In some examples, a distributed acoustic detector system may include a frame structure and multiple acoustic detectors. The frame structure may be configured to be retained in a laser-based ophthalmo-logical surgical system aligned to an eye of a patient during therapeutic treatment of the eye of the patient with the laser-based ophthalmological surgical system. The acoustic detectors may be coupled to the frame structure and may be spaced apart from each other and electrically separated from each other.

An ophthalmological device for refractive correction of a cornea comprises a laser source, a focusing optical module, a scanner system and an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit is configured to control the scanner system to move the focal spot of the pulsed laser beam generated by the laser source to generate a first part of a void volume ablating cornea tissue inside the first part of the void volume, and to generate a separated second part of the void volume by separating the second part of the void volume as piece of cornea tissue to be removed from the void volume through an incision in the cornea, whereby at least a part of the separated second part is separated from the cornea by the ablated first part.

Embodiments of this invention generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for lenticular laser incision. 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 form a top lenticular incision and a bottom lenticular incision of a lens in the subject's eye, or just a bottom lenticular incision.

The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for determining a laser parameter set for corneal refractive surgery. The apparatus may include an autorefractor configured to obtain at least two ocular measurement parameters for an eye and to obtain a post-operative refraction of the eye. The apparatus may include a user interface configured to obtain a target refraction for the eye. The apparatus may include a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the user interface, the autorefractor, and the memory. The processor may be configured to determine the laser parameter set based on an algorithm using the at least two ocular measurement parameters. The processor may be configured to correlate the at least two ocular measurement parameters, the laser parameter set, and the post-operative refraction as a training set.

For the purposes of working on eye tissue, an ophthalmological apparatus comprises a laser source that is configured to produce a pulsed laser beam, a focusing optical unit that is configured to focus the pulsed laser beam into the eye tissue, and a scanner system for deflecting the pulsed laser beam onto work target points in the eye tissue. The scanner system is configured to guide the pulsed laser beam onto work target points along a scan line that extends across a work line at an alignment angle and to tilt the scan line depending on the work target point on the work line in such a way that the scan line extends substantially along an outer face of a lenticule to be cut in the eye tissue.

A system for treating an eye includes a laser light source providing photoactivating light. The system includes a scanning system to receive the photoactivating light as a laser beam and to move the laser beam over a cornea treated with a cross-linking agent. The system includes a controller that provides control signal(s) to programmatically control the laser light source and the scanning system. The control signal(s) cause the laser beam to visit region(s) of the cornea more than once according to a scan pattern and expose the region(s) to the photoactivating light. The photoactivating light causes the cross-linking agent in the exposed region(s) to react with oxygen to generate cross-linking activity in the exposed region(s). The scan pattern causes a predetermined period of time to pass between visits by the laser beam to the exposed region(s), the predetermined period of time allowing oxygen in the exposed region(s) to replenish.

A method and system perform an ophthalmic procedure on an eye having an optical path from the lens to the retina. An image of at least part of the eye is received in a data processing unit. The image includes the optical path. The data processing unit determines keep out zone(s) and identifies undesirable feature(s) based on the image. The keep out zone(s) include the retina. The data processing unit also selects one of the undesirable feature(s) for removal. At least part of the undesirable feature is outside of the keep out zone(s). Confirmation for removal of the undesirable feature is received in the data processing unit. In response to receiving the confirmation, a control unit controls a laser to perform laser removal the at least the portion of the undesirable feature without targeting any portion of the keep out zone(s).

The present invention relates to an apparatus for cutting-out including a device for treating a L.A.S.E.R. beam generated by a femtosecond laser (1), and positioned downstream from said femtosecond laser, the treatment device comprising: a shaping system (3) positioned on the trajectory of said beam, for modulating the phase of the wave front of the L.A.S.E.R. beam according to a modulation set value calculated for distributing the energy of the L.A.S.E.R. beam in at least two impact points forming a pattern in its focal plane, an optical focusing system (5) downstream from the shaping system, the optical focusing system comprising a concentrator module for focusing the phase-modulated L.A.S.E.R. beam in a focusing plane and a depth-positioning module for displacing the focusing plane into a plurality of cutting-out planes, a sweeping optical scanner (4) positioned between the concentrator module and the depth-positioning module for displacing the pattern in the cutting-out plane in a plurality of positions.

An ophthalmic apparatus includes an interference optical system, an optical scanner controller, and a correction controller. The interference optical system includes an astigmatism correction optical member and an optical scanner, and is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to irradiate the measurement light onto the subject’s eye via the astigmatism correction optical member and the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the measurement light from the subject’s eye and the reference light. The optical scanner controller is configured to control the optical scanner so as to deflect the measurement light in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the interference optical system. The correction controller is configured to control the astigmatism correction optical member so as to correct astigmatism based on a detection result of the interference light obtained by the interference optical system.

A method of determining control parameters of a retinal treatment system comprising acquiring an image of a retina of a subject's eye using an imaging laser and an optical system of the retinal treatment system, presenting an image of the retina to a user of the retinal treatment system, receiving from the user location data of the retinal image that locates at least one treatment site of the retina, receiving from the user a required laser light pattern for use on the treatment site, using the location data to determine a location control parameter which causes the optical system to direct laser light from a treatment laser of the retinal treatment system to the treatment site, and using the required laser light pattern to determine a pattern control parameter which causes the treatment laser to produce a laser light pattern which passes through the optical system and results in the required laser light pattern at the treatment site.