SPECIAL ISSUE DEVOTED TO THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF A.M. PROKHOROV
Preface to the anniversary issue
I. A. Shcherbakov 581
Development and study of Bragg fibres with a large mode field and low optical losses
M. E. Likhachev, S. L. Semenov, M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov, V. F. Khopin, M. Yu. Salganskii, M. A. Gurjanov, A. N. Gur’yanov, R. Jamier, P. Viale, S. Février, J.-M. Blondy 581–586
CW lasing in Yb3+ : GGG crystals pumped at 0.925 μm
A. M. Belovolov, M. I. Belovolov, E. M. Dianov, V. V. Dudin, M. I. Timoshechkin 587–590
Continuously tunable cw lasing near 2.75 μm in diode-pumped Er3+ : SrF2 and Er3+ : CaF2 crystals
T. T. Basiev, Yu. V. Orlovskii, M. V. Polyachenkova, P. P. Fedorov, S. V. Kuznetsov, V. A. Konyushkin, V. V. Osiko, O. K. Alimov, A. Yu. Dergachev 591–594
Spectral and kinetic properties of Er3+, Yb3+ : Yb3Al5O12 crystals at high temperatures
B. I. Galagan, B. I. Denker, V. V. Osiko, S. E. Sverchkov 595–600
Active laser media based on fianite crystals
Yu. K. Voronko, E. E. Lomonova, V. V. Osiko, A. A. Sobol, S. N. Ushakov, V. E. Shukshin 601–608
Direct amplification of picosecond pulses in F2– : LiF crystals
T. T. Basiev, S. V. Garnov, V. I. Vovchenko, A. Ya. Karasik, S. M. Klimentov, V. A. Konyushkin, S. B. Kravtsov, A. A. Malyutin, A. G. Papashvili, P. A. Pivovarov, D. S. Chunaev 609–611
Four-photon Rayleigh-wing spectroscopy of the aqueous solution of α-chymotrypsin protein
A. F. Bunkin, S. I. Lebedenko, A. A. Nurmatov, S. M. Pershin 612–615
Neodymium-doped graded-index single-crystal fibre lasers
G. A. Bufetova, V. V. Kashin, D.A.Nikolaev, S. Ya. Rusanov, V. F. Seregin, V. B. Tsvetkov, I. A. Shcherbakov, A. A. Yakovlev 616–619
Preparation and study of epitaxial Cr4+ : GGG films for passive Q switches in neodymium lasers
G. A. Bufetova, M. Yu. Gusev, I. A. Ivanov, D.A.Nikolaev, V. F. Seregin, V. B. Tsvetkov, I. A. Shcherbakov 620–623
Mechanism of laser drilling superhigh-aspect-ratio holes in polymers
V. N. Tokarev 624–637
Formation and development dynamics of femtosecond laser microplasma in gases
V. V. Bukin, N. S. Vorob’ev, S. V. Garnov, V. I. Konov, V. I. Lozovoi, A. A. Malyutin, M. Ya. Shchelev, I. S. Yatskovskii 638–645
Self-sustained volume discharge in SF6-based gas mixtures upon the development of shock-wave perturbations of the medium initiated by a pulsed CO2 laser
A. A. Belevtsev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, I. G. Kononov, K. N. Firsov 646–652
Spatial Fourier analysis of modes at the output of a homogeneous restricted system of coupled waveguides
J. Kh. Nurligareev, B. A. Usievich, K. M. Golant, V. A. Sychugov 653–655
RF-excited unstable-resonator planar CO2 laser on all-metal electrode–waveguide structure
A. P. Mineev, S. M. Nefedov, P. P. Pashinin 656–663
Amplification of ultrashort laser pulses upon stimulated Compton scattering in plasma
I. K. Krasyuk, P. P. Pashinin, A. Yu. Semenov 664–672
Laser engine based on the resonance merging of shock waves
V. V. Apollonov, V. N. Tishchenko 673–683
Estimate of pressure produced during explosive boiling of a liquid film on a substrate heated by laser pulses
A. A. Samokhin 684–686
High-resolution line-shape spectroscopy during a laser pulse based on Dual-Broad-Band–CARS interferometry
K. A. Vereshchagin, A. K. Vereschagin, W. Clauss, D. N. Klimenko, M. Oschwald, V. V. Smirnov, O. M. Stel’makh, V. I. Fabelinskyĭ 687–690