Letters
Explosive boiling of metals upon irradiation by a nanosecond laser pulse
V. I. Mazhukin, A. A. Samokhin, M. M. Demin, A. V. Shapranov 283–285
Lasers
Substrate-emitting semiconductor laser with a trapezoidal active region
N. V. Dikareva, S. M. Nekorkin, M. V. Karzanova, B. N. Zvonkov, V. Ya. Aleshkin, A. A. Dubinov, A. A. Afonenko 286–288
Equivalent circuit-level model and improvement of terahertz quantum cascade lasers
W. Zhou, Shaobin Liu, Jie Wu, Xiaoliu Zhang, Wu Tang 289–293
Generation of 25-ns pulses with a peak power of over 10 kW from a gain-switched, 2-mm Tm-doped fibre laser and amplifier system
J. Swiderski, M. Michalska, W. Pichola, M. Mamajek 294–297
Q-switched and mode-locked Er3+-doped fibre laser using a single-multi-single fibre filter and piezoelectric
Ji Wang, Yunjun Zhang, Aotuo Dong, Xiaoxin Xu, Youlun Ju, Baoquan Yao 298–300
Control of laser radiation parameters
A high-speed, high-efficiency phase controller for coherent beam combining based on SPGD algorithm
Zh. M. Huang, C. L. Liu, J. F. Li, D. Y. Zhang 301–305
Near-IR supercontinuum generation based on a telecom single-mode fibre in an all-fibre format, and its power combining
Rumao Tao, Xiaolin Wang, Hu Xiao, Pu Zhou, Jing Hou 306–308
Self-mixing detection of backscattered radiation in a single-mode erbium fibre laser for Doppler spectroscopy and velocity measurements
A. K. Dmitriev, A. N. Konovalov, V. A. Ul’yanov 309–313
Saturable absorber based on silver nanoparticles for passively mode-locked lasers
D. A. Glubokov, V. V. Sychev, A. S. Mikhailov, A. E. Korol’kov, D. A. Chubich, B. I. Shapiro, A. G. Vitukhnovsky 314–316
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Formation of micron and submicron structures on a zirconium oxide surface exposed to nanosecond laser radiation
D. V. Ganin, S. I. Mikolutskiy, V. N. Tokarev, V. Yu. Khomich, V. A. Shmakov, V. A. Yamshchikov 317–321
Effective time of thermal effect of ultrashort laser pulses on dielectrics
V. P. Veiko, E. A. Shakhno, E. B. Yakovlev 322–324
Possibility of applying a hydrodynamic model to describe the laser erosion of metals irradiated by high-intensity nanosecond pulses
K. V. Kozadaev 325–329
Specific features of formation of self-induced gratings on metal foils during scanning by a tightly focused femtosecond laser beam
A. V. Dostovalov, V. P. Korolkov, S. K. Golubtsov, V. I. Kondrat’ev 330–334
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Broadband picosecond radiation source based on noncollinear optical parametric amplifier
V. G. Arakcheev, A. K. Vereschagin, K. A. Vereshchagin, V. B. Morozov, V. G. Tunkin, D. V. Yakovlev 335–340
Interference of biphotons upon parametric down-conversion in the field of biharmonic pumping
I. I. Zolotoverkh 341–344
Cross modulation instability in normal-dispersion fibre lasers and amplifiers
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. A. Korobko, V. A. Lapin 345–352
Laser spectroscopy
Recording of absorption spectra by a three-beam integral technique with a tunable laser and external cavity
P. V. Korolenko, I. V. Nikolaev, V. N. Ochkin, S. N. Tskhai 353–361
Laser Gyroscopes
Semiconductor laser gyro with optical frequency dithering
L. P. Prokof’eva, V. K. Sakharov, V. V. Shcherbakov 362–363
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Method for studying the phase function in tunable diffraction optical elements
V. D. Paranin, K. N. Tukmakov 371–375
Criteria for admissible values of smooth aberrations for nondiffractive laser beams
Ya. I. Malashko, V. M. Khabibulin 376–382
Stand-off detection of HMX traces by active spectral imaging with a tunable CO2 laser
A. A. Pavlenko, E. V. Maksimenko, L. V. Chernyshova 383–386
Time delay of wave packets during their tunnelling through a quantum diode
N. A. Ivanov, V. V. Skalozub 387–391
Obituary
In memory of Vitalii Sergeevich Zuev
O. N. Krokhin, L. D. Mikheev, O. Yu. Nosach, E. P. Orlov, A. S. Semenov 392