Invited paper
Frequency conversion of Bessel light beams in nonlinear crystals
V. N. Belyi, N. S. Kazak, N. A. Khilo 753–766
Active media
On the role of cerium in a chromium-ytterbium-erbium phosphate glass
L. O. Byshevskaya-Konopko, A. A. Izyneev, Yu. S. Pavlov, P. I. Sadovskii 767–770
Lasers
Pulsed laser operating on the first vibrational overtone of the CO molecule in the 2.5 — 4.2-μm range: 1. Multifrequency lasing
N. G. Basov, A. A. Ionin, A. A. Kotkov, A. K. Kurnosov, J. E. McCord, A. P. Napartovich, L. V. Seleznev, N. G. Turkin, G. D. Hager 771–777
Two-colour emission in a solid-state laser with a dispersive cavity
V. G. Voronin, K. P. Dolgaleva, O. E. Nanii 778–782
Development of high-power KrF lasers with a pulse repetition rate up to 5 kHz
V. M. Borisov, A. Yu. Vinokhodov, V. A. Vodchits, A. V. El’tsov, A. S. Ivanov 783–786
Dynamics of injection locking in a solid-state laser with intracavity second-harmonic generation
I. I. Zolotoverkh, E. G. Lariontsev 787–790
High-power fibre Raman lasers emitting in the 1.22 — 1.34-μm range
A. S. Kurkov, E. M. Dianov, V. M. Paramonov, A. N. Gur’yanov, A. Yu. Laptev, V. F. Khopin, A. A. Umnikov, N. N. Vechkanov, O. I. Medvedkov, S. A. Vasil’ev, M. M. Bubnov, O. N. Egorova, S. L. Semenov, E. V. Pershina 791–793
Control of laser radiation parameters
Compression of a Gaussian pulse in two-mode periodic optical waveguides with a complex refractive index
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 794–798
On the normalisation of the observed spectral gain line profile with increasing optical thickness of a substance layer
N. S. Bukhman 799–802
Effect of regular wavefront perturbations on the structural transformation of laser beams
V. A. Gurashvili, A. M. Zotov, P. V. Korolenko, N. E. Sarkarov 803–805
Continuously pumped Nd3+:YAG laser operating on two locked frequencies
B. I. Galagan, Yu. K. Danileiko, N. N. Il’ichev, A. V. Masalov, V. Ya. Molchanov, V. A. Chikov 806–808
Nonlinear optical phenomena
On the problem of controlled virtual refractive index
A. N. Oraevsky, I. E. Protsenko, A. Botero 809–814
Photorefractive effect and photoinduced quadratic nonlinear susceptibility in germanosilicate fibres fabricated in nitrogen and helium atmospheres by the MCVD technique
S. A. Vasil’ev, N. N. Vechkanov, E. M. Dianov, A. N. Gur’yanov, V. M. Mashinsky, O. I. Medvedkov, O. D. Sazhin, V. F. Khopin, Yu. P. Yatsenko 815–820
Cooperative interaction of dressed atoms with a quantised mode of the electromagnetic field
M. Z. Smirnov 821–823
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Babinet principle and diffraction losses in laser resonators
V. V. Kubarev 824–826
Dynamics of the egress of gas microbubbles from a melt under laser irradiation of a metal surface
V. V. Likhanskii, A. I. Loboiko 827–832
Laser receiver with a quantum detection limit in the near-IR range
Yu. F. Kutaev, S. K. Mankevich, O. Yu. Nosach, E. P. Orlov 833–838
New potentialities of a broadband femtosecond optical parametric oscillator for remote sensing multicomponent aerosol and gaseous atmospheric pollutions
V. M. Gordienko, A. I. Kholodnykh, V. I. Pryalkin 839–842
Laser guiding of cold atoms in photonic crystals
A. V. Tarasishin, A. M. Zheltikov, S. A. Magnitskiy, V. A. Shuvaev 843–846