Femtosecond Lasers and Eye Surgery (Score 2, Informative)

I used to work on a biomedical project at the Univ. of Michigan involving high-speed lasers (usually femtosecond duration) as a tool to replace the larger ablative lasers used in standard refractive surgery (LASIK). The femtosecond lasers could be focused intrastromally, such that the material ablated was directly inside the cornea. Due to the relaxation of some stromal pressure, the cornea itself would reshape to a softer lens, without the huge amount of ablation required by current lasers. http://www.intralase.com/home.html