2003, vol 33, number 5

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Letters

Whether is it possible to produce high concentrations of carriers in a semiconductor for observing the Bose condensate at room temperature?
A. N. Oraevsky 377–379

A miracle happening to a laser beam in a soap film
A. V. Startsev, Yu. Yu. Stoilov 380–382

Review

Optical frequency standards and femtosecond lasers
E. V. Baklanov, P. V. Pokasov 383–400

Lasers

Efficient oscillation regimes of an HF laser pumped by a nonchain chemical reaction initiated by a self-sustained discharge
A. N. Panchenko, V. M. Orlovskii, V. F. Tarasenko, E. Kh. Baksht 401–407

Efficient lasing of a Cr2+ : ZnSe crystal grown from a vapour phase
V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, M. P. Frolov 408–410

Self-terminated laser amplifier with an enhanced peak output pulse power
V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov 411–415

UV lasing in a multipass copper vapour amplifier – nonlinear crystal system
V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov 416–418

Control of laser radiation parameters

Non-self-sustained slab discharge as an efficient method for exciting an active laser medium
A. V. Azarov, S. V. Mit’ko, V. N. Ochkin, S. Yu. Savinov 419–424

Effect of parasitic elements of a ridge laser on its modulation characteristic
A. V. Ivanov, V. D. Kurnosov, K. V. Kurnosov, A. V. Lobintsov, V. I. Romantsevich, R. V. Chernov 425–429

Optically controlled spherical liquid-crystal lens: theory and experiment
I. R. Guralnik, S. A. Samagin 430–434

Interaction of laser radiation with matter

Stability of the front of laser evaporation of metals under conditions of limited vapour expansion
I. N. Kartashov, A. A. Samokhin 435–440

Nonlinear optical phenomena

Nonlinear refraction in an epoxy-based polymer with 4-aminoazobenzene caused by the orientation of azobenzene molecules upon pulsed laser excitation
A. A. Borsch, M. S. Brodin, V. I. Volkov, V. R. Lyakhovetskii, A. S. Kutsenko 441–445

Effect of optical activity on the self-focusing of light beams in cubic photorefractive crystals
V. V. Shepelevich, R. Kovarshik, A. Kisling, V. Matusevich, A. A. Golub 446–450

Study of surface plasmons with a scanning acoustic microscope
J. Bereiter-Hahn, C. Blase, Yu. E. Lozovik, M. M. Nazarov, A. P. Shkurinov 451–455

Solitons

Stimulated Raman self-scattering of femtosecond pulses. II. The self-compression of Schrödinger solitons in a spectrally inhomogeneous dispersion medium
V. N. Serkin, T. L. Belyaeva, G. H. Corro, M. Agüero Granados 456–459

Stimulated decay of N-soliton pulses and optimal separation of one-soliton components
V. A. Aleshkevich, V. A. Vyslouh, A. S. Zhukarev, Ya. V. Kartashov, P. V. Sinilo 460–464

Waveguide Holography

Influence of planar waveguide parameters on the quality of a two-dimensional waveguide-hologram image
I. V. Gustomyasov, A. N. Putilin, A. V. Chernopyatov 465–470