OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING SURGICAL INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20250025341A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18909382

    申请日:2024-10-08

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: In certain embodiments, an optical system for obtaining surgical information includes a probe housing a first optical fiber, a light source, a photoanalyzer, and an optical circulator optically coupled to each of the first optical fiber, the light source, and the photoanalyzer. The optical circulator has a first port configured to receive source light generated from the light source, a second port configured to transmit the source light from the first port to the first optical fiber, and a third port configured to transmit return light in the first optical fiber from the second port to the photoanalyzer. The first optical fiber is configured to emit at least a portion of the source light in the first optical fiber from the probe to contact a body structure, and collect light returning from the body structure as a result of the portion of the source light contacting the body structure.

    ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR SURGICAL MICROSCOPE WITH TUNABLE COAXIAL AND OBLIQUE BEAMS

    公开(公告)号:US20240115345A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-11

    申请号:US18480612

    申请日:2023-10-04

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: A surgical microscope is configured to capture images of an eye of a patient and defines an optical axis. An illumination source is configured to emit a plurality of beams onto the eye of the patient at a plurality of angles relative to the optical axis. A controller is coupled to the surgical microscope and the illumination source, the controller configured to independently control values for illumination parameters for each beam of the plurality of beams to facilitate imaging of the eye of the patient. The illumination parameters may compensate for reflections from the iris, offset of the eye relative to the optical axis, and reflections of ambient light. The illumination parameters may be controlled subject to inputs received from a surgeon or other user.

    TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING A SAFETY TEST OF A LASER DIODE OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230414413A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18329929

    申请日:2023-06-06

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    CPC classification number: A61F9/00823 A61F9/00825 A61B3/1015

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing a safety test of a laser diode associated with an ophthalmic surgical apparatus. An example method determining a measured slope efficiency of the laser diode based on a plurality of different current levels applied to an input of the laser diode and a plurality of different output power levels associated with the laser diode, determining an expected slope efficiency of the laser diode based on a measured operating temperature of the ophthalmic surgical apparatus, determining a result of the safety test of the laser diode based on the measured slope efficiency of the laser diode and the expected slope efficiency for the laser diode, and outputting an electrical signal indicating a result of the safety test of the laser diode.

    OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING SURGICAL INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230181364A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US18062639

    申请日:2022-12-07

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: In certain embodiments, an optical system for obtaining surgical information includes a probe housing a first optical fiber, a light source, a photoanalyzer, and an optical circulator optically coupled to each of the first optical fiber, the light source, and the photoanalyzer. The optical circulator has a first port configured to receive source light generated from the light source, a second port configured to transmit the source light from the first port to the first optical fiber, and a third port configured to transmit return light in the first optical fiber from the second port to the photoanalyzer. The first optical fiber is configured to emit at least a portion of the source light in the first optical fiber from the probe to contact a body structure, and collect light returning from the body structure as a result of the portion of the source light contacting the body structure.

    METHOD OF MAKING DIVERGING-LIGHT FIBER OPTICS ILLUMINATION DELIVERY SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230085961A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-23

    申请号:US18052295

    申请日:2022-11-03

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: A process of making a diverging-light fiber optics illumination delivery system includes providing a micro-post comprising a glass-ceramic light-scattering element that includes at least one of a ceramic, a glass ceramic, an immiscible glass, a porous glass, opal glass, amorphous glass, an aerated glass, and a nanostructured glass; and fusion-splicing the glass-ceramic micro-post to the optical fiber by pulling an arc between electrodes across a gap formed by the optical fiber and the glass-ceramic micro-post; maintaining the arc for a time sufficiently long to make facing surfaces of the optical fiber and the micro-post one of malleable and molten; and pushing and thereby fusing together the facing surfaces of the optical fiber and the micro-post. Some embodiments can include fusing the glass-ceramic micro-post to the optical fiber by applying a laser beam to heat up at least one of the facing surfaces of the optical fiber and the glass-ceramic micro-post.

    Aligning multi-wavelength laser beams with cores of a multi-core fiber

    公开(公告)号:US11432963B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16884262

    申请日:2020-05-27

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: Particular embodiments disclosed herein provide a surgical laser system comprising first laser source configured to emit a first laser beam with a first wavelength and a second laser source configured to emit a second laser beam with a second wavelength. The surgical laser system further comprises a first diffraction optical element (DOE) tuned to the first wavelength and a second DOE tuned to the second wavelength, wherein the first DOE is configured to diffract the first laser beam into one or more first diffracted beams at a diffraction angle and the second DOE is configured to diffract the second laser beam into one or more second diffracted beams at the same diffraction angle. The surgical laser system further comprises one or more beam splitters configured to reflect the one or more first diffracted beams and the one or more second diffracted beams onto a lens.

    BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PROBE WITH MULTI-CORE FIBER

    公开(公告)号:US20250028180A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18760157

    申请日:2024-07-01

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    Abstract: A beam delivery system for a probe includes a plurality of laser sources configured to generate a respective incident beam, including a first laser source generating a first incident beam and a second laser source generating a second incident beam. The system includes routing structures respectively positioned along a path of the respective incident beam. An optical subsystem is adapted to sequentially direct a respective output beam from the routing structures into each core of a multi-core fiber in communication with the probe. The first routing structure and the second routing structure respectively include an array of optical elements adapted to be synchronously moved such that the first incident beam and the second incident beam encounter an identical member of the array at a same time.

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