Conventional light-pumped high power system for medical applicat

Details Conventional light-pumped high power system for medical applicat Conventional light-pumped high power system for medical applicat

1995-06-07

1998-06-23

Bahr, Jennifer

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

606 2, 606 13, 607 88, 362298, 362303, 392419, 392420, 392421, A61B 1736

Patent

active

057698449

ABSTRACT:
An optical system which utilizes a conventional light source to produce a narrowly focused beam of radiation having intensity similar to that produced by a laser. The system broadly includes an omnidirectional light source and an elliptical reflector, wherein the physical parameters of the light source and the reflector are matched to produce a narrowly focused beam of intense radiation. The light produced by the system is coupled into a fiber optic system for delivery to the target area. In one embodiment, a mirrored surface having an aperture therein is placed at a point near the second focal point of the reflector. The aperture is positioned such that only rays meeting predetermined geometrical exit criteria can pass through the aperture and be accepted by the fiber optic located at the second focal point. Those rays which do not meet the exit criteria are reflected by the mirrored surface toward the interior of the cavity. Some of the reflected rays provide additional amplification of the light produced by the light source and the course of these rays is altered such that they are eventually able to meet the exit criteria and pass through the aperture.

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