Review
Excited states in the active media of oxygen — iodine lasers
V. N. Azyazov 989–1007
Invited paper
Noise-immune laser receiver — transmitters with the quantum sensitivity limit
Yu. F. Kutaev, S. K. Mankevich, O. Yu. Nosach, E. P. Orlov 1008–1017
Lasers
Diode-pumped passively ]Q-switched high-repetition-rate Yb microchip laser
V. È. Kisel’, A. S. Yasukevich, N. V. Kondratyuk, N. V. Kuleshov 1018–1022
Development of a chemical oxygen — iodine laser with production of atomic iodine in a chemical reaction
M. Čenský, O. Špalek, V. Jirásek, J. Kodymová, I. Jakubec 1023–1027
Simulation of a longitudinally electron-beam-pumped nanoheterostructure semiconductor laser
D. V. Vysotskii, N. N. Ëlkin, A. P. Napartovich, V. I. Kozlovsky, B. M. Lavrushin 1028–1032
Active media
Thermal regimes and limiting pump intensities of a disk laser with the one-dimensional temperature distribution inside the disk
A. N. Alpat’ev, V. A. Smirnov, I. A. Shcherbakov 1033–1040
Control of laser radiation parameters
Possibility of protecting a mirror of a laseron the 4d — 4p transitions of nickel-like tantalum ionsagainst spontaneous X-rays by means of a filter
M. L. Shmatov 1041–1044
Non-isochronism of the radiation frequency of a solid-state laser with a homogeneously broadened gain line
N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev 1045–1046
Beam structure of a diode-side-pumped Nd:YVO4 slab laser
A. A. Novikov, A. P. Zinov’ev, O. L. Antipov 1047–1049
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Controllable discrete diffraction in cascade-induced waveguides
O. V. Borovkova, V. E. Lobanov, A. P. Sukhorukov, A. K. Sukhorukova 1050–1053
IR multiphoton excitation of SF6 molecules subliming from the surface of (CO2)N nanoparticles in a cluster beam
G. N. Makarov, A. N. Petin 1054–1058
Optical image processing
Temporal analysis of the coherent properties of optical images of rough nonplanar objects
V. I. Mandrosov 1059–1067
Optical fibres and fibreoptic sensors
Polarisation reflectometry of anisotropic optical fibres
Yu. A. Konstantinov, I. I. Kryukov, V. P. Pervadchuk, A. Yu. Toroshin 1068–1070
Bismuth-ring-doped fibres
A. S. Zlenko, U. G. Akhmetshin, V. V. Dvoyrin, V. A. Bogatyrev, S. V. Firstov 1071–1073
Spun microstructured optical fibresfor Faraday effect current sensors
Yu. K. Chamorovsky, N. I. Starostin, S. K. Morshnev, V. P. Gubin, M. V. Ryabko, A. I. Sazonov, I. L. Vorob’ev 1074–1077
Fibreoptic distributed temperature sensor with spectral filtration by directional fibre couplers
A. G. Kuznetsov, S. A. Babin, I. S. Shelemba 1078–1081
Fibreoptic communication lines
Error statistics in a high-speed fibreoptic communication line with a phase shift of odd bits
E. G. Shapiro 1082–1085
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
High-Q polariton modes in heterostructures with traps for dipolar excitons
P. A. Kalinin, V. V. Kocharovsky, Vl. V. Kocharovskii 1086–1094
Electron beam deflection, focusing, and collimation by a femtosecond laser lens
V. G. Minogin 1095–1098