chapter 1 Passively Q-Switched Microchip Lasers -- chapter 2 Yb-Doped Solid-State Lasers and Materials -- chapter 3 Tunable Cr[Sup(2+)]:ZnSe Lasers in the Mid-Infrared -- chapter 4 All-Solid-State Ultraviolet Cerium Lasers -- chapter 5 Eyesafe Rare Earth Solid-State Lasers -- chapter 6 High-Power Neodymium Lasers -- chapter 7 Passively Mode-Locked Solid-State Lasers -- chapter 8 Multipass-Cavity Femtosecond Solid-State Lasers -- chapter 9 Cavity-Dumped Femtosecond Laser Oscillator and Application to Waveguide Writing -- chapter 10 Solid-State Laser Technology for Optical Frequency Metrology -- chapter 11 Solid-State Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifiers -- chapter 12 Noise of Solid-State Lasers.