Letters to the editor
Polarisation magneto-optical effects in a diode-pumped cw Nd3+:Bi4Ge3O12 laser oscillating at 1.06425 and 1.3418 μm
A. A. Kaminskii, N. V. Kravtsov, N. I. Naumkin, S. N. Chekina, V. V. Firsov 283–284
Anomalous temperature-independent birefringence in a biaxial optical LBO crystal
S. G. Grechin, V. G. Dmitriev, V. A. Dyakov, V. I. Pryalkin 285–286
Invited paper
Some models of propagation of extremely short electromagnetic pulses in a nonlinear medium
A. I. Maimistov 287–304
Lasers
Pulsed operation of a TEA CO2 laser under the conditions of the growth of an optical inhomogeneity of the active medium at high specific pump energies
K. N. Makarov, V. K. Roerich, Yu. A. Satov, A. E. Stepanov, S. V. Khomenko 305–309
The spectroscopy and lasing of monoclinic Tm:KY(WO4)2 crystals
S. N. Bagayev, S. M. Vatnik, A. P. Maiorov, A. A. Pavlyuk, D. V. Plakushchev 310–314
Experimental study of the α-factor in InGaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs strained quantum-well lasers
A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Boltaseva, A. E. Drakin, M. A. Belkin, V. P. Konyaev 315–320
Statistical features of degradation of heterojunction lasers during aging and upon irradiation
A. A. Kochetkov 321–322
Control of laser radiation parameters
Experimental study of a passive gate based on nonlinear internal reflection
I. M. Korda, A. N. Rubinov 323–324
Degree of variation in the pattern of radiation amplified by a XeCl laser system
N. G. Ivanov, V. F. Losev, Yu. N. Panchenko 325–327
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Focusing the beam of a compact, repetitively pulsed x-ray laser to study the interaction of radiation with metallic targets and x-ray reflectometry
I. A. Artyukov, B. R. Benware, A. V. Vinogradov, Yu. S. Kas’yanov, V. V. Kondratenko, C. D. Macchietto, A. Ozols, J. J. Rocca, J. L.-A. Chilla 328–332
Coherent effect of four XeCl laser beams on a surface
V. I. Bredikhin, Yu. K. Verevkin, È. Ya. Daume, S. P. Kuznetsov, O. A. Malshakova, V. N. Petryakov, N. V. Vostokov, N. I. Polushkin 333–336
Influence of the aperture angle on the efficiency of the melting of steel by millisecond laser pulses
S. V. Kayukov, A. A. Gusev 337–341
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Intracavity phase conjugation of the radiation from a pulsed frequency-selective CO laser
A. A. Ionin, A. A. Kotkov, A. K. Kurnosov, A. P. Napartovich, L. V. Seleznev 342–348
Theory of light propagation in three-core nonlinear directional couplers
P. I. Khadzhi, O. K. Orlov 349–350
Successive high-order harmonic generation in hollow fibres
A. M. Zheltikov, A. N. Naumov 351–354
Changes in the nonlinear optical properties of a DKDP crystal under the influence of high-temperature photorefraction
B. V. Anikeev, S. A. Kutsenko, T. V. Samoilenko 355–359
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Theory of differential and integral scattering of laser radiation by a high-precision dielectric surface
V. V. Azarova, V. G. Dmitriev, Yu. N. Lokhov, K. N. Malitskii 360–364
Focused Bessel beams
P. V. Adamson 365–369
Application of the three-mode operation of a broad-band laser in intracavity dispersion frequency-domain spectroscopy
I. P. Konovalov 370–372
Multiplication of the frequency shift of optical radiation by means of cascade acousto-optic interaction
V. M. Kotov 373–376