Synchronized trains of picosecond laser pulses of two different wavelengths constitute a powerful tool to study fast processes in materials. In the last several years this scheme was used to study vibrational dephasing of molecular monolayers on surfaces,’ optical nonlinearities in the polydiacetylene PTS conjugated polymer,“‘3 and the solvent dependance of the rotational diffusion of Cresyl Vi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Both the diagnosis and the treatment of lichenoid dermatosis are often difficult and can be time-consuming. There are now more and more publications about the use of laser systems--especially the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser--in the treatment of inflammatory dermatoses, although the laser's exact mechanism of action in these cases is not yet clear. STUDY DESIGN/...

BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no systematic analysis of nonablative laser therapy has been performed. OBJECTIVE To alter the parameters (fluence, spot size, pulse duration, and use of cooling spray) for the pulsed dye laser to determine the precise settings that would yield the most favorable dermal remodeling in a porcine model. METHODS Research was conducted in an animal laboratory at Alba...

BACKGROUND Multiple eccrine hidrocystomas are benign cystic lesions that pose a significant treatment challenge due to their facial location and tendency to scar after traditional surgical and other destructive modalities. METHODS A 585nm pulsed dye laser was used at fluences ranging 7.0 J/cm2 to 7.5 J/cm2 at 6- to 8-week intervals to treat multiple lesions on the face of a 54-year-old man. ...

As a kind of congenital vascular malformations, Port Wine Stain (PWS) is composed of ectatic venular capillary blood vessels buried within healthy dermis. In clinic, Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL) in visible band (e.g. 585 or 595 nm) together with cryogen spray cooling has become the golden standard for treatment of PWS. However, due to the limited energy penetration depth of the PDL, deeply buried blo...

A modified simple cavity design for the grazing incidence dye laser is presented. Diffraction losses are reduced by the addition of an intracavity lens and 100% reflecting spherical end mirror. The resulting concentric resonator design allows conversion efficiencies of 15% to be achieved. In addition, linewidth reductions of 25-40% over the conventional cavity are obtained, and the effects of t...

In this paper, the laser recording of thin diffraction gratings in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) – cetyltrimethyl-ammonium chloride (CTMA) surfactant doped with Rhodamine 610 (Rh610) films is experimentally investigated. The diffraction efficiency of the gratings induced in dye-doped DNA films by the interference of two Ar laser beams at 514.5 nm wavelength is monitored using a He-Ne probe beam (...