Electrically emulating pulsed laser minimal collateral damage ultramicrosurgery

Summary form only given. The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate that a simple and novel method based on delivering transient electrical pulses through tapered glass structures has the potential to compete with the ultramicrosurgical action of laser techniques such as the ArF and Er:YAG lasers that have been able to effectively perform in areas of microsurgery, such as vitreoretinal surgery, that require ultraprecise tissue culling with minimal collateral damage. Microelectrodes with special designs have been prepared based on glass pulling technologies developed in our laboratory for point thermocouples, heaters and near-field optical elements that can also act as optical coax structures.