**Meet the editor**

Professor Igor Peshko is currently with Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Physics and Computer Science, Waterloo, Canada. During his career he worked in Universities, National Labs, Government Agencies, and private companies in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Canada, and USA. His priorities were in lasers physics, applied optics, and sensor areas. He is currently working on gen-

eral concepts, hardware, and data processing algorithms of multifunctional scientific instruments. Among them: 1) instruments for extra-terrestrial research; 2) chemical identifiers; 3) field-labs for environmental contamination monitoring and for exploration of oil and gas sites; 4) medical devices for pathologies identification; and 5) mobile and stationary sensory robotic terminals for operating within security networks at high-risk zones. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 publications.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Introduction 1** 

Chapter 1 **Time and Light 3**  Igor Peshko

**Section 2 Pulsed World 33** 

Chapter 2 **Femtosecond Laser Cavity Characterization 35**  E. Nava-Palomares, F. Acosta-Barbosa, S. Camacho-López and M. Fernández-Guasti

Chapter 3 **All Solid-State Passively Mode-Locked Ultrafast** 

Chapter 4 **Longitudinally Excited CO2 Laser 115** 

Chapter 5 **Ultrashort Laser Pulses Machining 143** 

Chapter 6 **Diagnostics of a Crater Growth and Plasma** 

A. Yu. Ivanov and S. V. Vasiliev

Chapter 7 **Interaction of Femtosecond Laser Pulses** 

Roman V. Dyukin, George A. Martsinovskiy, Olga N. Sergaeva, Galina D. Shandybina, Vera V. Svirina and Eugeny B. Yakovlev

Kazuyuki Uno

**Section 3 Cutting and Shooting 141** 

Xin Zhong, Changwen Xu and Zhiguo Zhang

Ricardo Elgul Samad, Leandro Matiolli Machado, Nilson Dias Vieira Junior and Wagner de Rossi

**Jet Evolution on Laser Pulse Materials Processing 175** 

**with Solids: Electron/Phonon/Plasmon Dynamics 197** 

**Lasers Based on Nd, Yb, and Cr Doped Media 73**  Zhiyi Wei, Binbin Zhou, Yongdong Zhang, Yuwan Zou,
