Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. However, there is still a lot that scientists do not know about the ways in which laser light interacts with living tissue. Now, some of these basic ...

Lasers cut precisely and without contact—ideal for surgery. The problem is that in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers at the University of Basel have ...

A lot has changed in the last 20 years, from the smartphones and tablets that are now ever-present in our hands to the advent of self-driving and electric cars. In the same time, medical technology ...

One of the promising new applications using the femtosecond laser in refractive surgery is the IntraCor procedure, [5,25] which is based on a controlled biomechanical manipulation. In this procedure, ...

The latest generation of refractive surgical lasers is achieving results that are “changing the goal” of refractive surgery, a leading refractive surgeon said. “The latest versions of these lasers are ...

Despite the resurgence of surface ablation observed several years ago, the procedure has been losing popularity among refractive surgeons due to recent advancements in femtosecond laser technology.

It's the 20th anniversary of laser eye surgery. Please can you give a brief overview of how laser eye surgery has developed over the years? LASIK (Laser In Situ Keratomileusis) creates a hinged flap ...

Surgeons may someday use super-concentrated sunlight to burn tumors off major organs. So say Israeli scientists, who have succeeded in channeling sunlight down a fiber optic cable to produce laserlike ...

One of our most cherished senses has to be the gift of sight. For a start, you’d not be reading this article without it. But as any glasses wearer will tell you, how nice it would be to not always ...

There is an inverse relationship between the laser pulse duration and the energy required in each pulse to generate the optical breakdown. [3] A shorter pulse (200–500 fs) needs lower energy to ...