Silica hollow core microstructured fibres for mid-infrared surgical applications

Artur Urich; Robert Raimund Josef Maier; Fei Yu; Jonathan C Knight; Duncan Paul Hand; Jonathan D Shephard

doi:10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2013.01.055

Silica hollow core microstructured fibres for mid-infrared surgical applications

Artur Urich, Robert Raimund Josef Maier, Fei Yu, Jonathan C Knight, Duncan Paul Hand, Jonathan D Shephard

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In this paper two silica hollow core microstructured fibres (Negative Curvature Fibre and Photonic Bandgap Fibre) are presented with attenuations of 0.06 dB/m and 1.1 dB/m at 2.94 mu m wavelengths, respectively. This is an important regime for medical applications, specifically surgery due to the existence of a strong absorption peak for water around 3 mu m. The guidance of high energy pulses of the order of 195 mJ and 14.4 mJ respectively has been demonstrated. These energies are sufficient to ablate soft and hard biological tissues. As verification porcine bone was ablated in air and submerged in water to simulate practical application of a surgical device. These fibres open the way to a new and fully flexible delivery system for high energy Er:YAG laser radiation. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	236-239
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Volume	377
Early online date	28 Mar 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2013.01.055
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2013
Event	18th International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses - Saint Malo, Rennes, France Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 5 Jul 2012

Keywords

Photonic Bandgap Fibre
Negative Curvature Fibre
Fibres for medical applications
Microstructured fibre
SAPPHIRE OPTICAL-FIBERS
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER
MU-M
CHALCOGENIDE GLASS
LASER LITHOTRIPSY
SPECTRAL REGION
GERMANIUM OXIDE
WAVE-GUIDES
DELIVERY
DESIGN

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