Out-of-town plenary meeting of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the Problem of Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, Kishinev, December 3–5,1984

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 Kishinev on December 3–5, 1984. The following topics were discussed at this meeting: nonlinear optical properties of semiconductors, semiconductors at high excitation rates, waveguide systems, applications of lasers in biology, optical instrumentation.