Development for medical surgical system with function variability and flexible delivery using dual-wavelength infrared fiber laser

Kyota Naruse; Tsunenori Arai; Satoko Kawauchi; Tetsumi Sumiyoshi; Shoichi Kiyoshima; Miya Ishihara; Shunichi Sato; Makoto Kikuchi; Hitoshi Sekita; Minoru Obara

doi:10.1117/12.472515

27 June 2002 Development for medical surgical system with function variability and flexible delivery using dual-wavelength infrared fiber laser

Kyota Naruse, Tsunenori Arai, Satoko Kawauchi, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Kiyoshima, Miya Ishihara, Shunichi Sato, Makoto Kikuchi, Hitoshi Sekita, Minoru Obara

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Proceedings Volume 4617, Laser Tissue Interaction XIII: Photochemical, Photothermal, and Photomechanical; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472515
Event: International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2002, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We developed a medical surgical system with function variability and flexible delivery of dual-wavelength infrared fiber laser that simultaneously oscillated 3 and 2 micrometers radiation. We studied the function variability (cutting/coagulation) of this fiber laser using a specially designed filter which contained two adjacent areas with different transmission for 2 micrometers radiation. When the power of 3 micrometers radiation was set to 0.6 W and the power of 2 micrometers radiation was changed from 0 W to 0.77 W using this filter at the beam traveling speed of 0.25 mm/s, the cutting groove formed in myocardium tissue increased from 0.80 mm to 0.89 mm and the coagulation layer thickness increased from 0.41 mm to 0.85 mm. We successfully developed a filter system that could continuously control coagulation layer thickness with cutting capability constant. We studied a flexible beam delivery using a single crystal sapphire fiber. The transmission efficiency per meter for 3 and 2 micrometers radiation using a 200-micrometers core-diameter sapphire fiber was 58.0% and 60.4%, respectively. The bending loss at 3-cm loop radius was 5.6%. The high flexibility and low bending loss of the sapphire fiber might make it possible to apply the dual-wavelength infrared fiber laser to endoscopic treatment. In summary, these results may encourage the possibility for practical use of the fiber laser.

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Kyota Naruse, Tsunenori Arai, Satoko Kawauchi, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Kiyoshima, Miya Ishihara, Shunichi Sato, Makoto Kikuchi, Hitoshi Sekita, and Minoru Obara "Development for medical surgical system with function variability and flexible delivery using dual-wavelength infrared fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 4617, Laser Tissue Interaction XIII: Photochemical, Photothermal, and Photomechanical, (27 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472515

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