Abstract:
In a contact glass for ophthalmic surgery, which comprises a lens body (22) incorporated into a mount (37), said mount (37) having an anterior lens surface (29) designed to be placed on the eye (2), which anterior lens surface (29) is concave according to a curved surface (K), and an annular gap (44) is formed between the lens body (22) and the mount (37), via which gap a vacuum can be applied for fixing the contact glass (12) to the eye (2), it is envisaged that the mount (37) continues the curved surface (K) in an imaginary extension of the latter or at least does not protrude with respect to said curved surface.
Abstract:
In a device for material processing by means of laser radiation, said device comprising a source of laser radiation emitting pulsed laser radiation for interaction with the material; optics focusing the pulsed processing laser radiation to a center of interaction in the material; a scanning unit shifting the positions of the center of interaction within the material, wherein each processing laser pulse interacts with the material in a zone surrounding the center of interaction assigned to said laser pulse so that material is separated in the zones of interaction; and a control unit which controls the scanning unit and the source of laser radiation such that a cut surface is produced in the material by sequential arrangement of zones of interaction, it is envisaged that the control unit controls the source of laser radiation and the scanning unit such that adjacent centers of interaction are located at a spatial distance a≦10 μm from each other.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a manual connector for a hose line to connect to a pressure or vacuum-generating device, where it is equipped with an additional functional element such as a filter, a fluid separator or an identification element.
Abstract:
A method for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue, comprises the step of providing laser pulses with a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency from 50 kHz to 1 MHz and with a wavelength between 600 and 2000 nm for acting on the material to be worked. Apparatus, in accordance with the invention, for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue comprising a pulsed laser, wherein the laser has a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency of from 50 kHz to 1 MHz is also described.
Abstract:
In a device for material processing by laser radiation, including a source of laser radiation emitting pulsed laser radiation for interaction with the material; optics focusing the pulsed processing laser radiation to a center of interaction in the material and a scanning unit shifting the positions of the center of interaction within the material. Each processing laser pulse interacts with the material in a zone surrounding the center of interaction assigned to the laser pulse so that material is separated in the zones of interaction. A control unit controls the scanning unit and the source of laser radiation such that a cut surface is produced in the material by sequential arrangement of zones of interaction. The control unit controls the source of laser radiation and the scanning unit such that adjacent centers of interaction are located at a spatial distance a ≦10 μm from each other.
Abstract:
A medical laser therapy device, particularly for use in ophthalmology and surgery, comprises a controllable pump module with a coupling element for a waveguide, a beam control device in the form of a waveguide for supplying the pumping radiation delivered by the pump module to the applicator which is provided with a coupling element for the waveguide for introducing a target beam and/or treatment beam into the eye to be treated. The device is primarily characterized in that the pump module has laser diodes whose electromagnetic pumping radiation is in the spectral range from 800 nm to 815 nm, and in that an optics module is provided which couples the pumping radiation into the waveguide, in that the beam control device is an Nd-doped waveguide laser with a double core or single core and a suitable reflecting coating of the fiber end faces, the waveguide forming a laser cavity with radiation in a frequency range between 1050 nm and 1070 nm, in that the applicator is a laser slit lamp with zoom system having a device for frequency doubling which preferably comprises nonlinear optical material or periodically poled nonlinear optical material, in that the applicator has a device for power monitoring and a device for illuminating and observing the operating field, and in that the applicator has a target beam device whose radiation is coupled collinearly into the beam path for the therapy radiation by a suitable beamsplitter. The medical therapy device is constructed in a modular manner.
Abstract:
In a projection arrangement for projecting an image onto a projection surface, there are provided a light source (26), a control unit (25), a light modulator (10), which is controllable by said control unit (25) in order to generate an image on the basis of predetermined image data, an optical device (11), arranged following said light modulator, for projecting said image onto the projection surface (34), a film stage (2) for holding a positive image recorded on a carrier medium, projection optics (3), arranged following the film stage (2) when projecting the positive image, and a control device (6), allowing either to direct light from the light source (26) to the light modulator (10) or to illuminate a positive image, which is held by the film stage (2), with said light. Thus, a projection arrangement is provided which can project both positive images and images generated on the basis of predetermined data onto a projection surface (34).
Abstract:
A method and an arrangement for detecting the position of the plane XY of an object, which plane XY is to be scanned, and for its positioning in the focal plane X′Y′ of a laser scanner, preferably for a laser scanning microscope. According to the disclosure, it is provided in a method of the type described above that, after a rough orientation of the object carried out by placing on an object holder, a laser beam is directed successively in time to at least three different points P1, P2 . . . Pn located in the scan plane XY of the object and, in doing so, each of the reflections proceeding from the points P1, P2 . . . Pn is imaged on a position-sensitive detector, an actual position value is determined at the detector for each reflection and is compared with a stored reference position value, adjustment commands for changing the inclination of the object holder are obtained from the deviations of the actual position values from the reference position values, and the inclination of the object holder is changed on the basis of these adjustment commands until points P1, P2 . . . Pn are located in the focal plane X′Y′ of the laser scanner.
Abstract:
A projection arrangement for projecting an image onto a projection surface, said arrangement comprising a light source (26), a film stage (2), arranged following said light source, for holding a positive image recorded on a carrier medium, and projection optics (3) for projecting a illuminated positive image, is provided with a control unit (25), a light modulator (10) controllable by said control unit in order to generate an additional image on the basis of predetermined image data, said light modulator being followed by an optical device (11) for projecting the additional image onto the projection surface (34), and with a beam splitter (6) arranged between the light source (26) and the film stage (2) so as to split the light from the light source (26) into a first partial beam directed to the film stage (2) in order to illuminate the positive image and into a second partial beam which may be directed to the light modulator (10). Thus, a projection arrangement is provided which allows to project additional images, such as subtitles, in addition to the illuminated positive image.
Abstract:
A laser scanning ophthalmoscope with at least a first scanner, wherein a scanning movement is generated at least in a first direction, wherein the illumination of the eye is effected alternately with different wavelengths during the scanning movement in the first direction and a first image is received for a first illumination wavelength and a second image is received for a second illumination wavelength, and a plurality of images which are received in this way are compared with one another and correction values are determined from the object displacement of images received at an illumination wavelength for the images received at the other respective illumination wavelength.