Laser Science and Technology

New Laser Sources.- Progress in Laser Techniques: Toward Industrial U.V. Laser Tools for the Nineties.- X-Ray Laser World Wide Progress.- Electron Wiggling Influence on Optical Guiding in a FEL.- The Free Electron Laser: a Brief Analysis of Theory and Experiment.- Integrated High-Power-CO2-Laser with Coaxial Turbo-Blower and RF-Excitation.- Theoretical and Experimental Considerations.- Polarization and Nonlinear Propagation in Single-Mode Fibres.- Coupled-Cavity Effects in Semiconductor Lasers.- Problems of the Charge Collection in Laser Multiphoton Ionization Experiments.- National Programs.- Italian Programs for Laser Source Development and Applications.- Industrial Applications.- Lasers in Modern Industries.- Interaction of Pulsed Laser Beams with Solid Surfaces: Laser Heating and Melting.- Optical Design Considerations for CO2 Laser Industrial Systems.- Laser Diagnostics of Industrial Chemical Processes.- Lasers in Industrial Chemical Processes.- Lasers in Thin Films Deposition.- Biomedical Applications.- Fundamentals of Low-Power Laser Photomedicine.- Laser Applications in Bio-Medicine: Tumor Therapy and Localization Using Photosensitizing Drugs.- Fundamentals of Laser Angioplasty: Photoablation and Spectral Diagnostics.- Photons in Medicine.- Vasovasostomy by Means of a Nd:Yag Laser.- New Applications of Lasers.- Advances in Laser Fusion.- Non linear Laser Plasma Interactions with Applications to Elementary Particle Acceleration.- Lasers in Nuclear Physics.- Application of Laser Cooling to the Atomic Frequency Standards.- Digital Logic Elements for Optical Computing.- Investigation of Atmospheric Properties with Laser-Radiation.- Laser Techniques for Measuring Atmospheric Trace Constituents.