Lasers
Investigation of Fe:ZnSe laser in pulsed and repetitively pulsed regimes
S. D. Velikanov, N. A. Zaretskiy, E. A. Zotov, V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, O. N. Krokhin, A. A. Maneshkin, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, S. A. Savinova, Ya. K. Skasyrsky, M. P. Frolov, R. S. Chuvatkin, I. M. Yutkin 1–7
Laser generation in polycrystalline Cr2+:ZnSe with undoped faces
D. V. Savin, E. M. Gavrishchuk, V. B. Ikonnikov, O. N. Eremeykin, A. S. Egorov 8–10
Anomalously high noise levels in a fibre Bragg grating semiconductor laser
V. D. Kurnosov, K. V. Kurnosov 11–14
Effect of parameter variations on the static and dynamic behaviour of a self-assembled quantum-dot laser using circuit-level modelling
M. Razm-Pa, F. Emami 15–22
Spectral and lasing characteristics of 1% Ho:YAG ceramics under intracavity pumping
S. N. Bagayev, V. V. Osipov, S. M. Vatnik, V. A. Shitov, I. A. Vedin, P. F. Kurbatov, R. N. Maksimov, K. E. Luk’yashin, A. A. Pavlyuk 23–25
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Generation of bound states of pulses in a soliton laser with complex relaxation of a saturable absorber
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. A. Korobko, R. V. Gumenyuk, O. G. Okhotnikov 26–34
Consistent dynamics of the components of an elliptically polarised wave with zero mean amplitudes in a nonlinear isotropic gyrotropic medium in the adiabatic approximation
V. A. Makarov, V. M. Petnikova, K. V. Rudenko, V. V. Shuvalov 35–40
Phase-dependent high refractive index without absorption in a four-level inverted-Y atomic system
Zhi-Qiang Zeng, Yu-Ping Wang, Fu-Ti Liu, Zeng-Hui Gao 41–46
Laser radiation frequency doubling in a single-crystal fibre based on a stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystal
V. V. Kashin, D. A. Nikolaev, S. Ya. Rusanov, V. B. Tsvetkov 47–49
Nanostructures
Bulk photoemission from metal films and nanoparticles
R. Sh. Ikhsanov, V. E. Babicheva, I. E. Protsenko, A. V. Uskov, M. E. Guzhva 50–58
Fibre optics
Luminescence properties of IR-emitting bismuth centres in SiO2-based glasses in the UV to near-IR spectral region
E. G. Firstova, I. A. Bufetov, V. F. Khopin, V. V. Vel’miskin, S. V. Firstov, G. A. Bufetova, K. N. Nishchev, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 59–65
Birefringence in anisotropic optical fibres studied by polarised light Brillouin reflectometry
A. S. Smirnov, V. V. Burdin, Yu. A. Konstantinov, A. S. Petukhov, I. R. Drozdov, Ya. S. Kuz’minykh, V. G. Besprozvannykh 66–68
Optical transmission of information
Dependence of the bit error rate on the signal power and length of a single-channel coherent single-span communication line (100 Gbit s-1) with polarisation division multiplexing
N. V. Gurkin, V. A. Konyshev, O. E. Nanii, A. G. Novikov, V. N. Treshchikov, R. R. Ubaydullaev 69–74
Numerical simulation of current experimental 100 Gbit s-1 DWDM communication lines
O. V. Yushko, O. E. Nanii, A. A. Redyuk, V. N. Treshchikov, M. P. Fedoruk 75–77
Laser Gyroscopes
Precise laser gyroscope for autonomous inertial navigation
A. G. Kuznetsov, A. V. Molchanov, M. V. Chirkin, E. A. Izmailov 78–88
Slowing of light
Theoretical analysis of multiple quantum-well, slow-light devices under applied external fields using a fully analytical model in fractional dimension
R. Kohandani, H. Kaatuzian 89–94