Excimer Lasers

Gas lasers with excited dimers (i.e., excimers) as the active medium. The most commonly used are rare gas monohalides (e.g., argon fluoride, xenon chloride). Their principal emission wavelengths are in the ultraviolet range and depend on the monohalide used (e.g., 193 nm for ArF, 308 nm for Xe Cl). These lasers are operated in pulsed and Q-switched modes and used in photoablative decomposition involving actual removal of tissue. (UMDNS, 2005)

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Equipment and Supplies
- Optical Devices: 339
  - Lasers: 50076
    - Excimer Lasers: 1954
- Radiation Equipment and Supplies
  - Lasers: 50076
    - Excimer Lasers: 1954

1.	Coma (Comas) 05/01/1999 - "Application of this method revealed the coma of Zernike polynomials for our krypton fluoride (KrF) excimer-laser scanner."

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