2003, vol 33, number 4

Review

Phase locking of optically coupled lasers
A. F. Glova 283–306

Lasers

A 12-kW continuous-wave chemical oxygen-iodine laser
A. S. Boreysho, V. M. Mal’kov, A. V. Savin, D. N. Vasil’ev, I. M. Evdokimov, A. V. Trilis, S. Yu. Strakhov 307–311

Estimation of the saturation energy density in a 2.92-μm Q-switched single-frequency Cr³⁺:Yb³⁺:Ho³⁺ laser
N. N. Il’ichev, L. A. Kulevskii, V. N. Tranev 312–314

Mechanism of lasing at the 5s^{2 2}D_5/2 – 5p ²P_3/2 transition in Cd II at anomalously low temperatures of the active medium
A. V. Karelin 315–316

Control of laser radiation parameters

Frequency conversion of femtosecond Cr:forsterite-laser pulses in a tapered fibre
D. A. Akimov, A. A. Ivanov, M. V. Alfimov, A. B. Fedotov, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, P. S. Russell, O. A. Kolevatova, S. O. Konorov, A. A. Podshivalov, A. N. Petrov, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. M. Zheltikov 317–320

Suppression of chaotic oscillations in a solid-state ring laser by a magnetic field
N. V. Kravtsov, P. P. Pashinin, S. S. Sidorov, S. N. Chekina, V. V. Firsov 321–324

Nonlinear optical phenomena

Stimulated Raman self-scattering of femtosecond pulses. I. Soliton and non-soliton regimes of coherent self-scattering
V. N. Serkin, T. L. Belyaeva, G. H. Corro, M. Agüero Granados 325–330

Stimulated Raman scattering of picosecond pulses in SrMoO₄ and Ca₃(VO₄)₂ crystals
P. G. Zverev, A. Ya. Karasik, T. T. Basiev, L. I. Ivleva, V. V. Osiko 331–334

Waveguides

Reconstruction of the experimental autocorrelation function and determination of the parameters of the statistical roughness of a surface from laser radiation scattering in an integrated-optical waveguide
A. A. Egorov 335–341

Light propagation in an array of rectilinear and curvilinear coupled channel waveguides
A. A. Goncharov, K. K. Svidzinsky, V. A. Sychugov, B. A. Usievich 342–348

On the theory of whispering-gallery modes in a spherical layer
D. V. Guzatov, A. N. Oraevsky 349–356

Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Measurement of diffusion of fluorescent molecules in living cells
S. A. Tatarkova, C. Lloyd, D. Berk 357–362

Analysis of the temperature dependence of the ratio of intensities of beams transmitted and reflected by a germanium beamsplitter
B. I. Vasil’ev, A. M. Velichko, A. V. Vnukov, K. K. Mal’tsev, A. I. Nikitin, T. F. Nikitina 363–366

New method for measuring the focal distance of a thermal lens in solid-state lasers with a short active medium
N. V. Vedyashkin, S. I. Derzhavin, V. V. Kuz’minov, D. A. Mashkovskii 367–369

Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Deformation of the spectrum of a short intense laser pulse interacting with matter
M. V. Chegotov 370–376