Letters
On the nature of near-IR emitting Bi centres in glass
E. M. Dianov 283–285
Effect of unmodulated laser light on the nanostructure of a thin solid AD-1 azo dye film
A. M. Dubrovkin, A. A. Ezhov, V. M. Kozenkov, S. A. Magnitskiy, N. M. Nagorskii, V. I. Panov 286–287
Invited paper
Investigation into the ways of tuning parametric oscillators of visible and IR ranges
S. A. Andreev, N. P. Andreeva, M. S. Barashkov, V. V. Badikov, V. K. Demkin, A. K. Don, V. M. Epikhin, M. I. Krymskii, Yu. K. Kalinnikov, K. V. Mitin, A. M. Seregin, V. V. Sinaiskii, M. A. Talalaev, A. A. Chistyakov, N. I. Shchebetova, T. A. Shchetinkina 288–295
Lasers
Study of a Tm:Ho:YLF laser pumped by a Raman shifted erbium-doped fibre laser at 1678 nm
Yu. L. Kalachev, V. A. Mikhaĭlov, V. V. Podreshetnikov, I. A. Shcherbakov 296–300
Improving the efficiency of high-power diode lasers using diamond heat sinks
V. V. Parashchuk, G. I. Ryabtsev, A. K. Belyaeva, T. V. Bez’yazychnaya, V. V. Baranov, E. V. Telesh, Vu Doan Mien, Vu Van Luc, Pham Van Truong 301–304
Highly efficient semiconductor optical amplifier for the 820—860-nm spectral range
A. A. Lobintsov, M. B. Uspenskiy, V. A. Shishkin, M. V. Shramenko, S. D. Yakubovich 305–309
Active media
Dissociation and regeneration kinetics of carbon dioxide in the active medium of sealed-off transverse RF-excited CO2 lasers
I. G. Vesnov 310–313
Measurement of parametrs of laser radiation
Extension of the possibilities of a commercial digital camera in detecting spatial intensity distribution of laser radiation
M. V. Konnik, E. A. Manykin, S. N. Starikov 314–320
Shack — Hartmann wavefront sensor for measuring the parameters of high-power pulsed solid-state lasers
A. G. Alexandrov, V. E. Zavalova, A. V. Kudryashov, A. L. Rukosuev, P. N. Romanov, V. V. Samarkin, Yu. V. Sheldakova 321–326
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Nonlinear dispersive similariton: spectral interferometric study
A. S. Zeytunyan, K. A. Palandjan, G. L. Esayan, L. Kh. Muradyan 327–328
Efficient cascade quasi-synchronous parametric generation with up-conversion
V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 329–334
Spectrum of a pulse compressed in SBS in CCl4 to nanosecond and subnanosecond durations
A. I. Erokhin, S. N. Datsenko, E. V. Loginov 335–340
Simulation of phase conjugation for laser radiation upon nonstationary SBS
V. A. Bogachev, N. V. Maslov, F. A. Starikov 341–345
Nanostructures
Generation of surface nanostructures on nickel by liquid-phase laser ablation and their surface-enhanced Raman scattering activity
E. V. Barmina, C. Lau Truong, F. Bozon-Verduraz, G. Levi, A. V. Simakin, G. A. Shafeev 346–348
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Excitation of nuclear isomers by X rays from laser plasma
A. A. Andreev, K. Yu. Platonov, Yu. V. Rozhdestvenskii, F. F. Karpeshin, M. B. Trzhaskovskaya 349–354
Simulation of generation of bremsstrahlung gamma quanta upon irradiation of thin metal films by ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses
S. N. Andreev, S. G. Garanin, A. A. Rukhadze, V. P. Tarakanov, B. P. Yakutov 355–362
Resonators. Modes
On the mechanism of transverse-mode beatings in a Fabry — Perot laser
N. Kumar, V. I. Ledenev 363–367
Optical information processing methods
Two-dimensional image edge enhancement in the two-phonon diffraction
V. M. Kotov, S. V. Averin, G. N. Shkerdin, A. I. Voronko 368–370
LASER METHODS IN MEDICINE
Light absorption in blood during low-intensity laser irradiation of skin
V. V. Barun, A. P. Ivanov 371–376