Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications Iii Book

	Conference Committee
	Fiber lasers: materials, structures and technologies	1
	Rare-earth oxide: aluminum oxide glasses for midrange IR devices	16
	Combined fiber optic confocal microscopy for noninvasive optical sensing	23
	Applications of a fiber-based phase-sensitive optical low-coherence reflectometer	29
	Transendoscopic laser-based surgical procedure within body cavities	34
	Microfabricated optical fiber with a microiens that produces large field-of-view video-rate optical beam scanning for microendoscopy applications	46
	Infrared medical laser system with hollow optical fibers	56
	Calculi fragmentation of Er:YAG laser light through a sealed flexible hollow fiber delivery system
	Fiber optic confocal microendoscope as a daughter scope for clinical endoscopy	70
	Infrared hollow glass fiber produced by fiber drawing technique	79
	Side- and end-illumination of polymer optical fibers in the UV region	84
	Status and improvements of UV laser scalpel	92
	Metal sulfide coatings for hollow glass waveguides	97
	Characterization of hollow silica infrared waveguides	104
	Hollow waveguide infrared gas sensing for biomedical applications	116
	Midinfrared laser absorption spectroscopy in coiled hollow optical waveguides	124
	Gas analysis in the UV region using a long-length hollow core waveguide	134
	Influence of fiber optic probe geometry on the origin of detected fluorescence: experimental validation of computational results	142
	Optical heterodyne surface plasmon resonance biosensor	149
	Multilayered self-assembled optical fiber sensors for biomedical applications	157
	Fiber optic temperature sensors for medical applications	162
	Hollow waveguide delivery system for ophthalmology treatment	170
	Delivery of high-energy radiation in midinfrared spectral region by hollow waveguides	178
	Prototype system of laser transillumination computed tomography for early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
	Addendum	191
	Author Index	193