Special issue devoted to the 90th anniversary of N.G.Basov
Nikolai Gennadievich Basov (14.12.1922 – 1.07.2001)
A word about Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
O. N. Krokhin 1052–1053
N. G. Basov – one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century
A. Z. Grasyuk 1054–1063
High-power SRS lasers – coherent summators (the way it was)
A. Z. Grasyuk, I. G. Zubarev, V. F. Efimkov, V. G. Smirnov 1064–1072
N. G. Basov and early works on semiconductor lasers at P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute
P. G. Eliseev 1073–1080
Comparison of the coherence properties of superradiance and laser emission in semiconductor structures
P. P. Vasil’ev, R. V. Penty, I. H. White 1081–1086
Properties of dark solitons under SBS in focused beams
I. M. Bel’dyugin, A. I. Erokhin, V. F. Efimkov, I. G. Zubarev, S. I. Mikhailov 1087–1092
Method of parallel switching of optical channels
I. N. Kompanets, T. A. Neevina, S. I. Kompanets 1093–1096
Spectral broadening and self-compression of negatively chirped visible femtosecond pulses in fused silica
A. I. Aristov, Ya. V. Grudtsyn, L. D. Mikheev, A. V. Polivin, S. G. Stepanov, V. A. Trofimov, V. I. Yalovoi 1097–1099
Lasers
Subpicosecond 41.8-nm X-ray laser in the plasma produced by femtosecond laser irradiation of a xenon cluster jet
E. P. Ivanova 1100–1105
Tunable repetitively pulsed Cr2+ : ZnSe laser
A. S. Egorov, O. N. Eremeykin, K. Yu. Pavlenko, A. P. Savikin, V. V. Sharkov 1106–1110
Similarity criteria in calculations of the energy characteristics of a cw oxygen – iodine laser
A. V. Mezhenin, V. N. Azyazov 1111–1117
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Chirped elliptically polarised cnoidal waves and polarisation “chaos” in an isotropic medium with spatial dispersion of cubic nonlinearity
V. A. Makarov, V. M. Petnikova, N. N. Potravkin, V. V. Shuvalov 1118–1122
Nanosystems
Far- and near-field optical properties of gold nanoparticle ensembles
N. N. Nedyalkov, A. Ognemirova-Dikovska, I. Dimitrov, R. Nikov, P. A. Atanasov, R. A. Toshkova, Е. G. Gardeva, L. S. Yossifova, M. T. Alexandrov 1123–1127
Laser technologies
Fabrication of alkali halide UV photocathodes by pulsed laser deposition
V. M. Brendel, V. V. Bukin, S. V. Garnov, V. Kh. Bagdasarov, N. N. Denisov, S. G. Garanin, V. A. Terekhin, Yu. A. Trutnev 1128–1132
Light polarisation
On the possibility of an experiment on “nonlocality” of electrodynamics
R. I. Khrapko 1133–1136
Experimental techniques
Narrow-band radiation wavelength measurement by processing digital photographs in RAW format
A. V. Kraĭskiĭ, T. V. Mironova, T. T. Sultanov 1137–1139
Supersensitive SQUID/magnetostrictor detecting system
A. I. Golovashkin, L. N. Zherikhina, A. M. Tskhovrebov, G. N. Izmailov 1140–1146