---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 886.4690"
title: "21"
number: "886.4690"
heading: "Ophthalmic photocoagulator."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/886.4690"
---

# §886.4690. Ophthalmic photocoagulator.

- (a) **Identification.** An ophthalmic photocoagulator is an AC-powered device intended to use the energy from an extended noncoherent light source to occlude blood vessels of the retina, choroid, or iris.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l, 371.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 33355, Sept. 2, 1987, unless otherwise noted.