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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Optimedica Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David A. Dewey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Georg Schuele, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Noah Bareket, Saratoga, CA (US);
John S. Hart, San Carlos, CA (US);
Javier G. Gonzalez, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raymond Woo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Z. Teisseyre, Pacifica, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Golda, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Katrina B. Sheehy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Madeleine C. O'Meara, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bruce Woodley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
OPTIMEDICA CORPORATION, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of reversibly separating an imaging assembly from an optical path in a laser surgical system includes generating an electromagnetic beam, propagating the electromagnetic beam from the beam source to a scanner along an optical path, the optical path comprising a first optical element that attenuates the electromagnetic beam, reversibly inserting a confocal bypass assembly into the optical path, diverting the electromagnetic beam along a diversion optical path around the first optical element, wherein the confocal bypass assembly automatically exits the optical path when a power loss occurs to one or more components of the system.