High Power Lasers - Science and Engineering

I: Design Aspects.- Characteristics of High Power (CO2) Lasers.- Electric-Discharge Pumping.- Spatial and Temporal Scales of Active Medium Inhomogeneities in High Power Gas Lasers.- Gas Lasers with Plasmodynamic Pumping.- Study of Gain Media for High Power Gas Flow Lasers.- On Unstable Resonators Producing Compact Output Beam.- Dynamics of Lasers with Passive and Active Modulation of Losses.- The Time Evolution of the Electric Characteristics of a Laser Discharge Through Their Waveforms of the Voltage and the Current.- Metal Vapour Lasers.- Design and Analysis of a Deep UV Laser Based on Ce3+: LiSrAIF6.- Simultaneous Emission in UV and IR Region in a Sliding Discharge Excited Laser.- Experimental and Theoretical Results of High Optical Quality Excimer Laser Beams.- A High Efficiency Soft X-Ray Laser in the 25–30 nm Spectral Region.- The Asterix IV Iodine Laser: Performance and Applications.- II: Optics.- High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation for Applications with High Beam Quality.- Laser Resonator Concepts.- Variable Reflectivity Mirror Unstable Resonator Thermal Lens Compensated by a Deformable Rear Mirror.- Two-Rod VRM-Unstable Resonator with Deformable Mirror Thermal Compensation.- Beam Transport Optics for High-Power Laser Systems.- High-Power UV Excilamps.- Reproducible Ultrashort Pulses and Multistable Monochromatic Emission from Solid-State Lasers with Saturable Absorber and Negative Feedback Loop.- An Extended Characterization of Flattened Gaussian Beams.- Optics for X-Ray Laser and Laser Plasma Soft X-Ray Radiation.- Computer Simulation of the Laser Beam Intensity Distribution in Resonant Cavities.- III: Measurements.- Laser Medium Quality Control.- Laser Thermal-Wave Diagnostics of Stressed States in Metals.- Experimental Studies ofReflection Ability of Liquid Metal Targets in Vacuum Under Conditions of Neodymium Laser Pulse Radiation.- Reconstruction of a Light Beam Wave Front by Synthesis of a Shear Interferogram.- Experimental Investigations of the Output Beam Properties from a High Power CW CO2 Laser.- The Applications of a Near-IR Laser to Raman Spectroscopy: FT-Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Adsorbed Species by Clays.- IV: Applications.- High-Power Lasers in Materials Processing — an Automotive Perspective.- LCVD with Copper Vapour and Copper Bromide Vapour Lasers — Review.- Laser Deposition and Characterization of A-C and A-C:N Films.- Anisotropic Melting of Semiconductor at Irradiation by Powerful Light Pulses.- Excimer Laser Assisted Deposition and Characterization of Molybdenum Films — Fabrication of Molybdenum Coatings on Optical Fibres.- Pulsed Laser-Induced Synthesis of Metal Sulphides in Sulphurous Liquids Under Action of Shock Waves.- Laser Patterning of Thin Films.- Applications of Nd and Er:YAG Lasers in Ophthalmology and Dentistry.- Late Submissions.- History, Current Status and Outlook for the Future of High Power Solid State Lasers.- Industrial Fast — Axial Flow Carbon Dioxide Lasers.- Fundamentals and Current Status of Excimer Lasers.- List of Participants.