Lasers not for medical use, namely, pulsed lasers, semiconductor lasers, solid-state lasers, optically-pumped pulse-generating lasers, and optically-pumped external cavity pulse-generating lasers; accessories for lasers not for medical use, namely, gain media, saturable absorbers, laser mirrors, laser resonators, pump diodes, electronic control apparatus for lasers, power supplies for lasers and for laser accessories, and housings for lasers and for laser accessories; optical components and elements, namely, lenses, prisms, beam splitters, planar optical elements, namely, optical windows, optical flats, optical wedges, brewster plates, reticles, and diffusing plates, mirrors or reflectors, mirror layers, thin semiconductor, dielectric or organic films for use with lasers and accessories for lasers, layer systems comprising optically thin semiconductor, dielectric or organic layers and substrates for reflecting, absorbing or transmitting light for use with lasers and accessories for lasers, filters, gratings, polarizers, and phase plates; optomechanical components and elements, namely, mountings and supports, stops, and shutters; optical fibers, optical cables, and optical fiber networks; components, elements, accessories and modules for optical fibers, optical cables and optical fiber networks; [components, elements, accessories and modules for optical fibers, optical cables and optical fiber networks,] [namely optical transmitters, optical amplifiers, optical transponders, optical receivers, optical detectors, optical couplers, optical connectors, optical multiplexers, optical demultiplexers, optical switches, integrated-optical circuits]