LIST OF TOPICS xi 29.5 Pulsed Injection Locking:A Phasor Description 1154 29.6 Applications:The Ring Laser Gyroscope 1162 Chapter 30 Hole Burning and Saturation Spectroscopy 30.1 Inhomogeneous Saturation and "Hole Burning"Effects 1171 30.2 Elementary Analysis of Inhomogeneous Hole Burning 1177 30.3 Saturation Absorption Spectroscopy 1184 30.4 Saturated Dispersion Effects 1192 30.5 Cross-Relaxation Effects 1195 30.6 Inhomogeneous Laser Oscillation:Lamb Dips 1199 Chapter 31 Magnetic-Dipole Transitions 31.1 Basic Properties of Magnetic-Dipole Transitions 1213 31.2 The Iodine Laser:A Magnetic-Dipole Laser Transition 1223 31.3 The Classical Magnetic Top Model 1228 31.4 The Bloch Equations 1236 31.5 Transverse Response:The AC Susceptibility 1243 31.6 Longitudinal Response:Rate Equation 1249 31.7 Large-Signal and Coherent-Transient Effects 1256 Index 1267