Letters
The first observation of SRS in a trigonal LiCaAlF6 crystal
A. A. Kaminskii, H. J. Eichler, K. Ueda, P. Reiche, G. M. Gad 1035–1036
Active media
Simulations of the kinetics of the active medium of an X-ray laser heated by high-power picosecond pulses
V. Yu. Politov, V. A. Lykov, M. K. Shinkarev 1037–1042
Laser media based on coloured polyurethane
V. I. Bezrodnyi, A. A. Ishchenko 1043–1048
Ultrahigh energy gain in small volumes of the active medium in a laser based on an autowave photon-branched chain reaction
V. I. Igoshin, R. R. Letfullin 1049–1054
Lasers
A microporous glass-polymer composite as a new material for solid-state dye lasers: II. Lasing 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 1055–1059
Gas dynamics of the active medium of a supersonic cw HF chemical laser
I. A. Fedorov, M. A. Rotinyan, A. M. Krivitskii 1060–1064
Numerical study of self-oscillations in a laser with an unstable cavity
N. N. Ëlkin, A. P. Napartovich 1065–1071
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Study of the mechanism of steel cutting with the weakly focused radiation from a repetitively pulsed CO2 laser
G. G. Gladush, S. V. Drobyazko, N. B. Rodionov, L. I. Antonova, Yu. M. Senatorov 1072–1076
Moderation of recombination in an ultracold laser-produced plasma
A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko 1077–1079
Three-dimensional microscopy of laser-produced plasmas using third-harmonic generation
D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. N. Naumov, S. O. Konorov, A. B. Fedotov, A. M. Zheltikov 1080–1082
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Mechanism of formation of doubly charged ions upon nonlinear ionisation of Ba atoms in the frequency range from 9390 to 9470 cm-1
V. V. Suran, I. I. Bondar’ 1083–1086
Nonlinear optical parameters of fullerene films and solutions
R. A. Ganeev, A. I. Ryasnyansky, M. K. Kodirov, T. B. Usmanov 1087–1090
Nonlinear interaction of ultrashort light pulses with a thin semiconductor film under conditions of two-photon exciton-biexciton conversion
A. V. Corovai, P. I. Khadzhi 1091–1093
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Autocollimation diffraction gratings based on waveguides with leakage modes
V. A. Sychugov, B. A. Usievich, K. E. Zinov’ev, O. Parriaux 1094–1098
Spectral-phase interference method for detecting biochemical reactions on a surface
P. I. Nikitin, B. G. Gorshkov, M. V. Valeiko, S. I. Rogov 1099–1104
NH3 laser as a radiation source for a two-frequency lidar
B. I. Vasil’ev, Cho Cheon Whang 1105–1106
45-dB Faraday isolator for 100 W average radiation power
N. F. Andreev, O. V. Palashov, A. K. Potemkin, D. H. Reitze, A. M. Sergeev, E. A. Khazanov 1107–1108
Maximum-likelihood estimates of the frequency and other parameters of signals of laser Doppler measuring systems operating in the one-particle-scattering mode
V. S. Sobolev, M. N. Prokopenko 1109–1114
Some aspects of optoacoustic tomography
A. A. Aliverdiev, A. A. Amirova, M. G. Karimov 1115–1117