Letters
Microobject manipulation by laser beams with a nonzero orbital momentum
V. G. Volostnikov, S. P. Kotova, N. N. Losevskii, M. A. Rakhmatulin 565–566
Negative group velocity of a light pulse in cesium vapour
A. M. Akulshin, A. Cimmino, G. I. Opat 567–569
Invited paper
Some new trends in laser isotope separation in atomic vapours
P. A. Bokhan, V. V. Buchanov, D. È. Zakrevskii, M. A. Kazaryan, M. M. Kalugin, A. M. Prokhorov, N. V. Fateev 570–586
Lasers
General criteria for the feasibility of nuclear gamma-laser experiment
L. A. Rivlin 587–592
Analysis of the emission parameters of low-power superluminescent diodes in the temperature range from -55°C to +93°C
D. S. Mamedov, V. V. Prokhorov, M. V. Shramenko, S. D. Yakubovich 593–596
A tunable diode laser emitting orthogonally polarised radiation modes
A. B. Fadyushin, V. L. Velichansky, M. D. Lukin, N. V. Senkov, M. O. Sculli, M. Fleischauer 597–601
Effect of matching of a power supply with a laser tube and of pumping conditions on the relaxation of metastable states and the frequency – energy parameters of a copper vapour laser
P. A. Bokhan, D. È. Zakrevskii 602–608
A pulsed oxygen – iodine chemical laser excited by a longitudinal electric discharge
N. P. Vagin, N. N. Yuryshev 609–613
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
The use of Zeeman effect for increasing the selectivity of laser isotope separation
A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko 614–618
Two-step photoionisation of palladium
V. I. Derzhiev, V. M. Dyakin, R. I. Ilkaev, L. A. Mikhal’tsov, V. D. Selemir, I. I. Sidorov, A. N. Tkachev, S. A. Chaushanskii, S. I. Yakovlenko 619–622
Efficiency of various mechanisms of the laser damage in transparent solids
M. F. Koldunov, A. A. Manenkov, I. L. Pokotilo 623–628
Nonlinear optical phenomena
On the theory of the SBS linewidth in a two ion-species plasma
K. Yu. Vagin, K. N. Ovchinnikov, V. P. Silin, S. A. Uryupin 629–635
Effect of resonance mixing of states of a three-level system on the emergence of multiphoton transitions from them
I. I. Bondar’, V. V. Suran 636–638
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Experimental investigations of the influence of a tapered fibre on the stability of the intermode frequency of highly stable femtosecond pulses
S. N. Bagayev, A. M. Goncharenko, V. F. Zakharyash, V. M. Klementyev, D. B. Kolker, S. A. Kuznetsov, Yu. A. Matyugin, V. S. Pivtsov, S. V. Chepurov, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, P. J. Russell 639–640
Waveguide characteristics of single-mode microstructural fibres with a complicated refractive index distribution profile
A. V. Belov, E. M. Dianov 641–644
On losses and spatial mode characteristics of a wide-aperture Fabry–Perot resonator upon a periodic spatial perturbation of the field phase at one of the mirrors
N. N. Ëlkin, V. I. Ledenev 645–646
Influence of temperature on the collision broadening of IR spectral lines of CO2 molecules
S. N. Andreev, V. N. Ochkin, S. Yu. Savinov 647–653
Phase dynamics of radiation in chaotic lasing regimes of a solid-state ring laser
L. A. Kotomtseva, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 654–658