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I find myself addressing this question with customers on an almost weekly basis, so I thought I would blog about it since many of you likely have the same questions: Who the heck needs a 200 μm core fiber? And if they’re so great, why don’t other companies make one? OK, I admit it; I added the second half of the question to sing the praises of InnovaQuartz versus the competition one more time…. As to why a 200 μm core fiber has utility, the answer is simple enough: The Answer? FLEXIBILITY   True 200 μm fibers are more flexible...

It has come to our attention that holmium fibers for Trimedyne lasers are in short supply. We are happy to step in and serve this unmet need. You should have switched long ago to save blast shields... Our ProFlex LLF var. Trimedyne  offers five sizes (true 200, 273, 365, 550 and 910) featuring IQ's Pulsar HPC connector and Smooth Passage tips. Our true 200 is the only Trimedyne compatible fiber capable of reaching lower pole stones because it does not interfere with scope deflection what-so-ever. As a bonus, it delivers more laser power than others' larger core fibers(rated at 25W...

Resurrecting Urine Flow with IQ's Phoenix™ BPH Laser The US Patent Office has informed InnovaQuartz that our multi-wavelength surgical laser, that we have dubbed the Phoenix, has issued (US Pat. No. 9,220,563), precisely one year after it was filed. This laser addresses the deficiencies of other photoselective lasers – photobleaching, charring -- for minimal collateral tissue damage at wavelengths between 380 nm and 450 nm. Phoenix targets multiple tissue chromophores, tissue breakdown products and melanoidins, short-circuiting char formation.   20th CENTURY LASER SURGERY Surgical procedures for removing excess tissue blocking the male urethra (BPH) have advanced a great deal in...

InnovaQuartz has filed a US patent for a novel line of injection port liners that will be made from fused quartz. In research for reducing the laser power and machine time for producing Agilent split/splitless port compatible, direct connect liners in quartz, Jason Guth, Ph.D. (IQ VP for R&D) found a whole new way of approaching liner production that yields far higher precision and accuracy in critical dimensions in ALL liner styles, even straight tube liners. All of these new liners will be made in quartz that is deactivated by SilcoTek’s Siltek™ and almost all of them will be available with...

InnovaQuartz is proud to announce receipt of a Notice of Allowance for our new ProFlex™ LDD75 side fire fiber on September 8th, 2015. The ProFlex LDD75 is the first of what will be a series of disruptively efficient side firing fibers of laser surgery. We are currently gathering data for FDA approval and it’s looking like we’ll be able to release this first design by the end of the first quarter of 2016. ProFlex LDD75 emits laser radiation at roughly 75 degrees at lower divergence than AMS’ MoXy™ with a larger spot that is ideal for faster ablation using 200W...