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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.
Inventor: John Park , Qing Xiang , Ravi Durvasula , Ronald T. Smith
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.
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公开(公告)号:US12011393B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
申请号:US17647660
申请日:2022-01-11
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Gerald David Bacher , Nikki Koe , Bruno Lassalas , Alireza Mirsepassi , Dean Richardson , Ronald T. Smith
CPC classification number: A61F9/00821 , A61B18/22 , G02B27/10 , A61B2018/2266 , A61F2009/00863
Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for sensing occlusions in an optical system includes a first laser source configured to generate optical signals and a set of optical elements arranged to receive the optical signals from the first laser source and to direct the optical signals along a beam path. The system also includes a detector arranged to receive reflections of the optical signals traveling along at least a portion of the beam path and a control system communicably coupled to the detector. The control system is configured to detect, based on signals generated by the detector, reflection signals associated with the reflections of the optical signals, and disable a second laser source based on detection of the reflection signals.
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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.
Inventor: John Park , Ronald T. Smith
CPC classification number: A61B90/30 , A61B3/13 , G02B21/0012 , G02B21/06 , G02B21/361 , A61B2090/306
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.
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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.
Inventor: Ronald T. Smith , Alireza Mirsepassi , Neda Dadashzadeh , Yuchao Liu , Conrad Sawicz
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11779427B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-10
申请号:US16217346
申请日:2018-12-12
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Jochen Horn , Alireza Mirsepassi , Ronald T. Smith
IPC: A61B90/30 , G02B27/42 , G02B27/14 , G02B3/00 , A61F9/008 , A61B18/24 , A61B18/20 , A61B18/22 , A61N5/06 , A61N5/067
CPC classification number: A61B90/30 , A61B18/20 , A61B18/24 , A61F9/00821 , A61F9/00823 , G02B3/0087 , G02B27/14 , G02B27/425 , A61B2018/2211 , A61B2018/2244 , A61B2018/2261 , A61B2090/306 , A61F2009/00863 , A61N5/067 , A61N2005/0663
Abstract: Systems and methods for creating multi-spot laser light beams, multiplexing an illumination light and the multi-spot laser light beams, and delivering the multiplexed light to a surgical handpiece via a multi-core optical fiber cable.
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公开(公告)号:US11751970B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US18052295
申请日:2022-11-03
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Alireza Mirsepassi , Ronald T. Smith , Michael J. Papac , Chenguang Diao
IPC: A61B90/30 , G02B6/24 , G02B6/26 , A61B90/00 , A61F9/007 , G02B5/02 , F21V8/00 , A61B1/07 , A61B1/00 , A61B17/00
CPC classification number: A61B90/30 , A61B90/36 , A61F9/007 , G02B5/021 , G02B5/0242 , G02B5/0247 , G02B6/0008 , G02B6/241 , G02B6/262 , A61B1/0011 , A61B1/00096 , A61B1/07 , A61B17/00 , A61B2017/00526 , A61B2090/306
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.
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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.
Inventor: John Park , Qing Xiang , Ravi Durvasula , Ronald T. Smith
CPC classification number: A61F9/008 , A61F9/00763 , A61F2009/00897 , A61F2009/00844
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.
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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.
Inventor: Alireza Mirsepassi , Ronald T. Smith , Michael J. Papac , Chenguang Diao
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.
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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.
Inventor: Bruno Lassalas , Mark Harrison Farley , Alireza Mirsepassi , Ronald T. Smith
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.
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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.
Inventor: Alireza Mirsepassi , Mark Harrison Farley , Ronald T. Smith
IPC: G02B27/09
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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