Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. CARS -- CARS Diagnostics of High Pressure and Temperature Gases -- CARS Thermometry and N2 Number-Density Measurments in a Turbulent Diffusion Flame -- Comparison of CARS Combustion Temperatures with Standard Techniques -- Electronically Resonant CARS Detection of OH -- Simultaneous CARS and Luminosity Measurements in a Bluff-Body Combustion -- Chapter II. Laser-Induced Fluorescence. -- Nonintrusive Pressure Measurements with Laser-Induced Iodine Fluorescence -- Laser-Induced Schlieren Effect in Sodium-Nitrogen Mixtures -- Use of Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Fundamental Gas-Phase Kinetic Measurements -- Chapter III. Particle Diagnostics -- Nonintrusive Laser-Based Particle Diagnostics - Invited Review -- Interpretation of Optical Measurements of Soot in Flames -- In Situ Measurement of the Complex Refractive Index of Combustion Generated Particulates -- Chapter IV. Combustion Diagnostics Applications -- Temperature and Concentration Measurements in an Internal Combustion Engine Using Laser Raman Spectroscopy -- Rayleigh Thermometry with Low-Power Laser Sources -- Laser Tomography for Simultaneous Concentration and Temperature Measurement in Reacting Flows -- Flow Measurement in a Model Combustion Chamber -- Author Index.