Which outcome results when intense, focused, laser light ablates corneal tissue?

💡 Explanation

Laser ablation generates a hot, rapidly expanding plasma because the laser light's energy is absorbed by the corneal material which generates extremely fast vaporization causing plasma formation and a resultant shockwave. Therefore, a shockwave occurs, rather than cavitation or debris minimization, because heat transfer dominates here under pulsed irradiation, rather than surface tension or lower-energy phenomena.

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