Chapter 8
Medical Applications of Organic Dye Lasers
A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and C. Gómez
8.1 Introduction
Laser systems have been applied in medicine since they first became available, and today they are employed in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Dye lasers, in particular, have potential advantages over other lasers as medical instruments.
A dye laser consists of an organic dye solution optically pumped by a light source (flashlamp, pulsed or continuous-wave [CW] laser). The type of output desired and the absorption properties of the dye determine the choice of the pump source. Dye lasers, in contrast to most other lasers, offer the possibility of shifting the output wavelength. The wavelength range covered by a single dye is ...
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