For medical applications, a hollow fiber is an effective delivery medium for infrared lasers represented by Er:YAG and CO/sub 2/ lasers which common silica glass fibers cannot transmit due to the absorption. We have developed hollow fibers with a polymer thin film upon the inside of silver-coated glass capillary tube and shown their low loss properties for high-powered infrared lasers. In this paper, we report the results on small bore hollow fibers with the bore sizes of 320 /spl mu/m and 250 /spl mu/m which we newly developed for medical applications requiring highly flexible fibers or targeting laser beam at very small objects.


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    Title :

    Small-bore, polymer-coated hollow fibers for medical infrared lasers


    Contributors:
    Abe, Y. (author) / Matsuura, Y. (author) / Miyagi, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    137366 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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