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P Rol1, F Fankhauser, P D Henchoz
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
One may consider the clad silica fibre cutting probe as a cheap alternative of the popular sapphire probe, sharing some of its properties. Made of silica, the scalpels have a fair heat tolerance and may be used without cooling by liquids or gas as is necessary with sapphire blades. The laser scalpel described here is driven (powered) with a 10 W cw Nd:YAG laser energy source (1064 nm) and possesses good cutting and haemostatic properties. It may also be used with lasers emitting other wavelengths. One may assume that a diode laser emitting in the near infrared (800-810 nm) may have very similar, although no analogous cutting properties when used with the described scalpel.
