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Understanding the Instruments: Intracorporeal Lithotripsy—Laser
- Authors
- Kim, Ji Won; Cho, Sung Yong
- Issue Date
- Jan-2021
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Keywords
- Laser; Minimally invasive surgical procedures; Nephrolithotomy; Percutaneous; Ureteroscopy; Urinary calculi; Urolithiasis
- Citation
- Practical Management of Urinary Stone, pp 57 - 64
- Pages
- 8
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- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Practical Management of Urinary Stone
- Start Page
- 57
- End Page
- 64
- Abstract
- Laser is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” The main structure of a laser system includes a pumping source, an optical oscillator, and a laser amplifier. The optical oscillator generally consists of an optical resonator with mirrors and an amplifier. The laser beam is generated by stimulated emission. The Ho:YAG laser used in the urology field is a flash-lamped pumping Q-switched laser system, but a thulium fiber laser is a diode laser pumping master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. The lasers mainly used in the urology field are the neodymium-doped YAG (Nd:YAG) laser frequency-converted to 532 nm by potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP), the thulium- or holmium-doped YAG (Tm:YAG or Ho:YAG) laser at 2013 nm or 2120 nm, and the thulium- doped double-clad fiber (Tm fiber) laser © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021. All rights reserved.
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