Letters
Passive Fe2+:ZnSe single-crystal Q switch for 3-μm lasers
A. A. Voronov, V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, V. G. Polushkin, M. P. Frolov 1–2
Invited paper
Polarisation and dispersion properties of light shifts in ultrastable optical frequency standards
V. D. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Pal’chikov, H. Katori, M. Takamoto 3–19
Control of laser radiation parameters
On the possibility of high-frequency modulation of laser radiation by using a deformable mirror
V. V. Kiyko, A. G. Safronov 20–26
Transformation of the spatial coherence of pulsed laser radiation transmitted in the nonlinear regime through a multimode graded-index fibre
A. I. Kitsak, M. A. Kitsak 27–32
Lasers
Wide-aperture excimer laser system
V. F. Losev, B. M. Koval’chuk, V. F. Tarasenko, Yu. N. Panchenko, N. G. Ivanov, I. N. Konovalov, È. N. Abdullin, A. N. Panchenko, J. Liu, V. B. Zorin, V. S. Skakun, V. P. Gubanov, A. S. Stepchenko, V. S. Tolkachev 33–38
Longitudinally diode-pumped 1.06-μm Nd3+:NaLa(MoO4)2 laser without pump-wavelength stabilisation
E. V. Zharikov, D. A. Lis, A. M. Onishchenko, V. A. Romanyuk, K. A. Subbotin, S. N. Ushakov, A. V. Shestakov 39–40
New laser transition in a Pr3+:RbPb2Cl5 crystal in the 2.3—2.5-μm range
A. G. Okhrimchuk, L. N. Butvinа, E. M. Dianov, N. V. Lichkova, V. N. Zagorodnev, A. V. Shestakov 41–44
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Phase matching and frequency-noncritical interactions upon frequency conversion of femtosecond pulses
S. G. Grechin, S. S. Grechin 45–50
Experimental study of nonlinear absorption in polymethine dye solutions by the z-scan method
V. A. Svetlichnyi 51–55
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Quasi-stationary magnetic and electric waves produced by a pulsed shock-wave source
V. N. Tishchenko, I. F. Shaikhislamov 56–60
Optical fibres
Modification of cladding-mode fields upon fibre loading with H2 and its influence on the spectral characteristics of long-period gratings
S. A. Vasil’ev, O. I. Medvedkov, A. S. Bozhkov, I. G. Korolev, E. M. Dianov 61–66
Numerical simulation of photonic-crystal tellurite-tungstate glass fibres used in parametric fibre devices
V. O. Sokolov, V. G. Plotnichenko, V. O. Nazaryants, E. M. Dianov 67–72
Selection of optical modes in multichannel fibre lasers
D. V. Vysotskii, N. N. Ëlkin, A. P. Napartovich 73–75
Modes and beams
Tunable astigmatic π/2 converter of laser modes with a fixed distance between input and output planes
A. A. Malyutin 76–78
Tunable fractional-order Fourier transformer
A. A. Malyutin 79–83
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Production of a highly enriched 176Yb isotope in weight amounts by the atomic-vapour laser isotope separation method
O. I. Andreev, V. I. Derzhiev, V. M. Dyakin, A. G. Egorov, L. A. Mikhal’tsov, V. A. Tarasov, A. I. Tolkachev, Yu. G. Toporov, S. A. Chaushanskii, S. I. Yakovlenko 84–89
Kinematics of bosons in a two-dimensional potential well
L. A. Rivlin 90–93
Personalia
Evgenii Mikhailovich Dianov
Zh. I. Alferov, A. F. Andreev, A. A. Boyarchuk, F. V. Bunkin, V. I. Konov, O. N. Krokhin, A. L. Mikaelyan, V. V. Osiko, Yu. A. Osip’yan, P. P. Pashinin, M. F. Churbanov, I. A. Shcherbakov 94