Review
Collision lasers on atomic transitions
G. G. Petrash 111–124
Active media
Analytic study of the chain dark decomposition reaction of iodides — atomic iodine donors — in the active medium of a pulsed chemical oxygen—iodine laser: 1. Criteria for the development of the branching chain dark decomposition reaction of iodides
T. L. Andreeva, S. V. Kuznetsova, A. I. Maslov, V. N. Sorokin 125–134
Population and relaxation kinetics of the 5d[3/2]1 level upon pulsed electron-beam excitation of pure xenon
I. A. Denezhkin, P. P. D’yachenko 135–138
Lasers
Effect of reactor radiation on the operation of a neodymium inorganic liquid laser
A. F. Dobrovol’skii, D. V. Kabakov, A. A. Seregin, E. A. Seregina, G. V. Tikhonov 139–142
Classification analysis of CuBr laser parameters
I. P. Iliev, S. G. Gocheva-Ilieva, N. V. Sabotinov 143–146
High-pulse-repetition-rate UV lasers with the inductance-capacitance discharge stabilisation
A. V. Andramanov, S. A. Kabaev, B. V. Lazhintsev, V. A. Nor-Arevyan, A. V. Pisetskaya, V. D. Selemir 147–153
Control of laser radiation parameters
Device for enhancing the time contrast of utrashort laser pulses based on a polarisation Mach — Zehnder interferometer
A. V. Gitin 154–156
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Effect of electromagnetically induced transparency on the spectrum of defect modes in a one-dimensional photonic crystal
V. G. Arkhipkin, S. A. Myslivets 157–162
Influence of phase memory effects in collisions on a resonance Raman spectrum
A. I. Parkhomenko, A.M. Shalagin 163–170
Integral criterion for selecting nonlinear crystals for frequency conversion
S. G. Grechin 171–173
Resonators
Eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes of a ring optical resonator with thin dielectric plates
V. F. Soudakov 174–178
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Temporal structure of an electric signal produced upon interaction of radiation from a HF laser with the bottom surface of a water column
S. N. Andreev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, I. G. Kononov, P. P. Pashinin, K. N. Firsov 179–184
Physical mechanisms of CO2-laser-induced rapid structural changes in glass-ceramics
V. P. Veiko, E. B. Yakovlev, E. A. Shakhno 185–190
Laser technologies
Metal cutting by radiation from a CO2 laser with a self-filtering cavity
A. G. Malikov, A. M. Orishich, V. B. Shulyat’ev 191–196
Optical waveguides
Dispersion and energy parameters of the HE1m modes of two-layer optical fibres
A. S. Belanov, E. M. Dianov, A. A. Sysolyatin, K. Yu. Kharitonova, S. V. Tsvetkov 197–200
Human eye optics
Determination of positions of optical elements of the human eye
S. O. Galetskii, T. Yu. Cherezova 201–203