Laser diagnostics; Proceedings of the Meeting, Arlington, VA, May 4, 5, 1982

Topics discussed include laser amplifier gain mapping, the beam quality of continuous and pulsed axial aerodynamic windows, the shadow effect on the multipass interferograms, and a pencil beam interferometer for aspherical optical surfaces. Papers are presented on high energy laser diagnostics, on interline anomalous dispersion effects in hydrogen fluoride, and on a high-accuracy, high-speed heterodyne interferometer with 64 parallel channels of phase recording. Attention is also given to methods for defining and evaluating a high energy laser diagnostic system, to a dynamic Hartmann wavefront sensor in applications, and to a pencil beam interferometer for aspherical optical surfaces. For individual items see A84-16352 to A84-16360