Invited paper
High-power mobile chemical lasers
A. S. Boreysho 393–406
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Competition between linear and nonlinear processes during generation of pulsed terahertz radiation in a ZnTe crystal
V. Ya. Gayvoronsky, M. M. Nazarov, D. A. Sapozhnikov, Y. V. Shepelyavyi, S. A. Shkel’nyuk, A. P. Shkurinov, A. V. Shuvaev 407–414
Measurement of the two-photon absorption cross sections of dicyanomethylene-pyrans by the z-scan method
S. S. Chunosova, V. A. Svetlichnyi, Yu. P. Meshalkin 415–418
Fibre optics
Formation of shock waves in inhomogeneous active fibres
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 419–421
On the mechanism of optical discharge stop in the tapered region of a fibre cladding
R. I. Golyatina, S. I. Yakovlenko 422–424
Laser spectroscopy
Spectral dynamics of intracavity absorption in a pulsed Cr2+:ZnSe laser
V. A. Akimov, V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, M. P. Frolov 425–428
Laser beams
Laser heterodyning of Gaussian beams with partial spatial coherence
G. I. Kozin, A. P. Kuznetsov, M. O. Lebedinskii 429–434
Fibre lasers
Raman fibre lasers based on heavily GeO2-doped fibres
E. M. Dianov, I. A. Bufetov, V. M. Mashinsky, A. V. Shubin, O. I. Medvedkov, A. E. Rakitin, M. A. Mel’kumov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur’yanov 435–441
Self-Q-switched ytterbium-doped fibre laser with intracavity spectral conversion
D. A. Grukh, A. E. Levchenko, A. S. Kurkov, V. M. Paramonov 442–444
Diode lasers
Effect of the energy of ion-chemical etching of GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs structures on photoluminescence and degradation of devices
A. V. Zubanov, M. B. Uspenskiy, V. A. Shishkin 445–448
Frequency-stabilised external-cavity semiconductor laser
O. I. Permyakova, A. V. Yakovlev, P. L. Chapovskii 449–453
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Plasma-mediated surface evaporation of an aluminium target in vacuum under UV laser irradiation
V. I. Mazhukin, V. V. Nosov 454–466
Laser plume spectroscopy. 1.Graphite target
V. V. Osipov, V. I. Solomonov, V. V. Platonov, O. A. Snigireva, M. G. Ivanov, V. V. Lisenkov 467–473
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
On the induced release of the energy of isomeric nucleiin a Bose—Einstein condensate
L. A. Rivlin 474–478
Transformation of a femtosecond pulse upon focusing
M. K. Lebedev, Yu. A. Tolmachev, M. V. Frolenkova, A. V. Kytmanov 479–483
Bibliography
A review of the monograph “Copper Vapour Lasers: Design, Characteristics and Applications” by A. G. Grigor’yants, M. A. Kazaryan and N. A. Lyabin (Moscow: Fizmatlit, 2005, 312 pp.)
V. M. Batenin, N. A. Generalov 484
Personalia
Artur Afanas’evich Mak
O. N. Krokhin 485