Invited paper
Diagnostics of the inhomogeneous distribution of quadratic optical susceptibility over parametric scattering spectra
G. Kh. Kitaeva, A. N. Penin 597–611
Quantum nucleonics
Quantum nucleonics: Status and prospects
L. A. Rivlin 612–616
Lasers, active media
Up-conversion and excitation energy transfer between impurity ions in Pr3+ : Y2SiO5, Pr3+ : Lu2SiO5, and Pr3+ : Gd2SiO5 crystals
N. V. Znamenskiy, E. A. Manykin, Yu. V. Orlov, E. A. Petrenko, T. G. Yukina, Yu. V. Malyukin, P. N. Zhmurin, A. N. Lebedenko, A. A. Masalov 617–622
Study of mode locking in a microwave-pumped diode laser close to the generation threshold
S. N. Bagayev, V. F. Zakharyash, A. V. Kashirsky, V. M. Klementyev, S. A. Kuznetsov, V. S. Pivtsov 623–624
Experimental investigation of the effect of HBr additions on the lasing characteristics of a CuBr laser
D. V. Shiyanov, V. B. Sukhanov, G. S. Evtushenko, O. S. Andrienko 625–629
Dynamics of a delayed-feedback semiconductor laser depending on the number of stationary solutions
A. P. Napartovich, A. G. Sukharev 630–638
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Axially symmetric loop phase-conjugation scheme with broadband longitudinally dispersed light beams
V. I. Odintsov 639–643
Nonlinear optical properties of colloidal silver nanoparticles produced by laser ablation in liquids
V. A. Karavanskii, A. V. Simakin, V. I. Krasovskii, P. V. Ivanchenko 644–648
High-average-power SRS conversion of radiation in a BaWO4 crystal
T. T. Basiev, A. V. Gavrilov, V. V. Osiko, S. N. Smetanin, A. V. Fedin 649–651
Features of evolution of a 0π pulse in a medium with an inhomogeneously broadened resonance quantum transition
A. E. Dmitriev, O. M. Parshkov 652–656
Components of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility tensors in KDP, DKDP and LiNbO3 nonlinear optical crystals
I. A. Kulagin, R. A. Ganeev, R. I. Tugushev, A. I. Ryasnyansky, T. B. Usmanov 657–662
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Coulomb explosion of deuterium clusters in a magnetic trap and generation of neutrons
D. F. Zaretsky 663–665
Scattering of light pulses
Optical heterodyning study of the propagation dynamics of IR femtosecond laser pulses in a strongly scattering porous medium
K. P. Bestem’yanov, V. M. Gordienko, A. A. Ivanov, A. N. Konovalov, A. A. Podshivalov 666–668
Fibreoptic devices
Enhancement of the sensitivity of a recirculation fibre ring interferometer with pulsed pumping of an intracavity optical erbium-doped fibre amplifier
È. I. Alekseev, E. N. Bazarov, V. P. Gubin, A. I. Sazonov, N. I. Starostin, A. I. Oussov 669–672
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Electrophysical and optical properties of spherical and cylindrical liquid-crystal optically addressed lenses
I. R. Guralnik, S. A. Samagin 673–678
Measurements of the xenon density in a pulsed jet from absorption of monochromatic soft X-rays
A. S. Boldarev, V. A. Gasilov, V. E. Levashov, K. N. Mednikov, A. S. Pirozhkov, M. S. Pirozhkova, E. N. Ragozin 679–684
Dipole traps for neutral atoms formed by nonuniformly polarised Laguerre modes
A. V. Bezverbny, V. G. Niziev, A. M. Tumaikin 685–689