Lasers
Efficient wide-aperture neodymium glass rod amplifiers
A. K. Potemkin, K. A. Zhurin, A. V. Kirsanov, E. A. Kopelovich, M. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Kuzmin, F. A. Flat, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 487–491
Holmium fibre laser with record quantum efficiency
A. S. Kurkov, E. M. Sholokhov, V. B. Tsvetkov, A. V. Marakulin, L. A. Minashina, O. I. Medvedkov, A. F. Kosolapov 492–494
Active media
Mössbauer medium with a hidden nuclear population inversion and negative absorption of gamma quanta
L. A. Rivlin 495–500
Control of laser radiation parameters
Temporal shaping of ultrashort laser pulses by volume Bragg gratings
N. S. Vorob’ev, A. A. Manenkov, A. A. Murav’ev, A. V. Smirnov, E. V. Shashkov 501–503
Quasi-periodic synchronisation of self-modulation oscillations in a ring chip laser by an external periodic signal
T. V. Aulova, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 504–507
Operation conditions for a picosecond laser with an aberration thermal lens under longitudinal pulsed diode pumping
V. B. Morozov, A. N. Olenin, V. G. Tunkin, D. V. Yakovlev 508–514
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Generation of Kα radiation by high-efficiency laser targets
A. A. Andreev, K. Yu. Platonov 515–519
Photonic nanojet effect in multilayer micrometre-sized spherical particles
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, E. K. Panina 520–525
Nanophotonics
Chiral particles in a circularly polarised light field: new effects and applications
D. V. Guzatov, V. V. Климов 526–533
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Spatial profile reconstruction of individual componentsof the nonlinear susceptibility tensors ^χ(3)(z,ω′,ω′,−ω,ω) and ^χ(3)(z,2ω±ω′,±ω′,ω,ω) of a one-dimensionally inhomogeneous medium
A. A. Golubkov, V. A. Makarov 534–540
Fibreoptic communication lines
Statistics of errors in fibre communication lines with a phase-modulation format and optical phase conjugation
E. G. Shapiro, M. P. Fedoruk 541–544
Solitons
Symbolic computation of solitons in the normal dispersion regime of inhomogeneous optical fibres
Wen-Jun Liu, Bo Tian, Min Li, Yan Jiang, Qi-Xing Qu, Pan Wang, Kun Sun 545–551
Integral optical waveguides
Effects of surface roughness and absorption on light propagation in graded-profile waveguides
S. S. Danilenko, A. N. Osovitskii 552–556
Biophotonics
Visualisation of structural inhomogeneities in strongly scattering media using the method of spatially-resolved reflectometry: Monte Carlo simulation
A. V. Bykov, A. V. Priezzhev, R. A. Myllylä 557–563
Investigation of organic systems by ion-photon spectroscopy
I. A. Afanas’eva, V. V. Bobkov, V. V. Gritsyna, D. I. Shevchenko 564–567
Image processing
Self-imaging of transparent objects and structures in focusing of spatially phase-modulated laser radiation into a weakly absorbing medium
E. L. Bubis 568–570
Resonators
Nonorthogonal polarisation eigenstates in anisotropic cavities
Yu. A. Mamaev, P. A. Khandokhin 571–576
Registration of fast processes
Scientific instrument engineering at Japanese congresses devoted to high-speed imaging
M. Ya. Shchelev 577–580