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For those who work in laser technology in fields of laser physics, communication, drilling and welding, it may be of interest to remind them that the effects of the laser on living tissue are quite different. A high energy ruby laser can put a large hole in a copper sheet and then produce only a superficial charring of a large wart on the knee of a patient. Even in the early days of laser research, a focussed beam of a low energy laser was able to make a hole in a razor blade and yet the same energy density had no effect on the normal Caucasian skin of the forearm.
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Goldman, L. (1967). Basic Mechanisms of Laser Action on Living Tissue. In: Biomedical Aspects of the Laser. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85797-3_8
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