Optical Coherence Tomography and Femtosecond Lasers: examples of applications
Optical coherence tomography monitoring of vocal fold femtosecond laser microsurgery
OCT-aided femtosecond laser micromachining device
Paper 7203-6 of Conference 7203
Date: Sunday, 25 January 2009
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
Author(s): Ole Massow, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (Germany); Fabian Will,
Holger Lubatschowski, Rowiak GmbH (Germany)
Due to nonlinear interaction with biological tissue the femtosecond laser
technology can be used for high precision micro machining. The resolution of a
typical Optical Coherence Tomography system lies within the low µm range as well
as the accuracy of the fs laser micro machining system. We demonstrate the setup
and use of a system consisting of a fs-laser and a Fourier Domain OCT using the
same high NA objective for both, cutting and imaging. Examples of in situ OCT
images of the surgery area before and after treatment as well as OCT aided cuts
in various biological tissue will be shown.