Laser Technology

Laser used in medical field is the most important high-tech medical technology in this century, laser medical treatment relates to all clinical disciplines, such as ophthalmology, dermatology, surgery, dentistry, oncology, cancer, etc. Laser has a revolutionary breakthrough in medical treatment, and different wavelengths suit for different therapeutic areas.


Laser Therapy

Areas of application:

  • ■ External laser therapy
  • ■ Intra-articular laser therapy
  • ■ Pain therapy
  • ■ Interstitial laser therapy
  • ■ Intravenous laser therapy
  • ■ Photodynamic therapy

Common wavelengths:
447nm, 532 nm, 589 nm, 655 nm, 810 nm...

With free space or fiber coupling output option, usually the power is 5~100 mW for 447 nm blue laser, 5~50 mW for 532 nm green laser and 589 nm yellow laser, both power and frequency can be adjusted individually In medicine, lasers allow surgeons to work at high levels of precision by focusing on a small area, damaging less of the surrounding tissue. If you have laser therapy, you may experience less pain, swelling, and scarring than with traditional surgery. However, laser therapy can be expensive and require repeated treatments.


Laser for Ophthalmology

Areas of application:

  • ■ Retinal photocoagulation
  • ■ Iridotomy
  • ■ Cataract surgery
  • ■ Trabecular angioplasty
  • ■ Lamellar keratoplasty
  • ■ Vitreous Lysis

Normally several millijoules are needed for pulsed laser, such as 2 mJ for 532 nm laser and 10mJ for 1064 nm laser. The power is around several watts such as 2 W, 3 W for 532 nm green laser. Eyes are the most sophisticated, one of the most important organs. Also eyes are very fragile and vulnerable. Once the eyeball appears lesion, it is difficult to remove the lesion safely by normal surgery. While most organizations of eyes are transparent, which allows the beam to get through. With the development of laser science, people realize to use the laser for eyes treatment, and achieved good results. 

Common wavelengths:
532 nm, 561 nm, 577 nm, 635 nm, 671 nm, 810 nm, 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1320 nm...


Laser Surgery

Areas of application:

  • ■ Oncology (cancer treatment)
  • ■ Gallstones
  • ■ Lithotripsy
  • ■ Urological Surgery
  • ■ Gynecological Surgery
  • ■ Varicose Veins

Laser surgery uses laser light to remove diseased tissues or treat bleeding blood vessels. Laser surgery may also be used to remove wrinkles, sunspots, tattoos, or birthmarks. Areas of application:

Common wavelengths:
447 nm, 532 nm, 561 nm, 577 nm, 635 nm, 810 nm, 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1320 nm, 1470 nm... Especially the double pulsed frequency doubling laser type with 532 nm and 1064 nm combined for 120 mJ/ 160 mJ of single pulse energy, 240/ 320 mJ of double pulse energy.

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Applications: cloud and enterprise, optical transport and data centre interconnects, SDN, CATV, wireless backhaul etc.


DWDM and Coherent Optical Transceivers
100G/200G designed for long haul, metro and data centre DWDM applications.


Pump Lasers
Ultra-small form factor pump lasers (telecordia, 980nm DFB).
10- pin mini butterfly 9xx pump lasers (power levels 100mW -950mW).
Multimode pump lasers (for the FTTx and CATV high-power EDFA pumping market).


Source Lasers and Photodiodes
APDs- for telecom receiver applications up to 11.3 Gbps
DMLs- cooled and uncooled DML diode chips designed for various 25G and 100G applications.
EMLs- diode chips for 10G to 25G applications with NRZ modulation and 100 G with PAM4 data modulation.
VCSELs – for 25G and 50G data rates.


ROADMs and Wavelength
Provide advanced SDN flexibility.
ROADM for NEMs ensure seamless integration into their systems.


Optical Amplifiers
Commercial lasers including (health sciences, metallurgy, research)
Applications: micro and macro materials processing (cutting and welding of sheet metal), optical pumping, biomedical and analytics instrumentation, semiconductor inspection, stereolithography, printing, imaging, Research: photocathode illumination, plasma physics, light-fusion initialized etc.


kW Fiber and Direct-diode Lasers
Tunkey fiber lasers- ideal for macromaterials processing environments.
Fiber laser modules- high brightness for extremely high- speed sheet metal cutting and remote welding.
Direct-diode engines: eliminates the typical feed fiber by connecting the process fiber to the front of laser engine.


Ultrafast Lasers
High-power picosecond micromachining laser.
Compact picosecond micromachining.
Quasi- continuous wave UV laser.


Q-switched Lasers
High-power Q-switched diode-pumped UV and green lasers.
Tattoo and hair removal purposes.


Low Power and CW Lasers
Gas lasers- commonly optimized for specific OEM applications.
Solid state lasers- for applications such as biotechnology instrumentation, remote sensing, semiconductor inspection, and flow cytometry.


Edge Emitting Diode Lasers
2.3 W peak power 855nm multimode diode lasers.
350mW 854nm single-mode diode lasers etc.


Fiber-coupled diode lasers
10-12W 915/940 nm fiber -coupled diode laser, L4 series.
140W fiber-coupled diode pump laser ST series.
200W fiber-coupled diode pump laser module, etc.


VCSELS
High-power 940nm VCSEL array for In-cabin applications.
Multi- junction VCSEL arrays