Special issue devoted to the 80th anniversary of academician N. G. Basov’s birth
To the memory of Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
O. N. Krokhin 1036–1037
Academician Nikolai G. Basov: the Father of inertial fusion. A scientific and human approach
G. Velarde 1038–1040
Coherence and lasers
A. N. Oraevsky 1041–1047
Academician Basov, high-power lasers and the antimissile defence problem
P. V. Zarubin 1048–1064
Astrophysical lasers
V. S. Letokhov 1065–1079
Interlayer electrodynamics of high-Tc superconductors: an experimental overview
D. N. Basov 1080–1084
Semiconductor lasers: from homojunctions to quantum dots
P. G. Eliseev 1085–1098
High-power single-transverse-mode ridge optical waveguide semiconductor lasers
V. V. Popovichev, E. I. Davydova, A. A. Marmalyuk, A. V. Simakov, M. B. Uspenskiy, A. A. Chel’nyi, A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Drakin, S. A. Plisyuk, A. A. Stratonnikov 1099–1104
Coherent electron — hole state and femtosecond cooperative emission in bulk GaAs
P. P. Vasil’ev, H. Kan, H. Ohta, T. Hiruma 1105–1112
Multilayer X-ray optics
A. V. Vinogradov 1113–1121
Photochemical lasers on electronic molecular transitions
L. D. Mikheev 1122–1132