Abstract
An beam-propagation method was used to build a first-order mathematical model of a thermal lens effect from a near-infrared laser beam in water and ocular media. The model was found to fit experimental z-scan data best when the thermo-optic coefficient of liquid water at was . The physiological parameters of the human eye were simulated in a simple eye model using this fitted value. Conservative model simulations for 1150 and laser radiation include parameter sets used in experimental ocular exposures performed by Zuclich et al. [Health Phys. 92, 15 (2007)] to illustrate the transient response of the thermal lens approaching the limits of the retinal damage thresholds for equivalent laser radiation sources.
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Rebecca L. Vincelette, Robert J. Thomas, Benjamin A. Rockwell, Clifton D. Clark, III, and Ashley J. Welch, "First-order model of thermal lensing in a virtual eye: errata," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27, 1202-1202 (2010)https://opg.optica.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?uri=josaa-27-5-1202
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