Title :
High intensity effects in biological and medical samples
Author :
Dagen, Aaron J. ; Alfano, Robert R. ; Swenberg, Charles E.
Author_Institution :
Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Danbury, CT, USA
fDate :
12/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Intense excitation sources are known to cause nonlinear optical effects in biological samples. Similarly, high power lasers, used as medical and surgical tools, can induce nonlinear processes in tissues. In this paper we describe and research the theory of one such high intensity effect: bimolecular singlet-singlet exciton annihilation.
Keywords :
Laser biomedical applications; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Chemical lasers; Excitons; Fluorescence; Kinetic theory; Laser excitation; Laser fusion; Laser theory; Quantum mechanics;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1984.1072346
