Letters
IR luminescence of tellurium-doped silica-based optical fibre
E. M. Dianov, S. V. Alyshev, A. V. Shubin, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur’yanov 189–191
Stimulated emission
Elementary processes of stimulated emission
P. V. Elyutin 192–198
Strong electromagnetic fields
Dynamics of ionisation and entanglement in the ‘atom + quantum electromagnetic field’ system
P. R. Sharapova, O. V. Tikhonova 199–207
Active media
Effect of structural imperfections on lasing characteristics of diode-pumped YVO4, GdVO4 and mixed rare-earth vanadate crystals
G. Yu. Orlova, V. I. Vlasov, Yu. D. Zavartsev, A. I. Zagumennyi, I. I. Kalashnikova, S. A. Kutovoi, V. S. Naumov, A. A. Sirotkin 208–210
Lasers
High-peak power, passively Q-switched, composite, all-polycrystalline ceramic Nd : YAG/Cr4+ : YAG lasers
O. Sandu, G. Salamu, N. Pavel, T. Dascalu, D. Chuchumishev, A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Buchvarov 211–215
Control of laser radiation parameters
Additive mode locking based on a nonlinear loop mirror ring laser
H. J. Kbashi 216–219
Coherent beam combining of 2-μm fibre lasers
P. Zhou, X. L. Wang, Y. X. Ma, K. Han, Z. J. Liu 220–223
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Phase matching of four-wave interactions of SRS components in birefringent SRS-active crystals
S. N. Smetanin, T. T. Basiev 224–227
Generation of tunable mid-IR radiation by second harmonic in a CdGeAs2 crystal
S. Das 228–230
Capillary compressor of femtosecond laser pulses with nonlinear rotation of polarisation ellipse
A. V. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, L. L. Losev, S. Yu. Tenyakov 231–234
Optical fibres and amplifiers
Bragg fibres with an intermediate layer
Yu. N. Kulchin, Yu. A. Zinin, I. G. Nagornyi 235–240
Wideband and flat-gain amplifier based on high concentration erbiumdoped fibres in parallel double-pass configuration
B. A. Hamida, X. S. Cheng, S. W. Harun, A. W. Naji, H. Arof, W. Al-Khateeb, S. Khan, H. Ahmad 241–243
Laser spectroscopy
On the possibility of designing a high-resolution heterodyne spectrometer for near-IR range on the basis of a tunable diode laser
A. Yu. Klimchuk, A. I. Nadezhdinskii, Ya. Ya. Ponurovskii, Yu. P. Shapovalov, A. V. Rodin 244–249
Absolute frequency measurement for the emission transitions of molecular iodine in the 982 — 985 nm range
Yu. A. Matyugin, S. M. Ignatovich, S. A. Kuznetsov, M. I. Nesterenko, M. V. Okhapkin, V. S. Pivtsov, M. N. Skvortsov, S. N. Bagayev 250–257
Nanostructures
Au-coated ZnO nanostructures for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy applications
A. Ognemirova-Dikovska, N. N. Nedyalkov, S. E. Imamova, G. B. Atanasova, P. A. Atanasov 258–261
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Femtosecond lasers for microsurgery of cornea
S. K. Vartapetov, D. V. Khudyakov, K. E. Lapshin, A. Z. Obidin, I. A. Shcherbakov 262–268
In-vitro study of the temperature dependence of the optoacoustic conversion efficiency in biological tissues
S. M. Nikitin, T. D. Khokhlova, I. M. Pelivanov 269–276
On distant neutron logging (laser methods)
L. A. Rivlin 277–279