Patent ID: 8603079

Claim:
A surgical system for treating an eye in need of a physiological or vision correction, comprising: a source of treatment energy for cutting or ablating an anatomic structure of an eye; a measuring device for facilitating a determination of a thickness of the anatomic structure; and a delivery system having an output end configured to facilitate delivery of treatment energy from the source to an area of the anatomic structure in need of a physiological or vision correction; wherein the delivery system responds to the measuring device by ablating more than 90% of the thickness of the anatomic structure, but not an underlying structure, to form a tunnel ablation; and wherein the output end (a) provides a spot size of 0.8 mm or less and (b) applies a wavelength and power corresponding to the tunnel ablation having a bottom surface with a u-shape or a flattened bottom and a radius of curvature less than about 75 mm.