Laser stripping is a process which typically includes different forms of ablation phenomena. The presented work investigates mechanical using high pressure laser-induced shock waves in water confined regime. Power density studied as parameter for selective laser on painted specimens and adhesion relations with single layer epoxy targets. A flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG fixed spot size (4 mm) shot sev...

Dye-laser technology has seen very significant progress over the last 39 years since the first demonstration of this device technology. Dye lasers offer efficient emission in the visible and near-infrared bands by direct generation of laser light. The initial emphasis was on the liquid-phase technology, and is the one very successful liquid laser. More recently the research emphasis has been so...

Lupus pernio of the nose is the most characteristic cutaneous lesion of sarcoidosis. It is cosmetically disfiguring and can be the cause of significant morbidity. In particular, the affected skin is often red or purple due to increased vasculature. It is particularly resistant to both surgical and medical therapy. We describe a patient with lupus pernio affecting her nose, which showed a dramat...

Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (IL VEN) is a benign hyperplasia of the epidermis of unknown cause that most commonly occurs on the lower extremities.l ? The lesion usually appears in early childhood and is persistent and pruritic. Treatments for ILVEN have been associated with high rates ofrecurrence and/or scarring. This is the first report of successful treatment of ILVEN with ...

"In the years immediately following the invention of the laser, its potential for application to the study of a broad class of physical and chemical problems was perceived by many people. However, the use of early lasers in these studies was severely constrained by the limited number of available wavelengths. In 1966 P. P. Sorokin and, independently, F. P. Schafer, demonstrated that stimulated ...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is becoming a more mature technology every year with new variants such as laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry, reheating by various discharge techniques, and multiple pulse excitation schemes, in which sometimes lasers of different lengths are used. However, inherent parameters like length repetition rate still almost exclusively employed. ...

BACKGROUND The flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser (585 and 577 nm) has proven to be a very effective and safe treatment option in the therapy of essential telangiectasias (ETE). Nevertheless, the postoperative intracutaneous hematomata, which most patients see as cosmetically disfiguring, always has been a matter of concern. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy and safety of a new, large spot size, ...