Lasers
Low-threshold short-cavity diode laser for a miniature atomic clock
S. V. Kargapol’tsev, V. L. Velichansky, V. V. Vasil’ev, M. Sh. Kobyakova, A. V. Morozyuk, N. V. Shiryaeva, V. P. Konyaev 487–493
Successive composition of two laser channels upon excitation of He–Ar–Xe (2.03 μm) and Ar–Xe (1.73 μm) mixtures by uranium fission fragments
A. A. Pikulev, V. M. Tsvetkov, P. V. Sosnin, A. A. Sinyanskii 494–500
Electrical properties of InAs/InGaAs quantum-dot laser heterostructures: A threshold effect
P. G. Eliseev, A. Ukhanov, A. Shtints, K. J. Malloy 501–504
Control of laser radiation parameters
Generation of polarisation-nonuniform modes in a high-power CO2 laser
V. G. Niziev, V. P. Yakunin, N. G. Turkin 505–514
Stochastic effects during the action of the pump noise on bistable self-modulation oscillations in a solid-state ring laser
I. I. Zolotoverkh, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 515–520
Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm: experimental realisation and modification for the problem of formation of multimode laser beams
I. V. Il’ina, T. Yu. Cherezova, A. V. Kudryashov 521–527
On the possible nature of high-frequency modulation of a CO laser pulse
T. È. Ventslavovich, V. S. Kazakevich, A. A. Krents, S. V. Krestin, N. E. Molevich 528–530
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Smoothing of ablation pressure nonuniformities in the laser-plasma corona during heating of laser fusion targets
M. A. Zhurovich, O. A. Zhitkova, I. G. Lebo, Yu. A. Mikhailov, G. V. Sklizkov, A. N. Starodub, V. F. Tishkin 531–536
Properties of the interaction of laser radiation with a gaseous dust medium
A. F. Glova, A. Yu. Lysikov, M. M. Zverev 537–540
Laser ablation plume dynamics in nanoparticle synthesis
V. V. Osipov, V. V. Platonov, V. V. Lisenkov 541–546
Experimental optimisation of the gas-assisted laser cutting of thick steel sheets
A. G. Malikov, A. M. Orishich, V. B. Shulyat’ev 547–551
Femtosecond filaments
Filamentation of femtosecond radiation from a Cr:forsterite laser in air
M. B. Agranat, V. P. Kandidov, P. S. Komarov, A. V. Ovchinnikov, V. Yu. Fedorov 552–559
Femtosecond filaments as a new type of laser guide stars for astronomical adaptive optics
N. A. Panov, A. D. Savvin, O. G. Kosareva, A. B. Savel’ev-Trofimov, V. P. Kandidov, S. A. Potanin, S. D. Pol’skikh 560–565
Waveguides. Optical fibres
Structure of modes of a smoothly irregular integrated-optical four-layer three-dimensional waveguide
A. A. Egorov, L. A. Sevastyanov 566–574
Transmission of evanescent modes through a subwavelength aperture of a cylindrical waveguide. 2. The influence of dielectric properties of a real metal
T. I. Kuznetsova, V. S. Lebedev 575–582
Bismuth-doped telecommunication fibres for lasers and amplifiers in the 1400 — 1500-nm region
V. V. Dvoyrin, V. M. Mashinsky, O. I. Medvedkov, A. A. Umnikov, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 583–584
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Selective reflection of obliquely incident polarised light
Ya. A. Fofanov 585–590
On the hypothetical giant narrowing of radiative atomic and nuclear lines in a Bose — Einstein condensate
L. A. Rivlin 591–595
Personalia
To the 80th birthday of Yu. M. Popov
O. N. Krokhin 596