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Increase of scleral water permeability due to formation of porous structure after exposure of pulsed periodic radiation of erbium-glass optical fiber laser with wave length 1,56 pm was demonstrated in experimental study of cadaver human eyes in vitro and eyes of experimental animals (rabbits) in vivo. Simultaneous complex laser exposure of pars plana and ciliary processes results in summation of morphological changes that provide decrease of aqueous humor secretion, uveal drainage and extension of suprachoroid space. A base for new noninvasive technology of nondestructive laser exposure in glaucoma treatment is established.

Experimental-and-morphological as well as physical-and-chemical changes occurring in the eye fibrous coat tissues, i.e. the cornea and sclera, at non-ablation impact of fiber laser radiation (Er-glass) with a wavelength of 1.56 mcm were analyzed. Necrobiotic or necrotic changes occur in the tissues with regard for laser radiation capacity and impact duration; subsequently, the regenerative process involving a retraction of the sclera and a flattening of the cornea takes place in the end. When the cornea is heated by fiber laser radiation with a minimally possible intensity (up to 0.3 Wt), a temporary weakening is observed in the corneal rigidity. Should it be accompanied by a simultaneous occurrence of retraction forces coming from the sclera (at its coagulation), it can be used to change, in the clinical controllable mode, the corneal curvature radius.