Title :
High-speed, thermal damage-free ablation of brain tissue with femtosecond pulse bursts
Author :
Can Kerse;Seydi Yavaş;Hamit Kalaycioğlu;Mehmet D. Aşik;Önder Akçaalan;F. Ömer Ilday
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06800, Turkey
Abstract :
We report a novel ultrafast burst mode fiber laser system and results on ablation of rat brain tissue at rates approaching an order of magnitude improvement over previous reports, with no discernible thermal damage.
Keywords :
"Brain","Heating","Ultrafast optics","Physics","Surgery","Ultrafast electronics","Nanotechnology"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375900
