Lasers
THz laser based on quasi-periodic AlGaAs superlattices
K. V. Malyshev 503–508
High-power cw laser bars of the 750 – 790-nm wavelength range
N. S. Degtyareva, S. A. Kondakov, G. T. Mikayelyan, P. V. Gorlachuk, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, I. V. Yarotskaya 509–511
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Realisation of four-wave mixing phase matching for frequency components at intracavity stimulated Raman scattering in a calcite crystal
S. N. Smetanin, A. V. Fedin, A. S. Shurygin 512–518
Difference-frequency generation in the field of a few-cycle laser pulse propagating in a GaAs crystal with a domain structure
D. L. Oganesyan, A. O. Vardanyan, G. D. Oganesyan 519–525
Vector solitons with a uniform polarisation state induced by polarisation filtering in a fibre laser
Wei-Cheng Chen, Guo-Jie Chen, Ding-An Han, Jia-Ning Xie 526–530
Fiber optics
A technique for detecting and locating polarisation nonuniformities in an anisotropic optical fibre
V. V. Burdin, Yu. A. Konstantinov, V. P. Pervadchuk, A. S. Smirnov 531–534
Transmission spectra of a double-clad fibre structure under bending
I. V. Zlodeev, O. V. Ivanov 535–541
Optical information transmission
On the possibility of developing incoherent fibre-optic data transmission systems based on signal spectral coding with matched acousto-optical filters
V. V. Proklov, O. A. Byshevski-Konopko, V. I. Grigorievski 542–545
Modelling the transmission of a 40-Gbit s-1 NRZ-ADPSK signal in 50-GHz networks
N. V. Gurkin, Yu. A. Kapin, O. E. Nanii, A. G. Novikov, V. N. Pavlov, S. O. Plaksin, A. Yu. Plotskii, V. N. Treshchikov 546–549
Nonlinear interference noise in 100-Gbit s-1 communication lines with the DP-QPSK modulation format
N. V. Gurkin, O. E. Nanii, A. G. Novikov, S. O. Plaksin, V. N. Treshchikov, R. R. Ubaydullaev 550–553
Laser imaging
Laser refractive tomography of phase objects
I. L. Raskovskaya 554–562
Optical nanostructures
Influence of UV and visible laser light on the structure and composition of layered organic – inorganic zinc and copper nanocomposites
T. I. Borodina, G. E. Val’yano, O. A. Gololobova, V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov, D. A. Strikanov 563–566
Anomalous optical nonlinearity of dielectric nanodispersions
V. A. Milichko, V. P. Dzyuba, Yu. N. Kulchin 567–573
Propagation of wave fronts
Evolution of a wave packet scattered by a one-dimensional potential
A. Zh. Khachatrian, A. G. Alexanyan, V. A. Khoetsyan, N. A. Alexanyan 574–581
Numerical simulation of optical vortex propagation and reflection by the methods of scalar diffraction theory
N. V. Petrov, P. V. Pavlov, A. N. Malov 582–587
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Photonic crystal fibre-based light source for STED lithography
D. A. Glubokov, V. V. Sychev, A. G. Vitukhnovsky, A. E. Korol’kov 588–590
Application of copper vapour lasers for controlling activity of uranium isotopes
E. V. Barmina, I. A. Sukhov, N. M. Lepekhin, Yu. S. Priseko, V. G. Filippov, A. V. Simakin, G. A. Shafeev 591–596