Ch. 1. Spectroscopy of carbon nanotube production processes / B.A. Cruden -- ch. 2. Spectroscopic studies on laser-produced carbon vapor / K. Sasaki -- ch. 3. Kinetic and diagnostic studies of carbon containing plasmas and vapors using laser absorption techniques / J. Ropcke, A. Rousseau and P.B. Davies -- ch. 4. Spectroscopy of carbon containing diatomic molecules / J.O. Hornkohl, L. Nemes and C. Parigger -- ch. 5. Optical emission spectroscopy of C[symbol] and C[symbol] molecules in laser ablation carbon plasma / N.A. Savastenko and N.V. Tarasenko -- ch. 6. Intra-cavity laser spectroscopy of carbon clusters / S. Raikov and L. Boufendi -- ch. 7. Dynamics of laser-ablated carbon plasma for thin film deposition : spectroscopic and imaging approach / R.K. Thareja and A.K. Sharma -- ch. 8. Laser spectroscopy of transient carbon species in the context of soot formation / V. Nevrly [und weitere] -- ch. 9. Developing new production and observation methods for various sized carbon nanomaterials from clusters to nanotubes / T. Sugai -- ch. 10. Potential model for molecular dynamics of carbon / A.M. Ito and H. Nakamura -- ch. 11. Electronic and molecular structures of small- and medium-sized carbon clusters / V. Parasuk -- ch. 12. Vibrational spectroscopy of linear carbon chains / C.-P. Chou [und weitere] -- ch. 13. Dynamics simulations of fullerene and SWCNT formation / S. Irle [und weitere] -- ch. 14. Mechanisms of carbon gasification reactions using electronic structure methods / J.F. Espinal, T.N. Truong and F. Mondragon