Patent ID: 8366702

Claim:
A surgical system for treating an eye in need of one or more of a physiological and a vision correction, the surgical system comprising: a treatment source suitable for cutting or ablating an anatomic structure of an eye; a measuring device capable of facilitating a determination of a thickness of the anatomic structure; and a delivery system comprising an output end that is configured to facilitate delivery of energy from the treatment source to the anatomic structure in at least one vicinity that is in need of one or more of the physiological and the vision correction and constructed with a structure and connectivity characterized by an adaptation to ablate via the determined thickness more than 90% of the thickness of the anatomic structure but not into an underlying structure to form a tunnel ablation, whereby the output end is configured to provide (i) a spot size greater than about 0.8 mm and (b) a wavelength and power corresponding to the tunnel ablation having a bottom surface with a u-shape or a flattened bottom surface and a radius of curvature greater than about 75 mm.