Letters
Generation of optical pulses of duration down to 8 fs upon filamentation of collimated femtosecond laser radiation in argon
M. V. Kurilova, D. S. Uryupina, A. V. Mazhorova, R. V. Volkov, S. R. Gorgutsa, N. A. Panov, O. G. Kosareva, A. B. Savel’ev 879–881
Control of laser radiation parameters
Picosecond pulse generation in a passively mode-locked Bi-doped fibre laser
A. A. Krylov, P. G. Kryukov, E. M. Dianov, O. G. Okhotnikov 882–886
Pulse synchronisation in passively Q-switched lasers emitting at 1.053 and 1.064 μm
V. Kh. Bagdasarov, N. N. Denisov, A. A. Malyutin, I. A. Chigaev 887–890
Active media
New ytterbium-phosphate glass for diode-pumped lasers
B. I. Galagan, I. N. Glushchenko, B. I. Denker, V. È. Kisel’, S. V. Kuril’chik, N. V. Kuleshov, S. E. Sverchkov 891–894
Thermally induced distortions in neodymium glass rod amplifiers
A. A. Kuzmin, A. G. Luchinin, A. K. Potemkin, A. A. Soloviev, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 895–900
Lasers
Study of the UV emission of an inductive nitrogen laser
A. M. Razhev, D. S. Churkin, A. A. Zhupikov 901–905
Low frequency noise distributed-feedback ytterbium fibre laser
M. A. Nikulin, S. A. Babin, A. K. Dmitriev, A. S. Dychkov, S. I. Kablukov, A. A. Lugovoy, Yu. Ya. Pecherskii 906–910
Gas-discharge laser on a self-terminating thallium transition
P. A. Bokhan, D. È. Zakrevskii, M. A. Lavrukhin 911–916
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Adiabatons in the nonstationary double resonance on degenerate quantum transitions
A. V. Volkov, N. A. Druzhinina, O. M. Parshkov 917–922
Experimental observation of the small-scale self-focusing of a beam in the nondestructive regime
M. S. Kochetkova, M. A. Mart’yanov, A. K. Potemkin, E. A. Khazanov 923–927
Многофотонный оптический пробой в воде в поле пикосекундных лазерных импульсов
V. A. Babenko, N. F. Bunkin, N. V. Suyazov, A. A. Sychev 928–932
Transient light absorption induced in glassby femtosecond laser pulses
I. V. Blonskii, V. N. Kadan, O. I. Shpotyuk, I. A. Pavlov, N. N. Kryuchkov 933–937
Four-photon parametric light scattering of ultrashort laser pulses in water in case of weak self-phase modulation
V. A. Babenko, A. A. Sychev 938–942
Nanostructures
Optical absorption in CaF2 nanoceramics
O. V. Palashov, E. A. Khazanov, I. B. Mukhin, A. N. Smirnov, I. A. Mironov, K. V. Dukelskii, E. A. Garibin, P. P. Fedorov, S. V. Kuznetsov, V. V. Osiko, T. T. Basiev, R. V. Gainutdinov 943–947
Nanooptics of gradient dielectric films
A. B. Shvartsburg, M. B. Agranat, O. V. Chefonov 948–952
Resonators
Eigenfrequencies of a composite ring resonator
V. F. Soudakov 953–958
Calculation of the optimal polarisation anisotropy of interference mirrors of a ring laser resonator
O. D. Volpyan, V. N. Kuryatov, A. L. Sokolov 959–961
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Laser Doppler visualisation of the velocity field by excluding the influence of multiparticle scattering
Yu. N. Dubnishchev, Yu. V. Chugui, J. Kompenhans 962–966
Laser-induced extreme UV radiation sources for manufacturing next-generation integrated circuits
V. M. Borisov, A. Yu. Vinokhodov, A. S. Ivanov, Yu. B. Kiryukhin, V. A. Mishchenko, A. V. Prokof’ev, O. B. Khristoforov 967–972
Asymmetrisation of the profile of a thin dynamic holographic grating in a TV-locked optical feedback loop
V. Yu. Venediktov, N. L. Ivanova, V. A. Laskin, N. N. Freigang 973–976
Optimal two-mirror system for laser radiation focusing
A. V. Gitin 977–980
Application of the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm for numerical simulation and analysis of the coherent summation of radiation from fibre amplifiers
Pu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Xiao Li, Zilun Chen, Xiaojun Xu, Zejin Liu 981–984
Channeling of microwave radiation in a double line containing a plasma filament produced by intense femtosecond laser pulses in air
N. A. Bogatov, A. I. Kuznetsov, A. I. Smirnov, A. N. Stepanov 985–988