Invention of the solid-state laser has initiated the beginning of the laser era. Performance of solid-state lasers improved amazingly during five decades. Nowad

Koechner's well-known ‘bible’ on solid-state laser engineering is now available in an accessible format at the graduate level. Numerous exercises with hints

This book has once again been updated to keep pace with recent developments and to maintain Koechner's position as "the bible" of the field. Written from an ind

Explains the mutual influences between the physical and dynamic processes in solids and their lasing properties. This book provides insight into the physics and

Random lasers are the simplest sources of lasers, since they exhibit stimulated emission without a cavity, with the feedback provided by scattering in a gain me