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With many diagrams and charts of data this publication from The International Society for Optical Engineering has two sections, one on semiconductor lasers, and another on lasers in communication and information processing. GaN-based violet-blue laser diodes; Waveguide optics of short-wavelength lase diodes; Generation of pico- and femtosecound-wavelength tunable optical pulses with self-seeded laser diodes; Internal Q-switching in single-heterostructure lasers...; Cavity solitons in semiconductor microcavities...; Dissipative soliton lasers...; Three-dimensional dissipative optical solitons: laser bullets; Noise enhancement of optical binary signal transmissions; and so many more papers from the June 26-30, 2000 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia.