Patent ID: 8764737

Claim:
A laser surgical system, comprising: i. a pulsed laser to produce a laser beam of laser pulses; ii. an optics module configured to receive the laser beam, to focus and direct the laser beam into a lens of an eye at a depth of 4-8 mm to photodisrupt the lens, and to scan the laser beam over a depth range of 4-8 mm; iii. an applanation plate operable to be in contact with the eye to produce an interface and to transmit laser pulses to the target and reflected or scattered light or sound from the target through the interface; iv. an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging device configured to direct OCT light to and capture reflected OCT light from the lens of the eye at a depth of 4-8 mm, with a depth range of 4-8 mm, and to create an image of the lens of the eye; and v. a system control module to process imaging information on the image from the imaging device and to control the optics module to adjust the laser beam focus to the eye based on the imaging information, wherein the optics module comprises a surgical laser beam scanner for scanning the surgical laser beam, and the OCT imaging device comprises a separate optics module for controlling and scanning the OCT light, such that the surgical laser beam and the OCT imaging light are scanned separately from each other.