Selected papers reported at the conference ‘Laser Optics 2006’
Deformable mirror based on piezoelectric actuators for the adaptive system of the Iskra-6 facility
S. Yu. Bokalo, S. G. Garanin, S. V. Grigorovich, V. G. Zhupanov, M. O. Koltygin, S. M. Kulikov, D. M. Lyakhov, A. N. Manachinckii, P. P. Mizin, A. V. Ogorodnikov, V. P. Smekalin, S. P. Smyshlyaev, S. A. Sukharev, O. I. Shanin, V. I. Shchipalkin 691–696
Development of a yearlong maintenance-free terawatt Ti:Sapphire laser system with a 3D UV-pulse shaping system for THG
H. Tomizawa, H. Dewa, H. Hanaki, F. Matsui 697–705
Radiation resistance of optical materials for windows of UV and VUV excimer lasers
P. B. Sergeev, A. P. Sergeev, V. D. Zvorykin 706–710
Effect of KrF laser radiation on electron-beam-induced absorption in fluorite and quartz glasses
P. B. Sergeev, A. P. Sergeev, V. D. Zvorykin 711–715
Phase conjugation of low-intensity laser radiation in a scheme with a thin dynamic hologram and TV transmission of interferometric information
A. A. Leshchev, V. A. Berenberg, M. V. Vasil’ev, V. Yu. Venediktov, N. L. Ivanova, Yu. A. Petrushin, P. M. Semenov, N. N. Freigang 716–719
Study of velocities of dissipative Bragg solitons beyond the slowly-varying amplitude approximation
N. N. Rosanov, X. T. Tran 720–722
Invited paper
Nuclear gamma-ray laser: the evolution of the idea
L. A. Rivlin 723–744
Active media. Lasers
Output power of a ridge semiconductor laser in the single-frequency regime
D. V. Batrak, A. P. Bogatov 745–752
Diode-pumped solid-state Nd3+:Ca3Ga2Ge3O12 crystal lasers
M. I. Belovolov, S. I. Derzhavin, D. A. Mashkovskii, K. S. Sal’nikov, N. N. Sysoev, M. I. Timoshechkin, A. F. Shatalov 753–759
Silicate-matrix active media for tunable solid-state lasers
R. T. Kuznetsova, G. V. Maier, Yu. A. Manekina, E. N. Tel’minov, S. M. Arabei, T. A. Pavich, K. N. Solov’ev 760–764
Energy characteristics of radiation from a KULON-10 Cu-M self-heated technological laser
N. M. Lepekhin, Yu. S. Priseko, V. G. Filippov, V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov, N. A. Lyabin, A. D. Chursin 765–769
Fiber and integrated optics
Efficiency of nonstationary transformation of the spatial coherence of pulsed laser radiation in a multimode optical fibre upon self-phase modulation
M. A. Kitsak, A. I. Kitsak 770–774
New type of heterogeneous nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides
A. V. Tsarev 775–776
Laser methods in biology
Optical anisotropy of fibrous biological tissues: analysis of the influence of structural properties
D. A. Zimnyakov, Yu. P. Sinichkin, O. V. Ushakova 777–783
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Model of mixing of shells of a thermonuclear laser target upon spherical compression
N. V. Zmitrenko, N. G. Proncheva, V. B. Rozanov, R. A. Yakhin 784–791
Solitons
Nonreciprocal dynamics of pulses in a nonlinear inhomogeneous fibre
M. S. Adamova, I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 792–797
Laser applications
Laser air-jet engine: the action of shock waves at low laser pulse repetition rates
V. V. Apollonov, V. N. Tishchenko 798–800