Invited paper
Extension of potentialities of millisecond pulsed Nd:YAG lasers in the welding technology
S. V. Kayukov 941–948
Lasers, active media
The aqueous-polyelectrolyte dye solution as an active laser medium
A. I. Akimov, A. M. Saletskii 949–953
Microporous glass-polymer composite as a new material for solid-state dye lasers: I. Material properties
H. R. Aldag, S. M. Dolotov, M. F. Koldunov, Ya. V. Kravchenko, A. A. Manenkov, D. P. Pacheco, E. P. Ponomarenko, A. V. Reznichenko, G. P. Roskova, T. S. Tsekhomskaya 954–958
The spectrum and competition of autowaves in a wide-aperture laser with a saturable filter
A. P. Zaikin 959–962
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Equation of matter state in the average-ion model for a laser-produced plasma
S. A. Bel’kov, S. V. Bondarenko, E. I. Mitrofanov 963–969
Polarisation characteristics of the harmonics and reflected radiation upon the interaction of 100-GW picosecond pulses with aluminium films
R. A. Ganeev, J. A. Chakera, M. Raghuramaiah, A. K. Sharma, P. A. Naik, P. D. Gupta 970–974
A change in the refractive properties of water irradiated by a 2.94-μm erbium laser
K. L. Vodop’yanov, L. A. Kulevskii, A. V. Lukashev, P. P. Pashinin 975–978
Nonlinear optical phenomena
The influence of the spatial inhomogeneity of the field on the nonlinear-optical response of an atom
A. V. Andreev, A. B. Kozlov 979–985
Fluctuations of the energy of Stokes pulses of resonance coherent SRS
N. I. Shamrov 986–990
The specific features of self-action of high-power laser radiation propagating through a fully ionised cold plasma and the development of modulation instability
V. A. Aleshkevich, V. A. Vyslouh, Ya. V. Kartashov 991–996
Stimulated Raman scattering of light in a photonic crystal
R. G. Zaporozhchenko, S. Ya. Kilin, A. G. Smirnov 997–1001
The formation dynamics of a shock wave of the ultrashort pulse envelope in a medium with relaxing cubic nonlinearity
A. A. Afanas’ev, V. M. Volkov, A. I. Urbanovich 1002–1004
Nonparaxiality of dissipative optical solitons
N. N. Rosanov 1005–1008
Conservation of the angular momentum for multidimensional optical solitons
A. S. Desyatnikov, A. I. Maimistov 1009–1013
Propagation of ultrashort electromagnetic pulses in a Kerr medium with impurity atoms under quasi-resonance conditions
A. M. Basharov, A. I. Maimistov 1014–1018
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Excitation of Fe I and Fe II in electron – atom collisions
Yu. M. Smirnov 1019–1024
The use of a ring laser to study the space isotropy
N. V. Kravtsov, V. V. Ragulsky 1025–1026
On the feasibility of raising the density and the extension of atomic ensembles in laser cooling
L. A. Rivlin, S. D. Yakubovich 1027–1030
Optoacoustic monitoring of laser correction of the ear shape
A. I. Omel’chenko, È. N. Sobol’, A. P. Sviridov, S. Harding, K. Jumel, R. Walker, N. Jones 1031–1033
Personalia
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for 2000
N. G. Basov, O. N. Krokhin 1034