Development and clinical test of a MR-compatible stereotactic probe for laser-neurosurgery with real-time monitoring

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 95.0170-1

Key words (English)

Passive mode-locking; high-power mode-locked lasers; semiconductor saturable absorbers

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: BMH4-CT96-0716

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 4.2 Agriculture and agroindustry

Short description (English)

See abstract

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Universität Köln (D); Time Bandwidh Products AG (CH)

Abstract (English)

During the last 3 to 4 years our group has been pushing the frontiers in high-power picosecond and femtosecond solid-state lasers from the sub-l-W average power regime to 16 W for femtosecond and to 27 W for picosecond pulse generation. Micro-Joule pulses can now be generated directly from passively modelocked lasers which replaces a seed oscillator and a regenerative amplifier. In the near future, further power scaling to the 100-WAevel looks very promising using Yb-doped thin-disk lasers.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 95.0170-1