Biological Applications and Effects of Optical Masers.

Abstract

A MILES prototype GaAs laser was installed in a visual acuity room where a trained monkey was exposed for 1000 s on a 5 day basis during its visual acuity testing program. Although previous exposures of the rhesus retina to 2 GaAs lasers in the pulsed mode did not produce funduscopically visible effects, a third GaAs laser (830 nm) modulated at 20.4 MHz did produce funduscopically visible damage at power levels too low to cause thermal damage to the retina. Possible explanations are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA140234

Entities

People

  • A. M. Clarke
  • H. A. Mueller
  • J. J. Ruffolo Jr.
  • S. F. Cleary
  • W. T. Ham Jr.

Organizations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Biological Pigments
  • Cells
  • Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Frequency
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Optics
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Power Levels
  • Radiation
  • Rhesus Monkeys
  • Short Wavelengths

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy