Review
Filamentation of high-power femtosecond laser radiation
V. P. Kandidov, S. A. Shlenov, O. G. Kosareva 205–228
Lasers
A cryogenic slab CO laser
A. A. Ionin, A. Yu. Kozlov, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn 229–234
Calculation, optimisation, and measurements of optical resonator parameters of the Novosibirsk terahertz free-electron laser
V. V. Kubarev 235–240
Laser diodes emitting up to 25 W at 808 nm
V. V. Bezotosnyi, V. Yu. Bondarev, O. N. Krokhin, G. T. Mikayelyan, V. A. Oleshchenko, V. F. Pevtsov, Yu. M. Popov, E. A. Cheshev 241–243
Ti : sapphire laser pumped by the second harmonic of a pulsed diode-pumped Nd : YAG laser for two-photon spectroscopy
V. I. Donin, D. V. Yakovin, A. V. Gribanov 244–246
Control of laser radiation parameters
Stimulated-emission wavelength switching in optically pumped InGaAs/AlGaInAs laser heterostructures
A. A. Andronov, Yu. N. Nozdrin, A. V. Okomel’kov, A. N. Yablonskii, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan 247–250
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Dynamics of superradiant media in a resonator
A. M. Basharov, G. G. Grigoryan, N. V. Znamenskiy, Yu. V. Orlov, A. Yu. Shashkov, T. G. Yukina 251–255
Solitons
Nonlinear dynamics of optical pulses in fibres with a travelling refractive-index-change wave
M. S. Adamova, I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 256–260
Resonators
Analytical description of a Gaussian beam in a ring resonator with a nonplanar axial contour and an even number of mirrors
A. B. Plachenov, V. N. Kudashov, A. M. Radin 261–272
LASER BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Application of laser fluorimetry for determining the influence of a single amino-acid substitution on the individual photophysical parameters of a fluorescent form of a fluorescent protein mRFP1
A. A. Banishev, E. P. Vrzheshch, E. A. Shirshin 273–278
Effect of repetitive laser pulses on the electrical conductivity of intervertebral disc tissue
A. I. Omel’chenko, È. N. Sobol’ 279–282
Optical fibres
Large-mode-area single-mode microstructured optical fibre for the mid-IR region
L. N. Butvinа, O. V. Sereda, A. L. Butvina, E. M. Dianov, N. V. Lichkova, V. N. Zagorodnev 283–286
Spun optical fibres: A helical structure of linear birefringence or circular birefringence?
S. K. Morshnev, V. P. Gubin, I. L. Vorob’ev, N. I. Starostin, A. I. Sazonov, Yu. K. Chamorovsky, N. M. Korotkov 287–292
Integrated optics
Properties of an ultrafast all-optical switching window in an integrated silicon-based Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Jianwei Wu, Fengguang Luo, Zhihua Yu, Qing Tao 293–297
Personalia
Valentin Pavlovich Gapontsev
O. N. Krokhin 298