Letters to the editor
Highly selective four-wave mixing of low-intensity radiation in a degenerate two-level atomic system
A. M. Akulshin, S. V. Barreiro, A. Lezama 189–190
Invited paper
Interaction of a high-power laser pulse with supercritical-density porous materials
S. Yu. Gus’kov, A. Caruso, V. B. Rozanov, C. Strangio 191–206
Active media. Lasers
Self-initiated volume discharge in nonchain HF lasers based on SF6—hydrocarbon mixtures
V. V. Apollonov, A. A. Belevtsev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, A. V. Saifulin, K. N. Firsov 207–214
Optical nonuniformities in nuclear-pumped cylindrical lasers
V. Yu. Mat’ev, V. V. Borovkov, S. P. Mel’nikov 215–220
Stimulated IR emission in an optically pumped cesium vapour
M. G. Sitnikov, N. V. Znamenskiy, E. A. Manykin, E. A. Petrenko, G. G. Grigoryan 221–224
Electric-discharge DF laser with a pulsed energy of the order of 10 J
V. P. Borisov, V. V. Burtsev, S. D. Velikanov, S. L. Voronov, V. V. Voronin, A. F. Zapol’skii, M. I. Zolotov, G. A. Kirillov, G. M. Mishchenko, A. M. Podavalov, V. D. Selemir, V. D. Urlin, Yu. N. Frolov, V. P. Tsiberev 225–228
Control of laser radiation parameters
Measurement of ultrashort-radiation parameters by the method of chirped-pulsed spectral interferometry
V. S. Belyaev, V. I. Vinogradov, A. S. Kurilov, A. P. Matafonov, A. V. Pakulev, V. E. Yashin 229–235
Nonlinear optical phenomena and devices
Phase matching and the spectrum of high-order harmonics generated in an extended medium
V. T. Platonenko, V. V. Strelkov 236–242
Propagation of narrow laser beams in a resonantly absorbing medium
Yu. V. Petrushevich, A. N. Starostin 243–247
Stabilisation of emission in the first Stokes component of stimulated Raman scattering in the nonlinear regime
N. I. Shamrov 248–252
BBO-crystal optical parametric oscillator tunable over the 300 — 2340 nm range and pumped by the 4th harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser
N. V. Kondratyuk, A. A. Shagov, K. L. Demidchik, A. M. Yurkin, A. E. Kokh 253–254
Optical absorption of gamma-irradiated KTP crystals in the 0.9 — 2.5 μm range
M. V. Alampiev, O. F. Butyagin, N. I. Pavlova 255–256
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Amplifying waveguides and the concentration of radiation on supersmall scales
T. I. Kuznetsova 257–260
Luminescence of Cr4+:Ca2GeO4 films in the near infrared region
O. N. Gorshkov, E. M. Dianov, N. B. Zvonkov, G. A. Maksimov, V. N. Protopopov, Yu. I. Chigirinskii 261–262
Self-limiting of the thickness of diamond-like films deposited in the laser pyrolysis of liquid aromatic hydrocarbons
A. V. Simakin, E. N. Lubnin, G. A. Shafeev 263–267
Miniature intracavity laser spectrum analysers
A. N. Kolerov 268–270
Nonreciprocal acousto-optical effect in planar waveguides
O. E. Nanii 271–273
Correlation between the number of quantum-statistical modes of the exciting field and the number of lines in the resonance fluorescence spectrum
B. V. Kryzhanovskii, G. B. Sokolov 274–278
Conditions for the simultaneous formation of Ar, Kr, and Xe chlorides in a multiwave radiation source pumped by a transverse discharge
A. K. Shuaibov, A. I. Dashchenko 279–281
Information
First meeting of the Editorial Council of Kvantovaya Elektronika
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