Experimental setup for measuring the refractivity of eye lenses during simulated accommodation

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) of a porcine vocal fold

fs-laser cut pattern in a porcine eye

Short-time photography of two cavitation bubbles in water resulting from focused fs-laser pulses

Main Work Areas

• Imaging using optical coherence tomography (OCT)
• Exogen-dye-free laser microscopy Lasermikroskopie
• OCT-image-guided eye surgery using fs-lasers
• High-speed photography of laser-tissue interaction
• Focus forming using adaptive optics
• Laser-optical stimulation in the cochlea

Investigations on pulse-to-pulse interaction for optimizing cutting of highly-repetitive fs-laser systems for medical applications  (DFG):

• Optimization of fs-laser applications on biological tissue
• Influence of pulse-overlapping of modern laser systems on the cut quality
• Short-time photography of cavitation bubble interaction

• Increasing the accommodation distance
• Finite-Element-Simulation and experiments
• OCT-control of cutting in a lens stretcher

• Cochlea implant with laser-optical stimulation
• Opto-acoustic or neuronal interaction
• Application parameters and applicatior design

• 3-D microscopic presentation of anatomy, function and metabolism of cellularized micro- and nanostructures and their environment
• Multi-photon microscopy, in-vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy, optical coherence tomography

• Prototype for the treatment of cataract and presbyopia
• OCT image-assisted cutting
• Adaptive optical focus forming for vitreo-retinal cuts

• Combination of video-laryngoscopy and OCT
• Autofocus and motion compensation
• OCT laryngoscopy on a patient without the use of anesthetics