1.1 - Fundamental properties of light

1.2 - Optical properties of materials (metals, nonmetals, tissue)

1.3 - Photon stimulated surface processes

2.1 - Laser output, optical considerations

2.2 - Types of lasers for materials processing

2.3 - Lasers in analytical methods

3.1 - Heat generation and heat transport

3.2 - Temperature distributions; Cooling and thermalization

3.3 - Laser heating and time resolved measurements of transient temperature

3.4 - Annealing with laser beams, surface hardening, surface melting

3.5- Crystallization of amorphous compounds (semiconductors)

3.6- Compound synthesis, polymerization, surface alloying

3.7 - Melt quenching and glass formation upon super cooling

4.1 - Hole drilling and cutting

4.2 - Shaping surfaces

4.3 - Welding; penetration welding

4.4 - Vapor ionization and plasma formation and light plasma interactions

4.5 - Processing of thin films and microstructures; Micromachining

5.1 - Photo chemical processing, photo catalysis

5.2 - Film growth from a vapor (photon assisted CVD)

5.3 - Resonant etching

5.4 - Doping, oxidation, nitration, reduction, metalization

5.5 - Lasers and biological matter: diagnostics, phototherapy, laser surgery

6.2 - Brillouin scattering

6.3 - LIF

7.1 - Pulsed beams

7.2 - Generating ultra short pulses (mode-locked, pulse compression, limits)

7.3 - Multi photon excitations and non-linear phenomena

7.4 - Photon correlation and ultra fast laser spectroscopy and diagnostics

8.1 - Laser Safety

8.2 - Materials processing and basic phenomena

8.3 - Laser spectroscopy and applications