Resonator Designs for High Brightness Solid-State Lasers. - Defining and Measuring Laser Beam Quality. - Mode-Locked Solid State Lasers. - High Power Rod Slab and Tube Lasers. - Solid-State Laser Materials: Basic Properties and New Developments. - Quantum Confined Semiconductor Lasers. - Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers. - Generation of Visible Light with Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers. - High Power Diode Lasers. - Efficient Narrowband Optical Parametric Oscillators of Beta-Barium-Borate (BBO) and Lithium-Triborate (LBO). - Travelling Wave Parametric Generation of Highly Coherent Femtosecond Pulses Tunable from 750 to 3000 nm. - Frequency Conversion of PS-Pulses: Tunable Pulses from the UV to the Near Infrared. - Quasi-Three-Level Lasers. - Er Tm Ho: YLF Lasers in Astigmatically Compensated Resonators. - Color Center Lasers: State of the Art and Recent Developments. - Fibre Lasers. - The Role of Solid State Lasers in Soft-X-Ray Projection Lithography. - Second Harmonic Generation and its Application to High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen. - Diode Lasers and Metrology. - Semiconductor Diode Lasers in Atomic Spectroscopy. - Overtone Molecular Spectroscopy with Diode Lasers. - Optical Frequency Metrology with Solid State Lasers. - Frequency Stabilized TI:Sapphire Laser for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen. Language: English