Introduction -- Stimulated Emission : Could the Laser Have Been Built More than 80 Years Ago? -- Intermezzo : Magnetic Resonance and Optical Pumping -- The Maser -- The Laser -- The First Lasers -- Laser Properties and Progresses in Novel Lasers -- Nonlinear Optics -- More Exotic Lasers -- The Statistical Properties of Light.
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