Mainster M A, White T J, Tips J H
Appl Opt. 1970 Mar 1;9(3):665-7. doi: 10.1364/AO.9.000665.
A three-dimensional model of corneal thermal response to CO(2) laser radiation is constructed and numerical solutions for temperature rise are computed. Power distribution in the laser beam and a conducting air-cornea interface are considered explicitly. It is found that the radial distribution of temperature increases produced by a gaussian beam is also gaussian, for brief exposures. The corneal damage threshold is examined in terms of this result.