| Basic Physics of Lasers | p. 1 |
| Spontaneous and Stimulated Transitions. Einstein Coefficients. Properties of Stimulated Radiation | p. 1 |
| Laser Operation Basics | p. 7 |
| Population Inversion | p. 11 |
| Amplification and Saturation | p. 15 |
| Distribution of the Electromagnetic Field in the Optical Resonator | p. 19 |
| Longitudinal Modes | p. 19 |
| Quality Factor of Resonator Q. Relationship between Linewidth of Stimulated Emission and Resonator Quality Factor | p. 21 |
| Transverse Modes | p. 25 |
| Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses | p. 31 |
| Modelocking. Relationship between Linewidth of Stimulated Emission and Pulse Duration | p. 32 |
| Methods of Modelocking. Active and Passive Modelocking | p. 40 |
| Q-Switching | p. 49 |
| Cavity dumping | p. 52 |
| Lasers | p. 59 |
| Ruby Laser | p. 60 |
| Molecular Gas Lasers from the Infrared Region | p. 61 |
| Lasers Operating on Rotational Transitions | p. 62 |
| Lasers Operating on Vibrational-Rotational Transitions: CO[subscript 2] and CO | p. 63 |
| Chemical Lasers | p. 68 |
| Solid-State Lasers | p. 69 |
| Neodymium Laser and other Rare-Earth Lasers | p. 70 |
| Solid-State Tunable Lasers (Vibronic Lasers) | p. 74 |
| Fiber Lasers | p. 78 |
| Gas Lasers for the Visible Range | p. 82 |
| Helium-Neon Laser | p. 82 |
| Ion-Gas Lasers. Argon and Krypton Lasers | p. 83 |
| Liquid Dye Lasers | p. 84 |
| Gas Lasers for the Ultraviolet Range | p. 87 |
| Excimer Lasers | p. 87 |
| Nitrogen Laser | p. 90 |
| Diode Lasers | p. 90 |
| Intrinsic Semiconductors. Doped Semiconductors. n-p Junction | p. 90 |
| Diode Lasers | p. 94 |
| Nonlinear Optics | p. 107 |
| Second Order Nonlinear Phenomena | p. 110 |
| Phase Matching Methods | p. 113 |
| Practical Aspects of the Second Harmonic Generation | p. 118 |
| SHG for Pico- and Femtosecond Pulses | p. 120 |
| Parametric Oscillator | p. 125 |
| The Third Order Nonlinear Processes | p. 131 |
| Stimulated Raman Scattering | p. 132 |
| Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) | p. 135 |
| The Other Techniques of Nonlinear Stimulated Raman Scattering | p. 137 |
| Nonlinear Dispersion Phenomena Affecting Picosecond and Femtosecond Pulse Duration - Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD) and Self Phase Modulation (SPM) | p. 139 |
| Pulse Amplification | p. 147 |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| Theoretical Background | p. 147 |
| Design Features of Amplifiers | p. 150 |
| Regenerative Amplifier | p. 152 |
| The Pockels Cell | p. 154 |
| Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) | p. 156 |
| The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses | p. 161 |
| Autocorrelation Techniques | p. 162 |
| FROG Techniques | p. 170 |
| Selected Methods of Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy | p. 175 |
| Fluorescence Decay | p. 176 |
| The Pump-Probe Method | p. 183 |
| CARS as a Time-Resolved Method | p. 189 |
| Photon Echo | p. 191 |
| Spin Echo in NMR | p. 191 |
| Optical Resonance | p. 198 |
| Quantum-Classical Description of the Photon Echo | p. 201 |
| Weak Field Approximation | p. 202 |
| Rotating-Wave Approximation | p. 203 |
| Strong Field Approximation. Rabbi Frequency | p. 204 |
| Practical Advantages of Photon Echo Applications | p. 209 |
| Quantum Beats | p. 212 |
| Quantum Description | p. 212 |
| Examples of Quantum Beats Applications | p. 214 |
| Ultrafast Chemical and Physical Processes | p. 219 |
| Femtochemistry. Wave packet dynamics. Theory | p. 221 |
| Femtochemistry. Spectroscopic Application of Wave Packet Dynamics | p. 229 |
| Excited-State Vibrational Coherence | p. 231 |
| Vibrational Coherence in "Reacting" Excited-State Molecules. Bacteriorhodopsin | p. 232 |
| H-Bond Dynamics | p. 235 |
| Photoisomerization | p. 240 |
| Photoisomerization of cis- and trans-Stilbene | p. 240 |
| Intramolecular Charge Transfer | p. 242 |
| Molecular Reorientations | p. 243 |
| Investigation of Intermediates | p. 245 |
| Photoreduction | p. 245 |
| Carbenes | p. 246 |
| Excited-State Proton Transfer | p. 247 |
| Ultrafast Coherent Spectroscopy. Vibrational Dynamics | p. 249 |
| Energy Relaxation T[subscript 1], and Phase Relaxation T[subscript 2] | p. 251 |
| Dynamics of an Excess Electron. Solvated Electron | p. 257 |
| Excess Electron Spectroscopy | p. 260 |
| Lasers in Medicine | p. 271 |
| Introduction | p. 271 |
| Photochemical Interactions | p. 274 |
| Photodynamic Therapy | p. 274 |
| Sensitizers | p. 275 |
| Photochemistry of Sensitizers | p. 277 |
| Thermal Interaction | p. 278 |
| Photoablation | p. 279 |
| Plasma-Induced Ablation | p. 280 |
| Application of Lasers in Medicine | p. 280 |
| Potential Hazards Associated with Inappropriate Use of Lasers | p. 285 |
| Radiation Hazards | p. 286 |
| Eye Hazards | p. 287 |
| Skin Hazard | p. 290 |
| Other Hazards | p. 291 |
| Detectors | p. 293 |
| Detectors Types and Detectors Characterizing Parameters | p. 294 |
| Photoemissive Detectors | p. 297 |
| Semiconductor Detectors | p. 300 |
| Multichannel Detectors PDA and CCD | p. 301 |
| Subject Index | p. 311 |
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