Vocal fold scarring can arise from disease or postsurgical wound healing and is one of the predominant causes of voice disorders. Focused ultrafast laser pulses have been previously demonstrated to create tightly confined sub-surface ablation in a variety of tissue, including vocal folds. Here, we demonstrate how we can take advantage of this unique ability of ultrafast laser ablation to create...

A breathing sphere model has been developed for molecular dynamics simulations of laser ablation of organic solids. The novel feature of this model is an approximate representation of the internal molecular motion, which permits a significant expansion of the time and length scales of the model, and yet still allows one to reproduce a realistic rate of the vibrational relaxation of excited mole...

Laser ablation is the method for material removing from a surface using pulsed lasers. It is used for surface structuring, laser drilling or laser marking. A change of the corrosion behavior of a base material caused by thermal effects during laser processing is an important problem of this technology. Possibilities of surface modification of stainless steel using laser ablation are presented i...

In recent years, due to the demonstrated high accuracy and reproducibility of the surgical procedures with fs pulses, the potential of using fs laser sources as a conventional tool for many surgical applications has increased. Moreover, the laser parameters can be so chosen as to modify the tissue in different ways. Future use of lasers in different fields in medicine will be related with the o...

BACKGROUND Combination of riboflavin/UVA cross-linking (CXL) and excimer laser ablation is a promising therapy for treating corneal ectasia. The cornea is strengthened by cross-linking, while the irregular astigmatism is reduced by laser ablation. This study aims to compare the efficacy of excimer laser ablation on porcine corneas with and without cross-linking. METHODS AND FINDINGS The porci...

Er:YAG and Ho:YAG laser beams were combined to irradiate hard tissues to achieve highly efficient ablation with low laser power. The delay time between pulses of the two lasers was controlled to irradiate alumina ceramic balls used as hard tissue models. With optimized delay time, the combined laser beam perforated the sample 40% deeper than independent radiation by either an Er:YAG or Ho:YAG l...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is currently the most popular and used ablation modality for the treatment of non surgical patients with primary and secondary liver tumors, but in the last years microwave ablation (MWA) is being technically improved and widely rediscovered for clinical use. Laser thermal ablation (LTA) is by far less investigated and used than RFA and MWA, but the available data ...

Focused laser ablation by single laser pulses at varying angles of incidence is studied in two materials of interest: a solgel ~Ormocer 4! and a polymer ~SU8!. For a range of angles ~up to 70° from normal!, and for low-energy ~,20 mJ!, 40 ns pulses at 266 nm wavelength, the ablation depth along the direction of the incident laser beam is found to be independent of the angle of incidence. This a...