Letters
A pulsating optical discharge moving in a gas
G. N. Grachev, A. G. Ponomarenko, A. L. Smirnov, P. A. Statsenko, V. N. Tishchenko, S. I. Trashkeev 973–975
Invited paper
Laser apparatus for surgery and force therapy based on high-power semiconductor and fibre lasers
V. P. Minaev 976–983
Active media
Evaluating the prospects of exciting the Xe2Cl active medium by laser radiation for amplifying femtosecond pulses
L. D. Mikheev 984–986
Optical pumping of the N2O–He and N2O–CO2–He mixtures by a pulsed multifrequency HF laser for producing active media to amplify 10-μm high-power ultrashort pulses
B. G. Bravy, E. F. Makarov, Yu. A. Chernyshev 987–992
Lasers
Conversion of the “Iskra-5” iodine laser to second-harmonic operating mode
V. I. Annenkov, V. I. Bespalov, V. I. Bredikhin, L. M. Vinogradskiy, V. A. Gaidash, I. V. Galakhov, S. G. Garanin, V. P. Ershov, N. V. Zhidkov, V. V. Zil’berberg, A. V. Zubkov, S. V. Kalipanov, V. A. Kargin, G. A. Kirillov, V. P. Kovalenko, G. G. Kochemasov, A. G. Kravchenko, V. A. Krotov, V. P. Lazarchuk, S. G. Lapin, V. M. Loginov, S. L. Logutenko, V. M. Murugov, V. A. Osin, V. I. Pankratov, M. Yu. Romashov, A. V. Ryadov, S. K. Sobolev, I. I. Solomatin, G. V. Tachaev, V. S. Faizullin, V. A. Khrustalev, N. M. Khudikov, V. S. Chebotar 993–995
Pump radiation distribution in multi-element first cladding laser fibres
M. A. Mel’kumov, I. A. Bufetov, M. M. Bubnov, A. V. Shubin, S. L. Semenov, E. M. Dianov 996–1002
Optical amplifiers
Propagation of a partially coherent laser beam through the inhomogeneous medium of an optical amplifier
A. V. Gulevich, D. V. Evtodiev, O. F. Kukharchuk, A. A. Suvorov 1003–1008
Optimal detection of partially spatial coherent radiation by using optical quantum amplifiers
G. I. Kozin, A. P. Kuznetsov 1009–1012
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Formation of extended plasma channels in a condensed medium upon axicon focusing of a femtosecond laser pulse
O. G. Kosareva, A. V. Grigor’evskii, V. P. Kandidov 1013–1014
Doppler effect for an optical discharge source of shock waves
V. N. Tishchenko 1015–1018
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Continuous Stokes self-scattering of an optical pulse in a uniaxial crystal in the case of Zakharov–Benney resonance
S. V. Sazonov, A. F. Sobolevskii 1019–1026
Nonlinear absorption spectrum in the field of a weakly saturating standing wave
O. V. Belai, D. A. Shapiro, S. N. Yakovenko 1027–1032
On the theory of signal filtration in a bistable moderately dissipating oscillatory system
A. N. Dombrovskii, S. A. Reshetnyak, V. A. Shcheglov 1033–1038
Role of degeneration processes in picosecond nonlinear spectroscopy of HTSCs
Yu. V. Bobyrev, V. M. Petnikova, K. V. Rudenko, V. V. Shuvalov 1039–1041
Laser beams
Calculation of the laser-beam M2 factor by the method of moments
A. K. Potemkin, E. A. Khazanov 1042–1044
On alternative methods for measuring the radius and propagation ratio of axially symmetric laser beams
A. S. Dement’ev, A. Jovaiša, G. Šilko, R. J. Čiegis 1045–1052
Control of laser radiation parameters
Method for calculating a negative-dispersion resonator-type multilayer mirror
P. A. Kholokhonova, G. V. Erg 1053–1056
Tunable acousto-optic filters with the multiple interaction of light and sound
V. B. Voloshinov, L. N. Magdich, G. A. Knyazev 1057–1063
Compact prisms for polarisation splitting of fibre laser beams
B. L. Davydov, D. I. Yagodkin 1064–1070
A LiNbO3 switch for fibre lasers
B. L. Davydov, D. I. Yagodkin 1071–1074
Laser applications in medicine
Effect of glucose concentration in a model light-scattering suspension on propagation of ultrashort laser pulses
A. P. Popov, A. V. Priezzhev, R. A. Myllylä 1075–1078
Analysis of distortions in the velocity profiles of suspension flows inside a light-scattering medium upon their reconstruction from the optical coherence Doppler tomograph signal
A. V. Bykov, M. Yu. Kirillin, A. V. Priezzhev 1079–1082