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Lasers of high power densities are useful for a variety of material processing techniques. Laser heating of a finite homogeneous Silver Selenide slab is studied according to the hyperbolic heat conduction model. Laplace Integral transform technique is used to get the solution. This material suffers phase transition from semiconductor to metallic phase at 403 K. It has vital technological applications. The obtained temperature field makes it possible to determine the time required to initiate phase transition or melting. The functional dependence of the obtained functions is revealed. Different laser power densities are considered as illustrative examples.