Letters to the editor
Enhancement of the efficiency of second-harmonic generation in a microlaser
I. I. Zolotoverkh, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev 565–566
Active media
Analysis of the possibility of lasing on the third continuum in argon
A. M. Boichenko, S. I. Yakovlenko 567–572
Multiquantum vibrational exchange in highly excited CO molecules
A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, Yu. B. Konev, A. K. Kurnosov, A. P. Napartovich, D. V. Sinitsyn, Yu. V. Terekhov 573–579
Chemical hydrogen fluoride laser on a thermal chain explosion initiated by resonance IR radiation
V. I. Igoshin, S. Yu. Pichugin, I. L. Stukalina 580–582
Control of laser radiation parameters
Influence of discharge circuit parameters on the repetition rate-energy output characteristics of a laser on self-terminating transitions of atomic copper
N. A. Yudin 583–586
Absence of the laser output response to modulation of the optical density of the intracavity absorber
A. P. Voitovich, O. E. Kostik, V. V. Mashko 587–591
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Interrelation of the laser-induced damage characteristics in statistical theory
M. F. Koldunov, A. A. Manenkov, I. L. Pokotilo 592–596
On the mechanism of local melting on the surface of monocrystalline semiconductors under intense light irradiation
Ya. V. Fattakhov, M. F. Galyautdinov, T. N. L’vova, I. B. Khaibullin 597–600
Two-dimensional energy transfer and plasma formation under laser beam irradiation of a subcritical-density material
S. Yu. Gus’kov, N. V. Zmitrenko, I. V. Popov, V. B. Rozanov, V. F. Tishkin 601–605
Nonlinear optical phenomena and devices
High-resolution four-photon spectroscopy with chirped pulses
A. M. Zheltikov, A. N. Naumov 606–610
Study of the uniqueness and stability of the solutions of inverse problem in saturation fluorimetry
I. V. Boychuk, T. A. Dolenko (Gogolinskaya), A. R. Sabirov, V. V. Fadeev, E. M. Filippova 611–616
Controlled optical structures in a nonlinear system involving the suppression of low spatial frequencies in the feedback loop
I. P. Nikolaev, A. V. Larichev, V. I. Shmalgauzen 617–622
Propagation of ultrashort pulses through a nonresonance quadratically nonlinear medium in the unidirectional wave approximation
E. V. Kazantseva, A. I. Maimistov 623–628
Optical superradiance in a Pr3+:LaF3 crystal
V. A. Zuikov, A. A. Kalachev, V. V. Samartsev, A. M. Shegeda 629–631
High-efficiency parametric converter based on KTP crystals
V. L. Naumov, A. M. Onishchenko, A. S. Podstavkin, A. V. Shestakov 632–634
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Holographic recording in films of azo-containing LC polymers in the presence of orienting electric field
A. N. Simonov, A. V. Larichev, V. P. Shibaev 635–640
Frequency reference in the 732-nm region for precision laser spectroscopy of muonium
S. N. Bagayev, A. M. Belkin, A. S. Dychkov, A. S. Efimov, V. A. Zhmud’, D. B. Kolker, Yu. A. Matyugin, V. S. Pivtsov, S. A. Farnosov, N. V. Fateev 641–646
Structural chaos in reversible spontaneous emission of moving atoms
S. V. Prants, V. I. Yusupov 647–652
Photoinduced thermomechanical effect in homogeneous nematics
R. S. Akopyan, R. B. Alaverdyan, E. A. Santrosyan, Yu. S. Chilingaryan 653–654
Chronicle
IX all-Russian seminar on chemical and electric-discharge CO lasers (KhL/COL’99, Smolyachkovo)
V. I. Mashendzhinov, M. A. Rotinyan 655–658