Letters
Bismuth-doped fibre amplifier for the range 1300 — 1340 nm
E. M. Dianov, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. V. Shubin, S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur’yanov, I. A. Bufetov 1099–1101
Lasers
High-repetition-rate plate-electrode CO2 laser
A. V. Andramanov, D. D. Voevodin, A. V. Vysotskii, S. A. Kabaev, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, A. V. Pisetskaya, V. D. Selemir 1102–1106
lasing in nitrogen pumped by a runaway-electron-preionised diffuse discharge
E. Kh. Baksht, A. G. Burachenko, V. F. Tarasenko 1107–1111
Laser plasma
Resonant optical characteristics of an ultracold laser plasma
N. I. Kosarev, N. Ya. Shaparev 1112–1116
Active media
New high-strength neodymium phosphate laser glass
B. I. Galagan, I. N. Glushchenko, B. I. Denker, Yu. L. Kalachev, N. V. Kuleshov, V. A. Mikhaĭlov, S. E. Sverchkov, I. A. Shcherbakov 1117–1120
Co2+:GGG nonlinear optical crystal for the 1.3 — 1.7-μm spectral range
V. B. Kravchenko, P. I. Sadovskii, A. T. Sobolev, L. Yu. Zakharov, S. P. Sadovskii 1121–1124
Pump and amplification dynamics of gamma rays in a nuclear medium with the hidden population inversion
L. A. Rivlin 1125–1130
Electronic and thermal lensing in diode end-pumped Yb:YAG laser rods and discs
O. L. Antipov, E. A. Anashkina, K. A. Fedorova 1131–1136
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Effective cubic nonlinearity, photoinduced anisotropy, and elliptically polarised cnoidal waves upon frequency doubling
V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 1137–1142
Collision-induced amplification of radiation in inversionless two-level systems
A. I. Parkhomenko, A.M. Shalagin 1143–1147
Loop SBS oscillator on a stationary nonlinear refractive index grating
I. M. Bel’dyugin, A. A. Gordeev, V. F. Efimkov, I. G. Zubarev, S. I. Mikhailov, V. B. Sobolev 1148–1152
Resonators
Restrictions in the realisation of multipass unstable resonators
S. Yu. Strakhov 1153–1158
Two-dimensional distributed feedback lasers with excitation of TE waves in the active medium
V. R. Baryshev, N. S. Ginzburg, A. M. Malkin, A. S. Sergeev 1159–1164
Photodetectors
Microcavity array IR photodetector
A. K. Esman, V. K. Kuleshov, G. L. Zykov 1165–1168
Waveguides
Optical properties of wide single-mode strip and grating loaded channel waveguides
A. V. Tsarev 1169–1174
Optics of nanostructures
Controlling interface reflectance by a monolayer of nanoparticles
A. S. Shalin, S. G. Moiseev 1175–1181