Patent ID: 9474447
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A surgical probe, comprising: a fixed outer cannula; an inner cannula disposed inside the fixed outer cannula and operable to rotate relative to the fixed outer cannula; a rotational scanner coupled to an end of the inner cannula, the rotational scanner configured to receive a light beam from a delivery fiber and to focus the light beam along the path of a loop as the rotational scanner rotates due to the rotation of the inner cannula; and an anamorphic optical element coupled to an end of the fixed outer cannula and configured to receive the light beam focused along the path of the loop by the rotational scanner and to further focus the light beam along an anisotropically compressed loop falling in a plane distal to a distal most end of the surgical probe, the anamorphic optical element comprising: