Lasers
Channel of a high-power laser fusion Luch facility emitting 3.3-kJ, and 4-ns pulses
S. G. Garanin, A. I. Zaretskii, R. I. Ilkaev, G. A. Kirillov, G. G. Kochemasov, R. F. Kurunov, V. M. Murugov, S. A. Sukharev 299–301
Compact neodymium phosphate glass laser emitting 100-J, 100-GW pulses for pumping a parametric amplifier of chirped pulses
A. K. Potemkin, E. V. Katin, A. V. Kirsanov, G. A. Luchinin, A. N. Mal’shakov, M. A. Mart’yanov, A. Z. Matveev, O. V. Palashov, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 302–310
Compact 4-kHz XeF laser with a multisectional discharge gap
A. V. Andramanov, S. A. Kabaev, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, V. D. Selemir 311–315
Simulation of the material gain in quantum-well InGaAs layers used in 1.06-μm heterolasers
D. V. Batrak, S. A. Bogatova, A. V. Borodaenko, A. E. Drakin, A. P. Bogatov 316–322
Temperature dependence of the radiation wavelength of a fibre laser
M. Yu. Vyatkin, S. P. Grabarnik, O. A. Ryabushkin 323–327
Yb-, Er–Yb-, and Nd-doped fibre lasers based on multi-element first cladding fibres
I. A. Bufetov, M. M. Bubnov, M. A. Mel’kumov, V. V. Dudin, A. V. Shubin, S. L. Semenov, K. S. Kravtsov, A. N. Gur’yanov, M. V. Yashkov, E. M. Dianov 328–334
Effect of the spectral broadening of the first Stokes component on the efficiency of a two-stage Raman converter
O. N. Egorova, A. S. Kurkov, O. I. Medvedkov, V. M. Paramonov, E. M. Dianov 335–338
Ytterbium-doped fibre laser with a Bragg grating reflector written in a multimode fibre
A. S. Kurkov, D. A. Grukh, O. I. Medvedkov, V. M. Paramonov, E. M. Dianov 339–340
Measurements of the small-signal gain and saturation intensity for a cw CO2 laser using an intracavity loss element
M. Aram, F. Soltanmoradi, S. Ghafori, A. Behjat 341–343
Amplification of picosecond pulses in F2-:LiF crystals synchronously pumped by picosecondand nanosecond laser pulses
T. T. Basiev, A. Ya. Karasik, V. A. Konyushkin, V. V. Osiko, A. G. Papashvili, D. S. Chunaev 344–346
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Formation of a coupled state in a laser plume
N. E. Kask, S. V. Michurin, G. M. Fedorov, D. B. Chopornyak 347–350
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Interaction of screening solitons in cubic optically active photorefractive crystals
V. V. Shepelevich, A. A. Golub, R. Kovarshik, A. Kisling, V. Matusevich 351–355
Beams, modes
Approximate orthogonality relation for the modes of an open cavity
D. V. Batrak, A. P. Bogatov 356–358
Formation of the beam profile in a plate electrode HF laser
A. V. Andramanov, S. A. Kabaev, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, A. V. Pisetskaya, V. D. Selemir 359–364
Coherence
Transformation of spatial coherence of pulse laser radiation in a thin layer of a medium with thermal nonlinearity
E. V. Ivakin, N. V. Karelin, A. I. Kitsak, A. S. Rubanov 365–368
On the ability of cells to distinguish the coherence of optical radiation
A. V. Budagovsky 369–374
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Application of a submillimetre HCN laser for determining the electrodynamic parameters of one-dimensional wire gratings
Yu. E. Kamenev, S. A. Masalov, A. A. Filimonova 375–377
Measurement of the O2 (b1Σg+ → a1Δg) transition probability by the method of intracavity laser spectroscopy
N. P. Vagin, A. A. Ionin, I. V. Kochetov, A. P. Napartovich, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, M. P. Frolov, N. N. Yuryshev 378–384
A laser plasmotron for chamberless deposition of diamond films
A. P. Bol’shakov, V. G. Vostrikov, V. Yu. Dubrovskii, V. I. Konov, F. K. Kosyrev, V. G. Naumov, V. G. Ral’chenko 385–389
On the super-narrow gamma lines of nuclei in a Bose–Einstein condensate
L. A. Rivlin 390–392