Trends in Quantum Electronics

by A.N. Prokhorov

Achievements in the Field of Solid-State Lasers.- Recent Advances in Ultraviolet Laser Technology.- The Pulse-Repetition Operation Regime of a Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser.- Experiments on Mode Pulling in a CO2 Laser.- Infrared Solid State Lasers.- Cascade Stimulated Emission in Crystals with Several Metastable States of Ln3+ Ions.- Recent Developments in Monochromatic Birefringent Filters.- Laser Research and Applications in China.- Helical and Linear Distributed Feedback Lasers.- Spectral, Luminescence and Lasing Properties of Yttrium, Scandium, Gallium Garnet Crystals with Chromium and Erbium.- Tunable Dye Lasers in the Visible and Ultraviolet and their Spectroscopic Applications.- "Channeling" of Relativistic Electrons in a Periodic E. M. Potential.- Optogalvanic Laser Frequency Stabilization.- Thermodynamics of Laser Systems.- The Applicability of the Mean-Field Method in Optical Bistability.- Nonlinear Guided Physics and Applications.- Laser-Plasma Generation of Ultrahigh-Frequency Currents on Solid Surface Exposed to Laser Radiation.- Electron Stimulated Desorption (ESD): Principles, Techniques and its Applications for Surface Molecules Analysis.- Intense UV-Laser Radiation Interaction with Surfaces.- Fundamentals and Applications of the Interaction of Picosecond, One Micron Radiation with Crystalline Silicon.- Time-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy on the Picosecond and Sub-Picosecond Timescale Studying Coherent Pulse Propagation.- Studies of Metal Oxidation under the Action of CW CO2 Laser Radiation.- Laser Induced Phase Transformation and Vapour Deposition of Amorphous and Crystalline Carbon Phases.- Subnatural Linewidth Laser Spectroscopy.- Analog Optical Computing.- Picosecond Spéctroscopic Investigation on Surfaces.- Optogalvanic Spectroscopy.- Laser Interferometry at 10. 6 µm for Plasma Diagnostics.- Inertial Confinement Fusion with Lasers or Particle Beams.- Optically Pumped FIR Lasers and Their Application in the Plasma Diagnostics.- Heterogeneous Selective Processes under the Action of Laser Radiation.- Trends of Laser Technology in Microelectronics.- Some Properties of New Single-Frequency Stabilized He-Ne Lasers.- Laser Applications in Ophthalmology.- High-Power Fast-Flow CO2 Laser Facility.

559 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1987