Laser Sources and Applied: Proceedings of the Forty Seventh Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, June 1995 (Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics//Proceedings)

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in the development of solid state, fibre, semiconductor and parametric sources of coherent radiation which are opening up new opportunities for laser applications. This volume of the Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics series provides a tutorial introduction to the basic principles of these developments at a level suitable for postgraduate research students and others with a basic knowledge of lasers and nonlinear optics. The approach encompasses both the physics and engineering aspects of the field.