Letters
Laser-induced preparation of volume nanocompositions in aqueous albumin solutions
V. M. Podgaetsky, V. V. Savranskii, M. M. Simunin, M. A. Kononov 801–803
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Parametric interaction in deeply purified water in a high-power optical radiation field. Degassing effect
V. A. Babenko, N. F. Bunkin, N. V. Suyazov, A. A. Sychev 804–812
Numerical simulation of the evolution of an intense 0π pulse and formation of an optical breather at the inhomogeneously broadened resonance quantum transition
O. M. Parshkov 813–820
On the role of thermal nonlinearity in degenerate interactions in saturated laser media
V. V. Tumorin, N. N. Il’ichev 821–826
Peculiarities of single harmonic amplification upon generation of higher harmonics in a GaAs plasma
R. A. Ganeev, H. Sunghal, P. A. Naik, P. D. Gupta 827–830
Lasers
Active-medium inhomogeneities and optical quality of radiation of supersonic chemical oxygen–iodine lasers
A. S. Boreysho, S. L. Druzhinin, V. V. Lobachev, A. V. Savin, S. Yu. Strakhov, A. V. Trilis 831–836
Spectra of random ZnO lasers pumped by nanosecond pulses
V. M. Markushev, M. V. Ryzhkov, Ch. M. Briskina 837–842
Tunable Yb3+ laser based on an isotropic fibre with an anisotropic acoustooptic filter built into the resonator without accompanying polarisation losses with the help of a new polarisation beamsplitter
B. L. Davydov, A. A. Krylov 843–846
Ultrashort-pulse erbium-doped fibre laser using a saturable absorber based on single-wall carbon nanotubes synthesised by the arc-discharge method
A. V. Tausenev, E. D. Obraztsova, A. S. Lobach, V. I. Konov, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. G. Kryukov, E. M. Dianov 847–852
Laser cathode-ray tube with a monolithic laser screen
V. Yu. Bondarev, V. I. Kozlovsky, A. B. Krysa, Yu. M. Popov, D. E. Sviridov, Ya. K. Skasyrsky 853–856
A ZnSe/ZnMgSSe nanostructure for a laser electron-beam tube emitting in the blue spectral region
I. P. Kazakov, V. I. Kozlovsky, V. P. Martovitskii, Ya. K. Skasyrsky, Yu. M. Popov, P. I. Kuznetsov, G. G. Yakushcheva, A. O. Zabezhailov, E. M. Dianov 857–862
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Ion acceleration by ultrahigh-power ultrashort laser pulses
A. V. Brantov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. Rozmus 863–868
Intense charge exchange of laser-plasma ions with the atoms of a pulsed gas jet
V. M. Antonov, È. L. Boyarintsev, A. V. Melekhov, V. G. Posukh, A. G. Ponomarenko, I. F. Shaikhislamov 869–872
Fibres
Scalar theory of low-contrast Bragg waveguides
D. V. Prokopovich, A. V. Popov, A. V. Vinogradov 873–880
On the efficiency of optical joining of fibres in a photopolymerisable composition
S. N. Mensov, Yu. V. Polushtaitsev 881–884
Optical communication
Study of new modulation data-transmission formats for dispersion-controlled high-bit-rate fibreoptic communication lines
O. V. Shtyrina, M. P. Fedoruk, S. K. Turitsyn 885–890
Laser technologies
Laser cutting of thick steel sheets using supersonic oxygen jets
A. V. Zaitsev, O. B. Kovalev, A. G. Malikov, A. M. Orishich, V. B. Shulyat’ev 891–892
Cerenkov radiation
On emission of Cerenkov X-rays by electrons in carbon nanotubes
L. A. Rivlin 893–894