chapter 1 Ultrafast Solid-State Lasers / chapter 2 Ultrafast Solid-State Amplifiers / chapter 3 Ultrafast Fiber Oscillators / chapter 4 Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Amplifiers -- chapter 5 Ultrafast Single- and Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Lasers: Physics and Applications -- chapter 6 Overview of Industrial and Medical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers / chapter 7 Micromachlning -- chapter 8 Structural Changes Induced in Transparent Materials with Ultrashort Laser Pulses -- chapter 9 Rapid Scanning Time Delays for Ultrafast Measurement Systems / chapter 10 Electro-Optic Sampling and Field Mapping / chapter 11 Terahertz Wave Imaging and Its Applications / chapter 12 Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light / chapter 13 Ultrahigh Bit Rate Communication Systems / chapter 14 Nonlinear Microscopy with Ultrashort Pulse Lasers / chapter 15 Optical Coherence Tomography -- chapter 16 Ultrafast Lasers in Ophthalmology