The Ablation Properties of CO₂ Laser Irradiating to Absorption Media: An In Vitro Study

Table 1

The actual powers of CO₂ laser measured by the optical power meter.

Regimes	Mean Power; (mW)	Standard deviation	95% confident interval (mW)	Calculated fluence (J/cm^2)
1 Watt	20.5	8.87	16.35 to 24.65	146.43
2 Watt	233.5	25.40	221.61 to 245.39	1,667.86
3 Watt	642.5	42.41	622.65 to 662.35	4,589.29
1 Watt with laser absorption media	0	0	0	0
2 Watt with laser absorption media	15.5	9.99	10.83 to 20.17	110.71
3 Watt with laser absorption media	118	25.87	105.89 to 130.11	842.86

∗Spot area: 0.0007 cm².