中空金属形 CO₂レーザー導光路

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The power light guide system is usefull problem in the medical applications. In order that the function be must effective, enough flexibility and security of power light guide are required. As this one technique, we have developed a flexible CO₂ laser beam guide with metal and polymer hollow tube. This method is based on parallel metal guide technique. The laser beam is propagated in a space bounded with metal and polymer. Namely, beam propagation medium is the air, therefore, this guide tube is non-toxic for CO₂ laser beam propagation.
The present experimental results show that the CO₂ laser beam transmittance exceeds 80%per meter, emitted power was obtained ca. 25W at 1m guide length, and any accident were not happen under condition that the continuous transmission in an hour.