Out-of-town plenary meeting of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the Problem of Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, Gorki, June 6–8,1983

A review is given of the papers presented at a plenary meeting of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the Problem of Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, held in Gorki on June 6–8,1983. The following topics were discussed at this meeting: precision laser interferometry, laser polarization measurements, fundamental laser experiments, optical instrumentation.