D.M. Finlayson (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) (Author) ,  B Sinclair (University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK)

• LASER SOURCES. A review of diode-pumped lasers (D Hanna/W A Clarkson). Visible cw solid-state lasers (G Huber) Fibre and waveguide lasers (A Tropper). Optical parametric oscillators (OPO) (M H Dunn/M Ebrahimzadeh). Physics of ultrashort pulse generation (U Keller).MATERIALS. Materials for lasers and nonlinear optics (W F Krupke). Periodically poled materials for nonlinear optics (L E Myers).APPLICATIONS. Medical lasers: fundamentals and applications (R M Verdaasdonk). Solid state lasers and nonlinear optics for LIDAR (P F Moulton). Challenges for new laser sources in the interferometric gravitational wave detectors (S Rowan/J Hough). Lasers in Material processing (P Loosen). Applications of ultrashort pulse lasers (W Sibbett/W H Knox).