The large amount of information carried by the energy, spectral, and space-time characteristics of a laser beam makes it feasible to use laser radiation to control the processes that occur in solids. The influence of laser radiation with a wide range of deposited energies on a variety of processes is considered: these processes include crystal growth, formation of dissipative (spatial and temporal) defect structures on the surface and in the bulk of a solid, instabilities in melts, materials fracture considered from the point of view of both selectivity and self-organisation. An analysis is made of the relationship between the nature and parameters of such structures, on the one hand, and the characteristics of laser radiation, on the other.

PACS: 61.80.Ba, 42.62.Hk DOI: 10.1070/PU1996v039n01ABEH000125 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1996/1/a/ A1996TZ81500001 Citation: Mirzoev F Kh, Panchenko V Ya, Shelepin L A "Laser control processes in solids" Phys. Usp. 39 1–29 (1996) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Оригинал: Мирзоев Ф Х, Панченко В Я, Шелепин Л А «Лазерное управление процессами в твердом теле» УФН 166 3–32 (1996); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0166.199601a.0003