Contents Preface--Editors--Contributors--1. Laser Material Processing: Section Introduction--Subhash C. Singh and Chunlei Guo2. Laser Welding--M. Sparkes and W.M. Steen3. High-Power Laser Cutting--John Powell and Dirk Petring4. Laser Marking--Terry J. McKee5. Laser Micromachining--Beat Neuenschwander6. Rapid Manufacturing--Gary K. Lewis7. Laser Printing--Zacharias Vangelatos and Costas P. Grigoropoulos8. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing--V. Melissinaki and M. Farsari9. Photolithography--Shinji Okazaki10. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films--Binod Subedi, Venkata S. Puli, Ian W. Boyd, and Douglas B. Chrisey11. Surface Micro- and Nano-structuring on Metals with Femtosecond Lasers--Jianjun Yang and Chunlei Guo12. Laser Ablation in Liquids for Nanoparticle Generation and Modification--Subhash C. Singh and Chunlei Guo13. Laser-Induced Forward Transfer--Alexandra Palla Papavlu and Thomas Lippert14. Laser Pyrolysis--Mohammad Malekzadeh, Parham Rohani, and Mark T. Swihart15. Laser Spectroscopy: Section Introduction--Subhash C. Singh, Pavel Redkin, and Chunlei Guo16. Laser Raman Spectroscopy: Fundamentals to Applications--Siva Umapathy Deepak Ranjan Nayak, Khokan Roy, and Sanchita Sil17. Laser Scattering Spectroscopy: Rayleigh Scattering and Dynamic Light Scattering--Haruhisa Kato18. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy--Parviz Parvin and Seyedeh Zahra Mortazavi19. Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) for the Detection of Microbes--Frank Duschek, Lea Fellner, and Karin Gr©ơnewald20. Harmonic Generatioń⁰₄Materials and Methods--David J Binks21. Non-linear Optical Properties of Novel Nanomaterials--Soma Venugopal Rao, K. Naga Krishnakanth, C. Indumathi, and T.C. Sabari Girisun22. Lasers in Imaging: Section Introduction--Pavel Redkin, Subhash C. Singh, and Chunlei Guo23. Lasers in Microscopy--24. Laser-based Coherent Diffractive Imaging--Garth J. Williams25. High-Speed Imaging--Adam Whybrew26. Ultrafast Optical Imaging--Jinyang Liang and Lihong V. Wang27. Transient Absorption Microscopy Measurements of Single Nanostructures--Gary Beane, Tuphan Devkota, Brendan S. Brown, and Gregory V. HartlandIndex--

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