Letters
Neodymium glass laser with a pulse energy of 220 J and a pulse repetition rate of 0.02 Hz
A. A. Kuzmin, O. V. Kulagin, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 597–599
Lasers
Two-frequency picosecond laser based on composite vanadate crystals with σ-polarised radiation
A. A. Sirotkin, S. P. Sadovskii, S. V. Garnov 600–602
Holmium fibre laser emitting at 2.21 μm
S. O. Antipov, V. A. Kamynin, O. I. Medvedkov, A. V. Marakulin, L. A. Minashina, A. S. Kurkov, A. V. Baranikov 603–604
Lasing in the UV, IR and visible spectral ranges in a runaway-electron-preionised diffuse dischrage
P. O. Vil’tovskii, M. I. Lomaev, A. N. Panchenko, N. A. Panchenko, D. V. Rybka, V. F. Tarasenko 605–609
Active media
Dynamics of production of iodine atoms by dissociation of iodides in a pulsed self-sustained discharge
N. P. Vagin, I. V. Kochetov, A. P. Napartovich, N. N. Yuryshev 610–615
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Four-wave-mixing generation of SRS components in BaWO4 and SrWO4 crystals under picosecond excitation
T. T. Basiev, M. E. Doroshenko, L. I. Ivleva, S. N. Smetanin, M. Jelínek, V. Kubeček, H. Jelínková 616–620
Specific features of propagation of femtosecond laser pulses through a molecular gaseous medium under conditions of efficient alignment of molecules
A. V. Gulyaev, O. V. Tikhonova 621–629
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Numerical analysis of experiments on the generation of shock waves in aluminium under indirect (X-ray) action on the Iskra-5 facility
S. V. Bondarenko, G. V. Dolgoleva, E. A. Novikova 630–637
Laser spectroscopy
Role of transient processes in resonance line spectroscopy of caesium atoms in cells with antirelaxation coating
D. I. Sevost’yanov, V. P. Yakovlev, A. N. Kozlov, V. V. Vasil’ev, S. A. Zibrov, V. L. Velichansky 638–645
Optical information processing
New method of contour image processing based on the formalism of spiral light beams
V. G. Volostnikov, S. A. Kishkin, S. P. Kotova 646–650
Information coding of exciting laser pulses in an optical echo-processor
I. A. Rusanova 651–655
Fiber optics
Spectral behaviour of bismuth centres in different steps of the FCVD process
A. S. Zlenko, V. M. Mashinsky, L. D. Iskhakova, R. P. Ermakov, S. L. Semenov, V. V. Koltashev 656–665
X-ray optics
Normal-incidence Sb/B4C multilayer mirrors for the 80 Å < λ < 120 Å wavelength range
E. A. Vishnyakov, D. L. Voronov, E. M. Gullikson, V. V. Kondratenko, I. A. Kopylets, M. S. Luginin, A. S. Pirozhkov, E. N. Ragozin, A. N. Shatokhin 666–673
Laser applications in biology and medicine
Simulation of a broadband nano-biosensor based on an onion-like quantum dot–quantum well structure
H. Absalan, A. SalmanOgli, R. Rostami 674–678
Visualisation of blood and lymphatic vessels with increasing exposure time of the detector
V. V. Kalchenko, Yu. L. Kuznetsov, I. V. Meglinski 679–682
Online determination of biophysical parameters of mucous membranes of a human body
S. A. Lisenko, M. M. Kugeiko 683–689
Personalia
On the 80th anniversary of V. S. Zuev
O. N. Krokhin, L. D. Mikheev, O. Yu. Nosach, E. P. Orlov 690