This volume covers topics such as: sold-state circuits; laser resonatorsbeam propogation; semiconductor lasers; nonlinear effects and frequency conversion; optical measurement techniques; medical and biological applications; and waveguide lasers, fibre lasers and amplifiers.

Developments in lasers continue to enable progress in many areas such as eye surgery, the recording industry and dozens of others. This book presents citations from the book literature for the last 25 years and groups them for ease of access which is also provided by subject, author and titles indexes.