This work presents proceedings from the 47th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at St Andrews during June 1995. It includes coverage of microcavity lasers and QED, solid-state laser materials, fibre lasers and pulsed parametric oscillators.

The proceeding of the 50th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, this volume combines new physics and current device developments in low dimensional semiconductors. The aim of the text is to allow those who already have some familiarity with semiconductor physics and devices to broaden and expand their knowledge into expanding topics in low dimensional semiconductors. It provides a pedagogical coverage of selected areas of new and pertinent physics of low dimensional structures with a perspective of some of the latest optoelectronic devices under development. The coverage includes...

Advances in Lasers and Applications opens with tutorial reviews of the underpinning science of diode pumped lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and ultrafast pulse generation. The book proceeds to the more specialized areas of waveguide lasers, ultrafast parametric amplification, visible solid-state lasers, materials, and diode pumps. The final sections present the applications of these sources to medicine, remote sensing and ranging, materials processing, and the widening set of applications for ultrashort pulses.