Perspectives in Optics Research

Preface; Recent Progresses of Multi-Wavelenghth Semiconductor Laser Diodes for Optical Information Storage Systems; Soliton Propagation in Three-Level Atomic System Under Detuned Excitation; In-Line Hologram Reconstruction by Using Iterative Algorithms; Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of NO2 and Several Applications; Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser: Current Development Status and Applications; Chalcones: Possible New Materials for Third-Order Nonlinear Optics; Optical Superlattices: Where Photons Behave Like Electrons; Index.