Speaker
Robin Marjoribanks
(U)
Description
Plasma-mediated ablation by ultrafast lasers has been widely investigated for its application in material processing, bio-medical surgery and scientific research. High repetition rate burst-mode ultrafast lasers that output pulsetrains of >1MHz repetition rate have shown advantages including higher material removal rate, and extra degrees of control. Ablation by such lasers is a highly dynamic process due to pulses interacting with the plasma created by previous pulses, and development of the ablation crater.
For capturing the dynamics of burst-mode ultrafast laser ablation, we have built an energy-partition diagnostics based on integrating spheres. The device time-resolves specular reflection, diffuse reflection, and transmission of each pulse. Distinct dynamic absorption of glass, metal, and biotissues during ablations by a 133 MHz burst-mode ultrafast lasers are shown using this device.
For studying ablation effects of burst-mode ultrafast-laser on bio-tissues in particular, we have also developed a 3d-living cell tissue proxy that mimics low-tensile strength tissue. The tissue-proxy is optically transparent, and allows diffusion of various fluorescent markers. Such feature allows examining of cell mortality (necrosis & apoptosis) and sub-cellular damage (DNA double strand breaks) post laser irradiation using confocal laser-scanning microscopy.
Primary authors
Co-author
Prof.
Lothar Lilge
(Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto)
