Applications: Medical

QPC’s high brightness semiconductor laser technology is enabling diode lasers to be used directly in a new range of medical applications where previously gas or solid state lasers were the only solution.

A variety of medical applications today utilize diode lasers as either pump lasers or as direct diode sources for treatment because of their compact size, efficiency, low cost and ability to produce large optical energies. Hair removal, dental, ophthalmic, and other dermatological applications utilize diode laser light directly. The wavelength of the light is critical to the treatment efficacy, and laser illuminator is chosen to match the absorption of various skin, blood or organ constituents, or that of an injected dye. In many cases, the light is delivered through a fiber by way of a catheter or scope which needs to be extremely small, resulting in the need for high brightness fiber coupled diode lasers.