Letters
Bismuth-doped fibre amplifier operating between 1600 and 1800 nm
S. V. Firstov, S. V. Alyshev, K. E. Riumkin, V. F. Khopin, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. N. Gurjanov, E. M. Dianov 1083–1085
Study of a wide-aperture combined deformable mirror for high-power pulsed phosphate glass lasers
V. V. Samarkin, A. G. Aleksandrov, T. Jitsuno, P. N. Romanov, A. L. Rukosuev, A. V. Kudryashov 1086–1087
Lasers
980-nm, 15-W cw laser diodes on F-mount-type heat sinks
V. V. Bezotosnyi, O. N. Krokhin, V. A. Oleshchenko, V. F. Pevtsov, Yu. M. Popov, E. A. Cheshev 1088–1090
Integrated high-order surface diffraction gratings for diode lasers
V. V. Zolotarev, A. Yu. Leshko, N. A. Pikhtin, S. O. Slipchenko, Z. N. Sokolova, Ya. V. Lubyanskiy, N. V. Voronkova, I. S. Tarasov 1091–1097
Continuous-wave and actively Q-switched resonantly dual-end-pumped Er:YAG ceramic laser emitting at 1.6 μm
T. Y. Dai, Yu. Deng, You-Lun Ju, B. Q. Yao, X. M. Duan, Y. Z. Wang 1098–1100
40-fs hydrogen Raman laser
N. V. Didenko, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, L. L. Losev, V. S. Pazyuk, S. Yu. Tenyakov, V. Ya. Molchanov, S. I. Chizhikov, K. B. Yushkov 1101–1104
Active media
Laser generation of XeCl exciplex molecules in a longitudinal repetitively pulsed discharge in a Xe–CsCl mixture
A. M. Boichenko, M. S. Klenovskii 1105–1110
On the influence of the local vibration on spectral and laser characteristics of F2- colour centres in LiF crystals at low temperatures
A. G. Papashvili, S. N. Smetanin, M. E. Doroshenko 1111–1116
Control of laser radiation parameters
Structure of picosecond pulses of a Q-switched and mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser
V. I. Donin, D. V. Yakovin, A. V. Gribanov 1117–1120
Double resonance modulation characteristics of optically injection-locked Fabry–Perot lasers
E. S. Dorogush, A. A. Afonenko 1121–1124
Numerical investigation of multichannel laser beam phase locking in turbulent atmosphere
V. A. Volkov, M. V. Volkov, S. G. Garanin, F. A. Starikov 1125–1131
Autodyne effect in a single-mode Er fibre laser and the possibility of its usage for recognising the evaporated biotissue type
A. K. Dmitriev, A. N. Konovalov, V. A. Ul’yanov 1132–1136
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Generation of solitary waves from continuous radiation in a nonlinear oppositely directed coupler
E. V. Kazantseva, A. I. Maimistov 1137–1142
Optical power limiting in ensembles of colloidal Ag2S quantum dots
O. V. Ovchinnikov, M. S. Smirnov, A. S. Perepelitsa, T. S. Shatskikh, B. I. Shapiro 1143–1150
Optical metamaterials
Transient processes in the parametric interaction of counter-propagating waves
V. V. Slabko, A. K. Popov, S. A. Myslivets, E. V. Rasskazova, V. A. Tkachenko, A. K. Moskalev 1151–1152
Nanophotonics
Light absorption and plasmon-exciton interaction in three-layer nanorods with a gold core and outer shell composed of molecular J- and H-aggregates of dyes
B. I. Shapiro, E. S. Tyshkunova, A. D. Kondorskiy, V. S. Lebedev 1153–1160
Transport equation in the problem of the distribution function of nanoparticles in a colloidal solution exposed to laser pulses
N. A. Kirichenko, M. E. Shcherbina, A. A. Serkov, I. I. Rakov 1161–1165
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Water at the graphene–substrate interface: interaction with short laser pulses
V. D. Frolov, E. V. Zavedeev, P. A. Pivovarov, A. A. Khomich, A. N. Grigorenko, V. I. Konov 1166–1170
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Influence of Coulomb effects on the resolving power of multireflection mass-spectrometer systems
M. G. Skoblin, I. A. Kopaev, D. E. Greenfield, A. A. Makarov, M. A. Monastyrskiy, S. S. Alimpiev 1171–1177
Obituary
To the memory of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Borisevich
O. N. Krokhin 1178