Proceedings of DAE-BRNS national laser symposium

This proceedings comprise of a series of invited talks on selected topics in lasers and wide range of contributed papers. The main topics are physics and technology of lasers, laser resonators, gas and metal vapour lasers, dye and free electron lasers, solid state and semiconductor lasers, laser power supplies, laser based instrumentation, lasers in industry and defence, laser in biology and medicine, laser spectroscopy, laser plasma interaction, lasers in materials science, laser materials, devices and components, fibre optics, integrated optics and optical communication, nonlinear optics, quantum optics. The papers relevant to INIS Database are indexed separately. (author)