Corneal Damage from Infrared Radiation.

Abstract

This report summarizes our research during the past year on the interaction of short pulses of infrared radiation produced by a CO2-TEA laser with the cornea. The report discusses the re-establishment of our laboratory, revision and testing of our computer program for computing temperature histories, confirmation of earlier results for single-pulse damage thresholds, the determination of the damage threshold for a sequence of two 80 ns pulses at 5 Hz, and correcting problems with the laser in order to achieve uniform pulse amplitudes at higher pulse repetition frequencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA323653

Entities

People

  • Russell L. Mccally

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Animals
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Heat Transfer
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Lasers
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Materials
  • Pulse Amplitude
  • Radiation
  • Sequences
  • Tea Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy