Letters
Laser image recording on detonation nanodiamond films
G. M. Mikheev, K. G. Mikheev, T. N. Mogileva, A. P. Puzyr, V. S. Bondar 1–3
Control of laser radiation parameters
Q-switching of a thulium-doped fibre laser using a holmium-doped fibre saturable absorber
Ya. È. Sadovnikova, V. A. Kamynin, A. S. Kurkov, O. I. Medvedkov, A. V. Marakulin, L. A. Minashina 4–6
Control of the spectral parameters of vanadate lasers
A. A. Sirotkin, V. I. Vlasov, A. I. Zagumennyi, Yu. D. Zavartsev, S. A. Kutovoi, I. A. Shcherbakov 7–12
Narrow-band erbium-doped fibre linear–ring laser
A. A. Kolegov, G. S. Sofienko, L. A. Minashina, A. V. Bochkov 13–16
Synchronisation in the phase model of three coupled lasers
A. P. Kuznetsov, I. R. Sataev, L. V. Turukina, N. Yu. Chernyshov 17–22
Synchronisation of self-oscillations in a solid-state ring laser with pump modulation in the region of parametric resonance between self-modulation and relaxation oscillations
V. Yu. Dudetskii, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 23–29
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Frequency conversion in compositionally graded PPLN crystals
V. V. Galutskiy, E. V. Stroganova, S. A. Shmargilov, N. A. Yakovenko 30–33
Fourier space method for calculating the propagation of laser radiation in biaxial crystals taking into account the angle between the eigenpolarisations
S. G. Grechin, P. P. Nikolaev, A. G. Okhrimchuk 34–41
Modulation instability and short-pulse generation in media with relaxing Kerr nonlinearity and high self-steepening
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. A. Korobko, V. A. Lapin 42–47
Radiation scattering
Subdiffraction field localisation in the scattering of femtosecond laser radiation by a dielectric microsphere
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, E. K. Panina 48–53
Doppler mapping of an alternating-sign flow with complex geometry using optical coherence tomography
S. G. Proskurin, A. Yu. Potlov, S. V. Frolov 54–58
Low-coherence interferometry as a method for assessing the transport parameters in randomly inhomogeneous media
D. A. Zimnyakov, J. S. Sina, S. A. Yuvchenko, E. A. Isaeva, S. P. Chekmasov, O. V. Ushakova 59–64
Biophotonics
Optical properties of costal cartilage and their variation in the process of non-destructive action of laser radiation with the wavelength 1.56 μm
A. V. Yuzhakov, A. P. Sviridov, E. M. Shcherbakov, O. I. Baum, È. N. Sobol’ 65–68
Analytical model of diffuse reflectance spectrum of skin tissue
S. A. Lisenko, M. M. Kugeiko, V. A. Firago, A. N. Sobchuk 69–75
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Scanning cross-correlator for monitoring uniform 3D ellipsoidal laser beams
V. V. Zelenogorskii, A. V. Andrianov, E. I. Gacheva, G. V. Gelikonov, M. Krasilnikov, M. A. Mart’yanov, S. Yu. Mironov, A. K. Potemkin, E. M. Syresin, F. Stephan, E. A. Khazanov 76–82
Influence of an optical pulsed discharge on the structure of a super
sonic air flow
A. N. Malov, A. M. Orishich 83–88
Discharge formation systems for generating atomic iodine in a pulse-periodic oxygen–iodine laser
V. I. Aksinin, S. A. Antsiferov, S. D. Velikanov, A. Yu. Gerasimov, I. V. Gostev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, V. V. Kalinovskii, V. V. Konovalov, I. G. Kononov, V. N. Mikhalkin, S. V. Podlesnykh, I. V. Sevryugin, K. N. Firsov 89–93
Personalia
Fedor Vasil’evich Bunkin (on his 85th birthday)
O. N. Krokhin 94