Spatiotemporal characteristics of laser emission. II

The electrodynamic laser theory of a nonstationary nonlinear oscillatory system with spatially distributed parameters, constructed in the first part, and applied there to semiconductor lasers (electron-beam pumped injection lasers) is used in this second part to investigate the spatiotemporal characteristics of emission in the near and far zones and for giant laser light pulse generation in Q-switched lasers (Chap. 1) and the electrodynamic of a laser with planar open cavities, particularly at high pump levels (Chap. 2). In the third chapter is set forth a procedure for the investigation of the wavefront deformation in laser amplifiers. We consider also the possibility of improving the laser divergence by using mirrors comprising systems of inverting prisms - triple prisms or corner reflector (Chap. 4). The fifth chapter is devoted to a procedure for the investigation of the spatiotemporal characteristics of laser radiation with spherical mirrors. In the sixth chapter the spatial structure of propagating Bessel beams, is determined and a comparison is made with other laser beams.