The present invention relates to an ophthalmic treatment device and a method for operating the same. The present invention provides an ophthalmic treatment device and a method for operating the same, the ophthalmic treatment device comprising: a treatment beam generation unit for generating a treatment beam; a beam delivery unit for forming a path along which the treatment beam generated from the treatment generation unit is delivered to a treatment area positioned on the fundus; a monitoring unit for emitting a detecting beam along the path of delivery of the treatment beam and sensing treatment area state information on the basis of information regarding a change in speckle of the detecting beam, which is scattered and reflected from the treatment area; and a control unit for controlling the driving of the treatment beam generation unit on the basis of the treatment area state information sensed by the monitoring unit.

The present invention relates to an ophthalmic treatment apparatus and a control method therefor, and provides an ophthalmic treatment apparatus and a control method therefor, the ophthalmic treatment apparatus comprising: a setting unit formed so as to set a treatment mode; a therapeutic light emission unit emitting therapeutic light at a target position of an eyeground multiple times so as to perform treatment; a monitoring unit for monitoring information on the state of the target position by the therapeutic light during the emission of the therapeutic light; and a control unit for determining whether a treatment intensity according to the treatment mode has been reached, by using the information monitored by the monitoring unit, and for controlling an operation of the therapeutic light emission unit on the basis of the determination.

A method for forming deep corneal lamellar incision parallel to the posterior corneal surface when the eye is docked to the patient interface. A lower-energy detecting beam generated by the same pulsed laser that generates the higher-energy treatment laser beam is utilized to measure the posterior corneal surface profile. The detecting beam is scanned in the eye according to a first 3-dimensional scan pattern, while intensity of the back-reflected light is measured by a light intensity detector. The first scan pattern may be a spiral pattern in the X-Y plane coupled with a Z direction oscillation function. Peaks of the light intensity signal are detected, and corresponding spatial positions of the focus point are obtained; a known offset distance is added to the depth value to obtain the posterior corneal surface profile. Based thereon, the treatment laser beam is scanned in the eye to form the deep corneal lamellar incision.

An apparatus for producing incisions in an interior of an eye. For example, the apparatus includes an image recording device that records at least part of the image field and an image evaluation device that evaluates recordings of the image recording device and produces signals for the control device and/or the operator. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing incisions in the interior of an eye, wherein an image recording device is used to record at least part of the image field and an image evaluation device evaluates the recordings of the image recording device and produces signals for the control device and/or the operator.

An ophthalmic laser surgical system includes a pulsed laser source configured to generate a pulsed laser beam, optics configured to direct the laser beam towards a target region in a lens of an eye, and a processor configured to control the optics to form a regular array of cells in the target region by creating layers of photodisrupted bubbles to generate cell boundaries. The layers are created by causing the optics to scan the pulsed laser according to a curvature of a focal plane of the optics to track a natural curvature of the lens.

An apparatus includes an optical unit (30), including a light source (66), one or more beam-directing elements (50, 56), and a radiation source (48). The radiation source is configured to irradiate an eye (25) of a patient (22) with one or more treatment beams (52) by emitting the treatment beams toward the beam-directing elements, while the eye fixates on the light source by virtue of the light source transmitting visible light (68). The apparatus further includes an optical filter (70) configured to inhibit passage of the treatment beams, but not the visible light, therethrough, while interposing between the beam-directing elements and a pupil (104) of the eye. Other embodiments are also described.

A laser surgery system includes a light source, an eye interface device, a scanning assembly, a confocal detection assembly and preferably a confocal bypass assembly. The light source generates an electromagnetic beam. The scanning assembly scans a focal point of the electromagnetic beam to different locations within the eye. An optical path propagates the electromagnetic beam from a light source to the focal point, and also propagates a portion of the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location back along at least a portion of the optical path. The optical path includes an optical element associated with a confocal detection assembly that diverts a portion of the reflected electromagnetic radiation to a sensor. The sensor generates an intensity signal indicative of intensity the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location. The confocal bypass assembly reversibly diverts the electromagnetic beam along a diversion optical path around the optical element.

Systems and methods for performing laser operations on the structures of the eye, including the drain angle, trabecular mesh and the area of the eye where the iris and cornea meet. Laser systems and methods for treating glaucoma. Laser assisted MIGS procedures.

In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic diagnostic system includes a laser source, a galvanometer, and a system inverting controller (SIC) coupled to the galvanometer. The galvanometer includes one or more optical elements and one or more galvanometer controllers configured to manipulate an orientation of the one or more optical elements to scan the output of the laser source across an ophthalmic target based on galvanometer control signals. The system inverting controller (SIC) is configured to modify input galvanometer control signals based on an estimated transfer function of the galvanometer and provide the modified galvanometer control signals to the galvanometer.

Embodiments of this invention generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for creating synchronized three-dimensional laser incisions. In an embodiment, an ophthalmic surgical laser system comprises a laser delivery system for delivering a pulsed laser beam to a target in a subject's eye, an XY-scan device to deflect the pulsed laser beam, a Z-scan device to modify a depth of a focus of the pulsed laser beam, and a controller configured to synchronize an oscillation of the XY-scan device and an oscillation of the Z-device to form an angled three-dimensional laser tissue dissection.