Patent ID: 7038164

Claim:
A laser head adapted to irradiate an interaction region of an inhabitable structure with laser light to remove material from the structure, the laser head comprising: a housing; an anchoring mechanism reversably coupled to the housing and releasably affixed to the structure by vacuum pressure, the anchoring mechanism releasably holding the laser head at a selected position in relation to the structure; a connector coupled to the housing and optically coupled to a laser generator, the connector adapted to transmit laser light from the laser generator; a first optical element contained in the housing and optically coupled to the connector, the first optical element adapted to receive laser light from the connector and reflect the laser light from the connector through a first non-zero angle; a second optical element contained in the housing and optically coupled to the first optical element, the second optical element adapted to receive laser light from the first optical element and reflect the laser light from the first optical element through a second non-zero angle; and a containment plenum coupled to the housing, the containment plenum optically coupled to the second optical element to receive the laser light from the second optical element, the containment plenum adapted to confine the material and remove the material from the interaction region resulting from irradiating the structure with the laser light.