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QUESTION: In _____ the first dental hard tissue was FDA cleared and is called _______. And the
______ laser a year later. - ANSWER-1997
Er: YAG laser
Er, Cr: YSGG
QUESTION: The word LASER is an acronym standing for _________. - ANSWER-Light
Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
QUESTION: Laser parameters include what 3 things? - ANSWER-1)Duration of exposure
2)Fiber Diameter
3)Wavelength
QUESTION: Lasers are:
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______chromatic?
_____directional?
coherent or noncoherent?
emitted from a stimulated ____________. - ANSWER-monochromatic: made of a single
wavelength (visible or infrared)
unidirectional
coherent (all peaks and valleys of each wave travel in unison)
active medium
QUESTION: What states can the active medium be in? - ANSWER-solid, gas, semiconductor
QUESTION: What type of active medium is used in Er: YAG? - ANSWER-solid state using crystal
matrix (erbium laced yttrium, aluminum and garnet)
QUESTION: What type of gas is used when the active medium is sealed in an air tight chamber?
- ANSWER-CO2
QUESTION: Diode lasers have what type of active medium? - ANSWER-semiconductor
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QUESTION: what photons form the laser? - ANSWER-light that leaks from the output coupler
Q; Theorized the concept of stimulated emission - ANSWER-Einstein
QUESTION: Theorized that an excited electron will spontaneously return to its ground state -
ANSWER-Bohr
QUESTION: First ruby laser was created in _____ by ______. - ANSWER-1960, Ted Maiman
QUESTION: _________ reported in 1965 that a ruby laser could vaporize enamel. - ANSWER-
Stern and Sognnaes
QUESTION: First pulsed Nd:YAG laser released in ______ and cuts ______ tissue. - ANSWER-
1990, soft tissue
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