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    An excimer (originally short for excited dimer) is a short-lived polyatomic molecule formed from two species that do not form a stable molecule in the...
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    An excimer laser, sometimes more correctly called an exciplex laser, is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic...
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  • An excimer lamp (or excilamp) is a source of ultraviolet light based on spontaneous emission of excimer (exciplex) molecules. Excimer lamps are quasimonochromatic...
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    uncomfortable.[citation needed] The second step of the procedure uses an excimer laser (193 nm) to remodel the corneal stroma. The laser vaporizes the tissue...
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    types available: Low-pressure mercury lamps High-pressure mercury lamps Excimer lamps LEDs Low-pressure mercury lamps are very similar to a fluorescent...
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    Excimer laser trabeculostomy (ELT) is a procedure to create holes in the trabecular meshwork to reduce intraocular pressure. It uses a XeCl 308 nm excimer...
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  • light from excimer lasers with wavelengths of 248 (KrF) and 193 (ArF) nm (the dominant lithography technology today is thus also called "excimer laser lithography")...
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    some industrial applications. Excimer lasers are powered by a chemical reaction involving an excited dimer, or excimer, which is a short-lived dimeric...
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    Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that lead to damage of the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the eye to the brain. Glaucoma may...
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    nitrogen trifluoride. Excimer lasers are a special sort of gas laser powered by an electric discharge in which the lasing medium is an excimer, or more precisely...
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    lens implantation or lens replacement. The most common methods today use excimer lasers to reshape the curvature of the cornea. Refractive eye surgeries...
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    PRK permanently change the shape of the anterior central cornea using an excimer laser to ablate (remove by vaporization) a small amount of tissue from...
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    used in flash lamps and arc lamps, and as a general anesthetic. The first excimer laser design used a xenon dimer molecule (Xe2) as the lasing medium, and...
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  • Argon fluoride laser (category Excimer lasers)
    The argon fluoride laser (ArF laser) is a particular type of excimer laser, which is sometimes (more correctly) called an exciplex laser. With its 193-nanometer...
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  • extent for a discovery leading to an improvement of the rare gas halide excimer laser. Hart specialized in the application of supercomputers to the mathematical...
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    are excimer lasers. They are widely used lasers emitting in ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet wavelength ranges. Presently, UV argon-fluoride excimer lasers...
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  • In neurosurgery, excimer laser-assisted non-occlusive anastomosis (ELANA) is a technique used to create a bypass without interrupting the patient's blood...
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    gases are used in excimer lasers, which are based on short-lived electronically excited molecules known as excimers. The excimers used for lasers may...
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    Krypton fluoride laser (category Excimer lasers)
    A krypton fluoride laser (KrF laser) is a particular type of excimer laser, which is sometimes (more correctly) called an exciplex laser. With its 248...
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  • suspended in a gas or liquid containing luminescent gas molecules of the excimer type, constituting a "dust plasma". This permits a nearly lossless emission...
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    the cornea and lifted to allow the excimer laser beam access to the exposed corneal tissue. After that, the excimer laser ablates the tissue according...
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    in the mid-1980s. Deep UV excimer laser photolithography: Invented by Kanti Jain at IBM circa 1980. Prior to this, excimer lasers had been mainly used...
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    Publishing Company.[page needed] Milea, Dan; Burillon, Carole (1999). "Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy in myopic eyes with corectopia". Journal...
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    at 293 K). Pyrene was the first molecule for which excimer behavior was discovered. Such excimer appears around 450 nm. Theodor Förster reported this...
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    Two excited helium atoms can also bond to each other in a form called an excimer. This was discovered from a spectrum of helium that contained bands first...
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  • of a xenon excimer is 1–5 nanoseconds, and the decay releases photons with wavelengths of about 150 and 173 nm. Xenon can also form excimers with other...
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    krypton plasma is useful in bright, high-powered gas lasers (krypton ion and excimer lasers), each of which resonates and amplifies a single spectral line....
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    today, reshaping of the cornea is performed by photoablation using the excimer laser. There are also synthetic corneas (keratoprostheses) in development...
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    in the world. A subset of angioplasty, known as excimer laser coronary angioplasty (ELCA), uses excimer lasers to remove small amounts of tissue, including...
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    Chemical laser Dye laser Bubble Liquid-crystal Gas laser Carbon dioxide Excimer Helium–neon Ion Nitrogen Free-electron laser Laser diode Solid-state laser...
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