Letters
Structural transitions in GaAs during irradiation by a 100-fs laser pulse
S. I. Kudryashov, V. I. Emel’yanov 565–566
On the possibility of controlling the decay rate of low-lying nuclear levels upon excitation in a laser plasma
A. V. Andreev, V. M. Gordienko, A. B. Savel’ev, E. V. Tkalya, O. V. Chutko 567–568
Review
Spontaneous emission of an atom in the presence of nanobodies
V. V. Климов, M. Ducloy, V. S. Letokhov 569–586
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Metastable laser plasma
A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko 587–592
Dissolution in a supercritical liquid as a mechanism of laser ablation of sapphire
S. I. Dolgaev, M. E. Karasev, L. A. Kulevskii, A. V. Simakin, G. A. Shafeev 593–596
A study of resistance of absorbing centres in a Pr2+:CaF2 crystal to high-power laser radiation
N. N. Il’ichev, P. P. Pashinin, È. S. Gulyamova 597–598
Dynamics of two-wave mixing in a film of azocontaining photosensitive LC polymer
A. N. Simonov, M. S. Andreeva, V. I. Shmalgauzen, V. P. Shibaev 599–603
Lasers. Active media
Analysis of the effect of regular and stochastic phase structures on the optical quality of the active medium flow in gas-dynamic lasers
V. O. Kovalevskii, V. V. Lobachev 604–610
Optical pumping of chemical HF lasers on the basis of NF3–H2 and ClF5–H2 mixtures by an open surface discharge in the bleaching-wave mode
M. Yu. Artem’ev, A. S. Bashkin, L. D. Mikheev, V. M. Nesterov, M. Sentis, V. I. Cheremiskin 611–616
Numerical simulation of the active medium and investigation of the pump source for the development of a photochemical XeF(C–A) amplifier of femtosecond optical pulses
G. Ya. Malinovskii, S. B. Mamaev, L. D. Mikheev, T. Yu. Moskalev, M. Sentis, V. I. Cheremiskin, V. I. Yalovoi 617–622
Terawatt femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system
A. A. Babin, A. M. Kiselev, A. M. Sergeev, A. N. Stepanov 623–626
High-power 2.5-W cw AlGaAs/GaAs laser diodes
A. V. Aluev, A. M. Morozyuk, M. Sh. Kobyakova, A. A. Chel’nyi 627–628
Ion – ion recombination in SF6 and in SF6 – C2H6 mixtures for high values of E/N
V. V. Apollonov, A. A. Belevtsev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, A. V. Saifulin, K. N. Firsov 629–633
Generation regimes in a laser with annular aperture
A. P. Zaikin 634–638
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Formation and interaction of nondiffracting beams in a photorefractive medium with diffusion nonlinearity
V. A. Aleshkevich, V. A. Vyslouh, Ya. V. Kartashov 639–642
Doubling microsecond single pulses in a KTP crystal
S. A. Abrosimov, S. G. Grechin, D. G. Kochiev, N. Yu. Maklakova, V. N. Semenenko 643–646
Optical properties of a nonlinear LiInS2 crystal
Yu. M. Andreev, L. G. Geiko, P. P. Geiko, S. G. Grechin 647–648
Effect of a magnetic field on self-modulation oscillations in a ring chip laser
N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, N. I. Naumkin, S. S. Sidorov, V. V. Firsov, S. N. Chekina 649–652
Green function for three-wave coupling problems
N. E. Molevich 653–657
Personalia
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