Photonics Design & Solutions: Medical Technology Borrows from Industrial Laser Systems
Just as cutting, welding and drilling are industrial applications, so are they medical applications. Lasers that enable machine tools also enable, in skilled hands, delicate surgical instruments. The laser’s industrial roots took hold long before its surgical ones, just as crude spears and hammers appeared in history long before scalpels: Finesse is harder to develop. Now, however, the medical device industry is catching up, developing and refining surgical instruments for precision....
Photonics Spectra, February 2000