A device for illuminating a treatment site, such as a human eye comprises a) an applicator and a b) Illumination light source for generating illuminating light (BL), c) wherein the applicator comprises a hollow needle with a distal end and with a target at the distal end and with an opening at the distal end, d) wherein the applicator has an optical fiber guided in the hollow needle to the distal end with a free end oriented towards the target, e) wherein laser pulses (LP) can be transmitted via the light guide, which emerge from the light guide at the free end and strike the target and generate a plasma (P) in front of a target surface of the target, f) whereby the treatment site to be illuminated is located in the area at the opening and the plasma is intended for direct or indirect treatment at the treatment site.

An ophthalmic assembly includes a frame, flange, and light emitter. The frame supports an optical lens. A first end of the flange is connected to the frame. A second end of the flange rests on a pars plana region of the sclera of a patient's eye. The light emitter is connected to the flange proximate the second end to direct light into a vitreous cavity of the patient's eye. This occurs through the sclera at the pars plana region and uniformly illuminates the vitreous. A transscleral illumination system includes the ophthalmic assembly and a processor in communication with the light emitter. A setting of the light emitter may be controllable via the processor, e.g., in response to a user input signal.

An ophthalmic surgical cutting apparatus for cutting biological material including a handle, an outer tube attached to the handle and having a closed tip, a port formed in a side wall of the outer tube with a cusp formed by two or more intersecting surfaces, and an inner tube slidable within the outer tube and having a longitudinal axis and an open tip. The inner tube is in fluid communication with the handle, and the cusp of the port and the open tip interface during a cutting motion to fracture and cut biological materials and direct cut materials radially inward into the port.

Embodiments disclosed herein provide an optical fiber system. The optical fiber system includes an aspiration tube, an optical fiber external to the aspiration tube, and a sleeve surrounding the optical fiber and the aspiration tube. The sleeve includes a distal portion that defines a channel. The channel extends between the aspiration tube and a distal opening of the sleeve. The channel and the aspiration tube define an aspiration pathway. The optical fiber is partially disposed within the channel.

A system for performing ophthalmic surgery includes a robotic positioning system including an end effector. The robotic positioning system is configured to position the end effector with at least five degrees of freedom. An ophthalmic surgical instrument is mounted to the end effector along with an accessory device configured to facilitate performance of an ophthalmic treatment by the ophthalmic surgical instrument. The robotic positioning system may be controlled to enforce anatomical boundaries and implement predefined motion profiles.

Images of a patient's eye can be imaged and the images processed to detect and track floaters within the patient's eye. The floater detection and tracking can be used to identify characteristics of the floaters as well as possibly perform laser treatment of the floaters.

A device and a method for the femtosecond laser surgery of tissue, especially in the vitreous humor of the eye. The device includes an ultrashort pulse laser with pulse widths in the range of approximately 10 fs-1 ps, especially approximately 300 fs, pulse energies in the range of approximately 5 nJ-5 J, especially approximately 1-2 J and pulse repetition rates of approximately 10 kHz-10 MHz, especially 500 kHz. The laser system is coupled to a scanner system which allows the spatial variation of the focus in three dimensions (x, y and z). In addition to the therapeutic laser/scanner optical system, the device includes a navigation system.

A method for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue, comprises the step of providing laser pulses with a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency from 50 kHz to 1 MHz and with a wavelength between 600 and 2000 nm for acting on the material to be worked. Apparatus, in accordance with the invention, for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue comprising a pulsed laser, wherein the laser has a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency of from 50 kHz to 1 MHz is also described.

An arrangement for OCT-based laser treatment of vitreous floaters. The arrangement for OCT-based laser vitreolysis includes an OCT system, a laser system having a deflection unit, optical elements that couple the OCT system and the laser system, a display unit and a central control and operating unit. The OCT system is configured to localize the floaters, the laser system is configured to destroy the floaters by application of laser pulses and the central control and operating unit is configured to determine apart from the coordinates of the localized floaters also their distance to structures of the eye, to derive exclusion criteria for the treatment, to align the deflection unit of the laser system to these coordinates and to focus and activate the laser system. The present invention relates to an arrangement for the gentle, low risk and painless laser treatment of vitreous floaters, which enables partially or fully automated therapy.

Images of a patient's eye can be imaged and the images processed to detect and track floaters within the patient's eye. The floater detection and tracking can be used to identify characteristics of the floaters as well as possibly perform laser treatment of the floaters.