Gary D. Noojin

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the pulse duration on the mechanical effects following laser-induced breakdown in water was studied at pulse durations between 100 fs and 100 ns at a cuvette containing distilled water.

TL;DR: The shielding effectiveness of laser-induced breakdown from focused, visible laser pulses from 5 ns to 125fs is determined from measurements of transmission of energy through the focal volume and the shielding efficiency decreases as a function of pulse duration and increases from 300 fs to 125 fs.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytic first-order model was developed to calculate irradiance thresholds for laser-induced breakdown in condensed media, including ocular and aqueous media, and the model has been incorporated into a computer code and code results have been compared to experimentally measured irradiance threshold for breakdown of ocular media, saline, and water by nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses in the visible and near-infrared.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytic first-order model was developed to calculate irradiance thresholds for laser-induced breakdown in condensed media, including ocular and aqueous media, and the model has been incorporated into a computer code and code results have been compared to experimentally measured irradiance threshold for breakdown of ocular media, saline, and water by nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses in the visible and near-infrared.

TL;DR: Spectrally resolved white-light interferometry was used to measure the wavelength dependence of refractive index (i.e., dispersion) for various ocular components and verified its efficacy by accurate measurement of the dispersive properties of water and fused silica.