Letters
Four-photon spectroscopy of rotational transitions in liquid: recording of changes in the chemical composition of water caused by cavitation
A. F. Bunkin, S. M. Pershin 189–191
Lasers
Electric-discharge high-peak-power CO2 laser
V. M. Orlovskii, A. N. Panchenko, V. F. Tarasenko 192–194
Calculation of gain and luminescence spectra of quantum-cascade laser structures taking into account asymmetric emission line broadening
D. V. Ushakov, V. K. Kononenko, I. S. Manak 195–198
Nonisochronism of the self-modulation oscillation frequency in a solid-state ring laser
T. V. Aulova, I. I. Zolotoverkh, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 199–202
Amplification and generation of radiation at the 42Γ → 1,22Γ transition of the Kr2F molecule in an electron-beam-pumped wide-aperture laser
A. O. Levchenko, V. D. Zvorykin, S. V. Likhomanova, N. N. Ustinovskii, V. F. Shtan’ko 203–209
Laser beams and resonators
On formation of a partially coherent beam in a stable-resonator laser
A. A. Suvorov 210–216
On open electromagnetic resonators: relation between interferometers and resonators
A. A. Manenkov, V. P. Bykov 217–218
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Effective cubic nonlinearity and cnoidal waves in the degenerate parametric frequency conversion
V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 219–222
Dependence of emergence of the collapse and revival effect of Doppler — Rabi osciallations on the initial state of the moving-atom — electromagnetic-field system
A. V. Kozlovskii 223–228
Dynamics of similariton pulses in length-inhomogeneous active fibres
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov, A. K. Senatorov, A. A. Sysolyatin, M. S. Yavtushenko 229–233
Plasma spectroscopy
Spectroscopic diagnostics of a pulsed discharge in high-pressure argon
A. B. Treshchalov, A. A. Lissovskii 234–240
Emission in argon and krypton at 147 nm excited by runaway-electron-induced diffusion discharge
G. N. Gerasimov, B. E. Krylov, M. I. Lomaev, D. V. Rybka, V. F. Tarasenko 241–245
Nanostructures
Optical properties of noble-metal nanoparticles coated with a dye J-aggregate monolayer
V. S. Lebedev, A. S. Medvedev, D. N. Vasil’ev, D. A. Chubich, A. G. Vitukhnovsky 246–253
Fibre optics
Guidance properties of few-mode large-mode-area microstructured fibres
P. M. Agruzov, K. V. Dukelskii, I. V. Il’ichev, A. S. Kozlov, A. V. Shamray, V. S. Shevandin 254–258
Smoothing of the spectrum of fibre Bragg gratings in the Lloyd-interferometer recording scheme
S. R. Abdullina, A. A. Vlasov, S. A. Babin 259–263
On the mechanism of photoinduced refractive index changes in phosphosilicate glass
Yu. V. Larionov, V. O. Sokolov, V. G. Plotnichenko 264–268
Laser receiver
Fast bolometer built in an artificial HPHT diamond matrix
A. Yu. Klokov, A. I. Sharkov, T. I. Galkina, R. A. Khmelnitskii, V. A. Dravin, A. A. Gippius 269–270
New functional capabilities of quartz for laser parameter measurements
V. F. Kosorotov, L. V. Shchedrina 271–275
Quantum electronic devices
Cryogenic Faraday isolator
D. S. Zheleznov, V. V. Zelenogorskii, E. V. Katin, I. B. Mukhin, O. V. Palashov, E. A. Khazanov 276–281