LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is for students to understand the principles and use of Lasers in daily practice in
his professional career.
Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to:
•know and understand the principles and applications of Lasers
• know the different types of Lasers and their properties.
• Understand issues and practices of using lasers in optometry and ophthalmology
SYLLABUS
- Emission (spontaneous and stimulated) and absorption of radiation
- Basic principles of operation of Lasers. Population inversion- radiation amplification, gain, Oscillation modes
- Gas lasers, solid state lasers, semiconductor lasers
- Excime LASER.
- Safety of LASERs. Classification and applications. Medical effect on tissues – technical data of medical applications
- Diagnostic instruments based on lasers (confocal ophthalmoscope, polarimeter)
- LCI, optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- Use of lasers in eye treatment (systems based on photochemical interactions, photothermal interactions, photo-ablation, photodistruction with nanosecond pulses, plasma and femtosecond pulses