• DocumentCode
    3725910
  • 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
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375900
  • Filename
    7375900