Review
Ultrashort-pulse lasers
P. G. Kryukov 95–119
Invited paper
Nanostructures in laser experiments
V. S. Zuev, A. V. Frantsesson 120–126
Lasers
Pulsed chemical oxygen – iodine laser initiated by a transverse electric discharge
N. P. Vagin, N. N. Yuryshev 127–131
Tunable narrow-band UV laser system pumped by a copper vapour laser
P. A. Bokhan, D. È. Zakrevskii, S. A. Kochubei, A. Yu. Stepanov, N. V. Fateev 132–134
On the possibility of obtaining high energy parameters from an IR-initiated thermal-chain explosion H2 – F2 laser
V. I. Igoshin, S. Yu. Pichugin, I. L. Stukalina 135–138
Specific features of lasing in Ti3+: Al2O3 crystals pumped by two pulses of a Nd:YAG laser
Yu. V. Zaporozhchenko, R. G. Zaporozhchenko, V. S. Mezen, N. A. Tylets 139–142
Control of laser radiation parameters
Nonlinear phase shift and frequency jumps in second-harmonic generation in a dual-cavity laser
I. I. Zolotoverkh, E. G. Lariontsev 143–146
Synchronisation of unidirectionally coupled two-frequency chaotic lasers
A. P. Napartovich, A. G. Sukharev 147–153
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Laser-induced self-organisation of coupled thermodeformation fields on surfaces of solids
V. I. Emel’yanov, K. I. Eremin 154–158
Probe-assisted study of the erosion plume upon the ablation of tantalum in vacuum by the 308-nm excimer laser radiation
O. A. Novodvorskii, E. O. Filippova, O. D. Khramova, A. K. Shevelev, C. Wenzel, J. W. Bartha 159–163
Nonlinear optical phenomena
The possibility of enhancing light squeezing by cascade parametric oscillation
E. G. Lariontsev 164–166
Self-excitation of mutually phase-conjugated light waves in a cubic gyrotropic photorefractive crystal subjected to a square-wave electric field
R. V. Litvinov, S. A. Polkovnikov, S. M. Shandarov 167–172
Third-harmonic generation in the field of ultrashort laser pulses in leaky modes of a gas-filled hollow fibre
O. A. Kolevatova, A. N. Naumov, A. M. Zheltikov 173–178
High-order harmonic generation by multielectron atoms in the field of a relativistic-intensity standing electromagnetic wave
V. D. Taranukhin, N. Yu. Shubin 179–184
Third-harmonic generation of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser in colloidal solutions of platinum and copper
R. A. Ganeev, A. I. Ryasnyansky, T. B. Usmanov 185–186
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Luminescence of Ti3+ ions in silica glass
E. M. Dianov, V. F. Lebedev, Yu. S. Zavorotnyi 187–188