Patent ID: 9550069
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61N

Claim:
1. A method of irradiating extracellular macular deposits through a cornea of an eye utilizing laser pulses, comprising: generating laser pulses of between about 1 femtosecond to 1,000,000 femtoseconds in a wavelength range from about 200 nanometers to 30 micrometers at an optical energy in a range of about 0.001 nJ to 100 mJ per laser pulse; irradiating the extracellular macular deposits with the laser pulses for a preset temporal duration, energy, wavelength, spectral distribution, energy fluence, and power density; and automatically focussing a focal spot of the laser pulses on the extracellular macular deposits below a top retinal tissue layer utilizing 3D beam translators; whereby, the laser pulses are adapted to target and remove the extracellular macular deposits without ablating or creating an incision in the top retinal tissue layer.