Contents -- Ophthalmic laser safety -- The purposes of surgery -- Contact lenses for ophthalmic laser treatment -- Fundamentals of optical fibers -- On the application of optical fibers in ophthalmology -- Laser speckle -- Laser Doppler techniques in ophthalmology-Principles and applications -- Principles of optical coherence tomography -- From physical energy to biological effect-How retinal laser treatment affects diabetic retinopathy -- High-resolution multiphoton imaging and nanosurgery of thecornea using femtosecond laser pulses -- Selective absorption by melanin granules and selective cell targeting -- Mechanisms of short-pulsed plasma-mediated laser ablationand disruption -- The first clinical application of the laser -- Selective retinal pigment epithelium laser treatment-Theoretical and clinical aspects -- Confocal microscopy of the eye -- Imaging in ophthalmology -- Different methods of refractive surgery-The advantages and risks, and their relationship to professional ethics and morals -- Corneal laser surgery for refractive corrections -- Selective laser trabeculoplasty -- Photocoagulation, transpupillary thermotherapy andphotodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization -- Photodynamic therapy: basic principles and mechanisms -- The concept and experimental validation of photodynamictherapy in neovascular structures in the eye -- Photodynamic therapy: clinical status -- Controversial aspects of photodynamic therapy -- Lasers in diabetes -- Retinal Photocoagulation with Diode Lasers -- Central Serous Chorioretinopathy -- Scanning Laser Polarimetry of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in the Detection and Monitoring of Glaucoma -- The Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Staging System with Confocal Tomography -- Principles of Photodisruption -- Ultrastructual Effects of Laser Irradiation at the Anterior Chamber Angle.

Erbium:YAG Laser Trabecular Ablation -- Laser Cyclodestructive Procedures of the Ciliary Body -- Laser Uveoscleroplasty: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Experience -- Transpupillary Laser Phototherapy for Retinal and Choroidal Tumors. A Rational Approach -- Lasers in Intraocular Tumors -- Erbium:YAG Laser Vitrectomy -- Lasers in Small-Incision Cataract Surgery -- Some Applications of the Neodymium:YAG Laser Operating in the Thermal and Photodisruptive Modes. Vitreolysis -- The Neodymium:YAG Laser in Strabismus and Plastic Surgery of the Face. Wound Repair -- Hemostasis, Hemodynamics, Photodynamic Therapy, Transpupillary Thermotherapy: Controversial Aspects -- Lasers in Lacrimal Surgery -- Index.