Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

of Volume 4A.- I. Lasers for Fusion.- Fusion Laser Development at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.- Powerful 12-Channel Laser Installation “Delfin” for Spherical Heating of Thermonuclear Targets.- Advanced Laser Technology for Laser-Induced Fusion Applications.- Laser Damage Phenomenology in Materials.- Verdet Constants near 450 nm in Ho3+ Doped Soda Glass.- Prospects of the High Power Iodine Laser.- Terawatt Iodine Laser.- CO2 Laser Systems for Fusion Experiments.- Recent Developments in High Power CO2 Laser Mode-Locking and Pulse Selection.- CO2 Laser-Plasma Interaction Studies at NRC-Canada.- Direct Nuclear Pumped Lasers - Status and Potential Applications.- II. X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Lasers.- Progress on X-Ray Laser Research.- On the Feasibility of Grasers.- Kinetics of Stimulated Emission in Neutron-Pumped Nuclear Laser Systems.- Nuclear Techniques for Directed Emission and Switched Operation of Grasers.- Possibility of Grasers Using Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition.- III. Targets.- Cryogenic Microshell Pellets and Other Advanced Targets for Laser Fusion.- Tritium Handling and the Preparation of DT-Containing Micro-Targets for Laser Fusion Experiments.- High-Temperature High-Quality Deuterium Plasma Production by Laser Beams and Interactions with Magnetic Fields.- The Production of Solid Hydrogen Isotope Pellets, Their Interaction with Lasers and the Problem of Filling Magnetic Confinement Configurations with Laser-Produced Plasmas.- IV. Moderate Intensities.- The Physics of Laser-Plasma Interaction in Gaseous Targets.- The Broadening of the Lyman Lines in a Laser- Produced Plasma.- Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Laser-Produced Plasmas at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center.- V. Fusion Oriented Experiments.- Laser Fusion Experiments UsingSpherical Shell Targets.- Plasma Experiments with 1.06-?m Lasers at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.- Interaction of Powerful Laser Radiation with Shell Targets.- Laser Driven Implosion Experiments at Limeil.- Theory and Interpretation of Laser Compression Studies at the University of Rochester.- Experimental Studies of the Physics of Laser Fusion.- Initial Target Experiments with the Iodine Laser.- Thermonuclear Fusion Plasma by Lasers Coupling and Implosion.- Author Index.