissues by temperature increase due to laser energy. In this study, a continuous-wave Tm:YAP laser at 1980 nm was designed as a versatile laser system for laser tissue welding. Due to higher water absorption near 1980 nm, lower power levels of Tm:YAP lasers (compared to smaller wavelength lasers) are enough for tissue welding and no solder is necessary to increase the absorption effect. This decreases the operation time and adverse effects due to solders. 2-mum lasers are also considered to be in the "eye-safe" region, which makes them more suitable for clinical applications.

Keywords

laser applications in medicine; laser beam welding; thulium; yttrium compounds; YAP:Tm; absorption effect; laser energy; low-power skin welding; skin tissues; thulium (Tm:YAP) laser at 1980-nm; wavelength 1980 nm; wavelength 2 mum; Absorption; Fiber lasers; Laboratories; Laser modes; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Power lasers; Rats; Skin; Welding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192539

Filename

5192539