Letters
Change in the spectrum of optical whispering-gallery modes in a quasi-cylindrical microresonator caused by an acoustic pressure pulse
V. A. Bogatyrev, V. I. Vovchenko, I. K. Krasyuk, V. A. Oboev, A. Yu. Semenov, V. A. Sychugov, V. P. Torchigin 471–472
Defect-deformation mechanism of spontaneous nucleation of an ensemble of pores in solids and its experimental verification
V. I. Emel’yanov, K. I. Eremin, V. V. Starkov 473–475
Catastrophic destruction of optical fibres of various composition caused by laser radiation
E. M. Dianov, I. A. Bufetov, A. A. Frolov, V. G. Plotnichenko, V. M. Mashinsky, M. F. Churbanov, G. E. Snopatin 476–478
Invited paper
Analysis of the amplitude – phase parameters of time-dependent optical signals and transfer functions
V. A. Zubov 479–484
Active media
Mechanism of dark decomposition of iodine donor in the active medium of a pulsed chemical oxygen — iodine laser
T. L. Andreeva, S. V. Kuznetsova, A. I. Maslov, V. N. Sorokin 485–489
A study of a singlet-oxygen generator with a twisted aerosol flow
A. A. Adamenkov, B. A. Vyskubenko, S. P. Il’in, I. M. Krukovskii 490–494
Lasers
Generation of hard quanta in the cross-grooved resonator of a free electron laser
F. F. Baryshnikov, V. V. Perebeinos, N. V. Cheburkin 495–500
Overtone cw chemical HF laser with an extended active medium
I. A. Fedorov, S. V. Konkin, Yu. P. Maksimov, V. K. Rebone, N. E. Tret’yakov, A. L. Etsina 501–505
Scaling of repetitively pulsed electric-discharge wide-aperture lasers
A. V. Andramanov, S. A. Kabaev, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, V. D. Selemir 506–510
Femtosecond Cr4+:forsterite laser pumped by ytterbium-doped fibre laser and its noise characteristics
V. M. Gordienko, A. A. Ivanov, A. N. Konovalov, A. A. Podshivalov, V. I. Pryalkin, A. B. Savel’ev 511–515
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Ion drift in a magnetic field under the combined action of LID and light pressure
A. I. Parkhomenko 516–522
Experimental simulation of a laser lightning-protection system on a device with an artificial cloud of charged aqueous aerosol
V. V. Apollonov, L. M. Vasilyak, I. P. Vereshchagin, V. V. Glazkov, D. N. Gerasimov, I. G. Kononov, A. V. Orlov, D. N. Polyakov, O. A. Sinkevich, M. V. Sokolova, A. G. Temnikov, K. N. Firsov 523–527
Effect of intracavity light-erosion plasma on the output parameters of a tunable laser
A. N. Kolerov 528–530
A narrow-band optical filter based on a corrugated one-dimensional photonic crystal
B. A. Usievich, V. A. Sychugov 531–534
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Interaction of light waves of arbitrary polarisation on a photorefractive grating in a cubic gyrotropic crystal in an external alternating electric field
R. V. Litvinov 535–541
Localisation of light and spectral broadening of femtosecond laser pulses in a fibre with a minimal-microstructure cladding
A. M. Zheltikov, P. Zhou, V. V. Temnov, Yu. N. Kondrat’ev, S. N. Bagayev, V. S. Shevandin, K. V. Dukelskii, A. V. Khokhlov, V. B. Smirnov, A. P. Tarasevitch, D. Linde 542–544
Control of laser radiation parameters
Formation of the fundamental transverse mode in the resonator of a laser with electrooptical reflecting gate during autoinjection of initiating radiation
B. N. Tyushkevich, O. V. Rybakovskii, Yu. B. Tyushkevich 545–546
Phase correction of radiation emitted by a powerful industrial laser with higher mode selection
M. G. Galushkin, P. V. Korolenko, V. G. Makarov, A. T. Polosko, V. P. Yakunin 547–552
Injection lasers with a discretely scanned radiation pattern
A. S. Logginov, K. I. Plisov 553–556
Formation of a narrow beam from an excimer laser pumped by gamma rays
B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan 557–561
Frequency locking of self-modulated oscillations and hysteresis of a nonautonomous two-directional ring solid-state laser
N. V. Kravtsov, P. P. Pashinin, S. S. Sidorov, V. V. Firsov 562–564