Artificial eye for in vitro experiments of laser light interaction with aqueous media

Clarence P. Cain; Gary D. Noojin; Daniel X. Hammer; Robert J. Thomas; Benjamin A. Rockwell

doi:10.1117/12.261683

1 January 1997 Artificial eye for in vitro experiments of laser light interaction with aqueous media

Clarence P. Cain, Gary D. Noojin, Daniel X. Hammer, Robert J. Thomas, Benjamin A. Rockwell

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, (January 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.261683

Abstract

An artificial eye has been designed and assembled that mimics the focusing geometry of the living eye. The artificial eye's focusing characteristics are measured and compared with those of the in vivo system. The artificial eye is used to measure several nonlinear optical phenomena that may have an impact on the laser damage thresholds of the retina produced by ultrashort laser pulses. We chose a focal length of 17 mm to simulate the rhesus monkey eye, with a visual cone angle of 8.4 deg for a 2.5-mm diameter laser beam input. The measured focal point image diameter was 5.6±1 μm, which was 1.5 times the calculated diffraction-limited image diameter. This focusing system had the best M² of all the systems evaluated. We used the artificial eye to measure the threshold for laser-induced breakdown, stimulated Brillouin scattering, super-continuum generation, and pulse temporal broadening due to group velocity dispersion.

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Clarence P. Cain, Gary D. Noojin, Daniel X. Hammer, Robert J. Thomas, and Benjamin A. Rockwell "Artificial eye for in vitro experiments of laser light interaction with aqueous media," Journal of Biomedical Optics 2(1), (1 January 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.261683

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Eye

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Dispersion

Laser damage threshold

Plasma

Laser scattering

Pulsed laser operation

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