📚 Lasers

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Below are the 30 works carrying the subject lasers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Understanding lasers	Jeff Hecht	1988	16
	Laser-assisted solar cell metallization processing	S. Dutta	1984	12
	Topographic laser ranging and scanning	Jie Shan	2008	11
	Laser Safety	Ken Barat	2009	11
	Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena	Jean-Claude Diels	1995	10
	Laser Dermatology	David J. Goldberg	2005	10
	Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications	Chunlei Guo	2021	10
	Laser light scattering	Benjamin Chu	1974	9
	Laser Applications	Monte Ross	1971	8
	Principi dei laser	Orazio Svelto	1970	7
	Tunable laser applications	F. J. Duarte	1995	7
	ICONO '98	ICONO '98 (1998 Moscow, Russia)	1999	7
	Gas lasers	Robert F. Walter	2006	7
	Solid-state lasers and applications	Alphan Sennaroglu	2007	7
	Biomedical aspects of the laser	Leon Goldman	1967	6
	Principles of Lasers	Orazio Svelto	1970	6
	Measurement of pulsed-laser power	Matt Young	1979	6
	Optical electronics	Amnon Yariv	1985	6
	Lasers	Steve Parker	1998	6
	Introduction to laser technology	C. Breck Hitz	2001	6
	Unlocking dynamical diversity	Deborah M. Kane	2005	6
	Dynamic laser speckle and applications	Hector J. Rabal	2008	6
	Optics, Light and Lasers	Dieter Meschede	2008	6
	Semiconductor Laser Engineering Reliability and Diagnostics	Peter W. Epperlein	2013	6
	Femtosecond Laser Shaping	Marcos Dantus	2017	6
	Laser Physics and Spectroscopy	Pradip Narayan Ghosh	2018	6
	Laser Spectroscopy and Laser Imaging	Helmut H. Telle	2018	6
	Understanding laser technology	C. Breck Hitz	1985	5
	Laser electronics	Joseph T. Verdeyen	1989	5
	The Physics and technology of laser resonators	D. R. Hall	1989	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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