Nobelprize winner N. Basov and his collaborators collected in this volume a vast amount of systemized experimental data and of theoretical results on chemical lasers thus placing it inbetween a textbook and a hand- book. The introduction is followed by a presentation of the fundamentals of chemical lasers. Subsequent chapters deal with specific types of chemical lasers including the most recent developments opening the road towards ecologically clean lasers.
Nikolay G. Basov