Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag

Sonja Laicher

Philipp Madlinger

Christian Diekow

A console of an ophthalmic surgical system is for operating a surgical handpiece which includes a treatment needle and a drive for driving the treatment needle by oscillation. The console includes a generator configured to provide a time-varying drive signal for the drive, an evaluation unit, and a detection unit. The detection unit is electrically couplable to the drive and detects a contact signal of the drive on account of a second oscillation amplitude in a low-oscillation state of the needle in which the needle oscillates at a maximum first oscillation amplitude. The generator provides the drive signal such that the drive is deactivated during the low-oscillation state. The evaluation unit evaluates the contact signal and determines contact of a particle with the needle on a basis of the evaluation. The detection unit detects the contact signal when the second oscillation amplitude is greater than the first oscillation amplitude.

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Oberkochen, Germany

Sonja Laicher