Refractive Surgery using Femtosecond Laser

Abstract

Femtosecond laser can evaporate irradiated site by continuous irradiation of the ultrashort pulse infrared laser and dissect to the arbitrary shape. This technology is becoming essential to the surgery that requires high accuracy such as refractive surgery and microscopic ophthalmological surgery. Furthermore, in recent years the technology of femtosecond laser is now adaptive in cataract surgery that exact circle-shaped lens capsulotomy and astigmatism correction with high accuracy are expected. Eye surgery by femtosecond laser has the potential to achieve further development in the future.