Review
Nuclear processes in a high-temperature plasma produced by an ultrashort laser pulse
A. V. Andreev, V. M. Gordienko, A. B. Savel’ev 941–956
Lasers and laser media
Repetitively pulsed DF laser with a pulse repetition rate up to 1200 Hz and an average output power of ~25 W
I. L. Butsykin, S. D. Velikanov, P. A. Evdokimov, A. F. Zapol’skii, E. V. Kovalev, B. E. Kodola, I. N. Pegoev 957–961
Stimulated emission from GaAs:Er, O at 1538 nm
P. G. Eliseev, S. V. Gastev, A. Koizumi, Y. Fujiwara, Y. Takeda 962–964
Control of laser radiation parameters
Short pulse formation in a TEA CO2 laser using a CO2 – N2 – H2 gas mixture
M. V. Ivashchenko, A. I. Karapuzikov, I. V. Sherstov 965–969
Spatiotemporal smoothing of a laser beam employing a dynamic plasma phase plate
I. N. Voronich, S. G. Garanin, V. N. Derkach, A. I. Zaretskii, A. G. Kravchenko, V. A. Lebedev, A. V. Pinegin, A. V. Sosipatrov, S. A. Sukharev 970–972
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Nonunidirectional energy exchange upon the steady-state two-wave interaction in a cubic gyrotropic photorefractive crystal in a dc electric field
R. V. Litvinov, S. M. Shandarov 973–980
Intracavity quasi-phase-matched self-frequency conversion in a periodically poled Nd:Mg:LiNbO3 crystal
G. D. Laptev, A. A. Novikov 981–986
Efficiency of anti-Stokes generation in nonstationary stimulated Raman scattering
N. I. Shamrov 987–992
Effect of inhomogeneous optical properties of a nonlinear medium on the propagation of powerful light beams
Ya. M. Zhileikin, A. P. Sukhorukov, E. A. Makarova, M. V. Vladimirov 993–995
Optical fibres
Absorption and luminescence properties of Cr4+-doped silica fibres
V. V. Dvoyrin, E. M. Dianov, V. M. Mashinsky, V. B. Neustruev, A. N. Gur’yanov, A. Yu. Laptev, A. A. Umnikov, M. V. Yashkov, N. S. Vorob’ev 996–998
Fabrication of a long-period grating in a fibre by second-harmonic radiation from a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser
K. A. Zagorul’ko, P. G. Kryukov, Yu. V. Larionov, A. A. Rybaltovsky, E. M. Dianov, N. S. Vorob’ev, A. V. Smirnov, M. Ya. Shchelev, A. M. Prokhorov 999–1002
Electrostriction mechanism of Bragg grating formation in germanosilicate fibres
V. B. Neustruev 1003–1006
Solitons
Optimal control of optical soliton parameters: Part 1. The Lax representation in the problem of soliton management
V. N. Serkin, T. L. Belyaeva 1007–1015
Optimal control of optical soliton parameters: Part 2. Concept of nonlinear Bloch waves in the problem of soliton management
V. N. Serkin, T. L. Belyaeva 1016–1022
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Acousto-optic tomography using amplitude-modulated focused ultrasound and a near-IR laser
Y. Yao, D. Xing, Y. He, K. Ueda 1023–1026
Study of relaxation times of polymethine dyes used for passive mode locking of solid-state lasers emitting between 750 and 850 nm
R. Grigonis, N. A. Derevyanko, A. A. Ishchenko, V. A. Sirutkaitis 1027–1031
Talbot effect in Gaussian optical systems
V. P. Kandidov, A. V. Kondratyev 1032–1034