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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Andreas Stingl, Korneuburg, AT;
Ferenc Krausz, Vösendorf, AT;
Andreas Stingl, Korneuburg, AT;
Ferenc Krausz, Vösendorf, AT;
Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, , AT;
Abstract
A dental laser arrangement switchable between different modes of operation, the arrangement including a laser device operable as a laser oscillator and as a laser amplifier. The laser device includes a laser resonator having a pump unit and an active modelocker as well as an optic loss element that introduces selective losses in the resonator. The laser arrangement further includes a laser beam-out-coupling unit. The modelocker is connected to a control circuit for switching between a CW-mode of operation for coagulating soft tissue, in which the modelocker is switched off, and two short-pulse modes of operation in which high frequency signals of equal frequencies, but different powers are applied by the control circuit to the modelocker so as to generate laser pulses of a pre-determined duration. One of the two short-pulse modes of operation is provided for ablation of hard tooth tissue, and the other short-pulse mode of operation, in which the laser radiation has a lower peak power in comparison with the first-mentioned short-pulse mode of operation, is for surface sealing of hard tooth tissue. An output of the control circuit furthermore is applied to the activatable optic loss element for controlling the losses in the resonator in the short-pulse modes of operation.