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Preface. List of symbols. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic properties and typesof lasers. 3. Laser resonators. 4. The intensity of laser light. Rateequations. 5. The basic equations of the semiclassical laser theory. 6.Applications of semiclassical theory. 7. Ultrashort pulses. 8. Instabilityhierachies of laser light. Chaos, and routes to chaos. 9. Opticalbistability. 10. Quantum theory of the laser I. A first approach via quantummechanical Langevin equations. Coherence, noise and photon-statistics. 11.Quantum theory of the laser II. A second approach via the density matrixequation and quantum classical correspondence. 12 A theoretical treatment ofthe two-photon laser. 13. The laser - trailblazer of synergetics. References.Subject index.