This essential volume, a brilliant source for engineers as well as scientists in numerous fields, document the state of the art of laser physics and it applications. Scientific trends and related technological aspects are considered by compiling results and conclusions from phenomenology, observation and experiments. Reliable data, physical fundamentals and detailed references are presented. In recent decades the laser source has matured to a universal tool.

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