Letters
Bismuth-doped germanosilicate fibre laser with 20-W output power at 1460 nm
S. V. Firstov, A. V. Shubin, V. F. Khopin, M. A. Mel’kumov, I. A. Bufetov, O. I. Medvedkov, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 581–583
Lasers
Vanadate lasers with σ-polarised radiation
A. A. Sirotkin, V. I. Vlasov, A. I. Zagumennyi, Yu. D. Zavartsev, S. A. Kutovoi 584–589
Multi-disk: concept and realisation of a collinearly pumped multiple thin disk active medium
A. Aleknavičius, R. Smilingis, M. Grishin, A. Michailovas, K. Michailovas, J. Pilipavičius, V. Girdauskas, M. Gabalis 590–594
Variations in the output characteristics of broadband superluminescent diodes during long-term operation
E. V. Andreeva, S. N. Il’chenko, Yu. O. Kostin, P. I. Lapin, D. S. Mamedov, S. D. Yakubovich 595–601
An ultra-wideband tunable multi-wavelength Brillouin fibre laser based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and dispersion compensating fibre in a linear cavity configuration
M. Z. Zulkifli, H. Ahmad, N. A. Hassan, M. H. Jemangin, S. W. Harun 602–605
Control of laser radiation parameters
Efficient compression of the femtosecond pulses of an ytterbium laser in a gas-filled capillary
A. V. Konyashchenko, L. L. Losev, S. Yu. Tenyakov 606–609
Effect of complex recovery of saturable absorption on the performance of mode-locked lasers
O. G. Okhotnikov, R. Herda 610–613
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Effect of laser irradiation of nanoparticles in aqueous uranium salt solutions on nuclide activity
A. V. Simakin, G. A. Shafeev 614–618
Change in the surface morphology and chemical composition of some oxide crystals under UV laser irradiation
A. S. Kuzanyan, G. R. Badalyan, V. S. Kuzanyan, V. R. Nikogosyan, S. Kh. Pilosyan, V. M. Nesterov 619–625
Propagation of Nd-laser pulses through crystalline silicon wafers
N. A. Kirichenko, P. G. Kuzmin, M. E. Shcherbina 626–630
Study of the spatial resolution of laser thermochemical technology for recording diffraction microstructures
V. P. Veiko, V. I. Korol’kov, A. G. Poleshchuk, A. R. Sametov, E. A. Shakhno, M. V. Yarchuk 631–636
Fiber and integrated optics
Steady-state heating of active fibres under optical pumping
V. V. Gainov, R. I. Shaidullin, O. A. Ryabushkin 637–643
Theoretical, experimental and numerical methods for investigating the characteristics of laser radiation scattered in the integrated-optical waveguide with three-dimensional irregularities
A. A. Egorov 644–649
Laser spectroscopy
Measurement of the absorption line profiles of water vapour isotopomers at 1.39 μm using the methods of diode laser spectroscopy
A. S. Kuz’michev, A. I. Nadezhdinskii, Ya. Ya. Ponurovskii 650–655
Measurement of the emission linewidth of a single-frequency semiconductor laser with a ring fibre interferometer
A. I. Trikshev, A. S. Kurkov, V. B. Tsvetkov, Yu. N. Pyrkov, V. N. Paramonov 656–658
Laser applications
On the laser method of production of ultracold neutrons
L. A. Rivlin 659–662
Combined elemental and microstructural analysis of genuine and fake copper-alloy coins
L. Bartoli, J. Agresti, M. Mascalchi, A. Mencaglia, I. Cacciari, S. Siano 663–668
About possibilities of clearing near-Earth space from dangerous debris by a spaceborne laser system with an autonomous cw chemical HF laser
A. V. Avdeev, A. S. Bashkin, B. I. Katorgin, M. V. Parfen’ev 669–674