Advances in Lasers and Applications: Proceedings of the Fifty Second Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, September 1998.

Series: Scottish Graduate

Advances in Lasers and Applications opens with tutorial reviews of the underpinning science of diode pumped lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and ultrafast pulse generation. The book proceeds to the more specialized areas of waveguide lasers, ultrafast parametric amplification, visible solid-state lasers, materials, and diode pumps. The final sections present the applications of these source