Applicator for the treatment of an elevated internal ocular pressure by means of laser radiation

US5514125A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Stiftung · DE

Inventors

• Theo Lasser · Crissier, CH
• Peter Schaffer · Phoenixville, US
• Peter Reimer · Ellwangen, DE
• Klaus Gottwaldt · Oberkochen, DE
• Joachim Hug · Oberkochen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 1995
• Grant date: May 7, 1996
• Expiry date: Jan 9, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3624
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An applicator for treatment of an elevated internal ocular pressure by means of laser radiation has a handpiece, which releasably surrounds a fiber optic light guide on its exit side end. A sleeve portion is releasably connected to the exit side end of the light guide, a condensing optical element being provided in the sleeve portion, optically dimensioned and arranged in the sleeve portion at a distance from the exit side end of the light guide such that the applied laser radiation can be focused in the ciliary body of the eye on contact of the sleeve portion with the surface of the eye.