High-Power Lasers and Applications

I Excimer Lasers.- Excimer Lasers.- Coherent Radiation Generation at Short Wavelengths (VUV and XUV Rulses).- Dominant Formation and Quenching Processes in E-Beam Pumped ArF* and KrF* Lasers.- Electron Beam Controlled, Neon Stabilized XeF Laser.- New Visible Laser Transitions in the Mercury Halides.- High Repetition Rate XeF Laser with Gas Recycling.- Simple VUV High Pressure Gas Laser with Coaxial Electron Beam Pumping..- Long Pulse Electron Beam Excited XeF Laser.- II Chemical Lasers.- Electronic Transition Lasers.- Activation and Deactivation Rates in High-Power Lasers.- CW Laser Emission at 3.8?m and 10.6?m Based Upon the Chemical Generation of Chlorine Atoms.- Gas Phase Reactions of Tin and Germanium Atoms.- The Possibility of Laser Pumping via Energy Transfer from or Reactive Collisions with I(2P½).- III Other Laser Systems.- Ultraviolet Ion Lasers.- CW Optically Pumped Molecular Iodine Laser.- Ultraviolet Laser Transitions in I2 and Br2.- Gas Phase and Other New Dye Laser Developments.- Injection-Locked, Unstable Resonator Dye Laser.- Short Wavelength Multiline Performance of CW Ion Lasers.- High Power Iodine Atom Laser.- ASTERIX III, A Terawatt Iodine Laser.- A Simple High Energy TEA CO Laser.- Band Width of an Oscillating CO2 Laser Transition.- Penning Ionization in Doped CO2 TEA Lasers.- IV Frequency Conversion.- Nonlinear Processes in the Infrared and Ultraviolet.- Raman Emission at 285 nm from Sn Vapor.- Down Conversion of 351 nm Radiation for Fusion Lasers.- V Applications.- Final State Energy Distributions for Exoergic Reactions.- Reactions of Atoms with Vibrationally Excited Molecules.- Carbon Isotope Separation by Multiphoton Dissociation of CF3I.- Infrared Laser Dissociation of Tetramethyldioxetane.- Observation of Tunable-Laser-Induced Grating Dip.-Study of the Visible Fluorescence of Gaseous UF6.- List of Participants.