Review
Why plasma harmonics?
R. A. Ganeev 785–796
Lasers
Transversely diode-pumped alkali metal vapour laser
A. I. Parkhomenko, A. M. Shalagin 797–806
Efficient 1.9-μm Raman generation in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core fibre
A. V. Gladyshev, A. N. Kolyadin, A. F. Kosolapov, Yu. P. Yatsenko, A. D. Pryamikov, A. S. Biryukov, I. A. Bufetov, E. M. Dianov 807–812
Pulsed ytterbium-doped fibre laser with a combined modulator based on single-wall carbon nanotubes
D. V. Khudyakov, A. A. Borodkin, A. S. Lobach, S. K. Vartapetov 813–818
Effect of microstructural features on the laser efficiency of Nd3+:Y3Al5O12 ceramics
I. O. Vorona, R. P. Yavetskiy, A. V. Tolmachev, O. L. Shpilinskaya, Jiang Li, Yubai Pan, V. L. Voznyy 819–822
Scaling of energy characteristics of polycrystalline Fe2+:ZnSe laser at room temperature
E. M. Gavrishchuk, V. B. Ikonnikov, S. Yu. Kazantsev, I. G. Kononov, S. A. Rodin, D. V. Savin, N. A. Timofeeva, K. N. Firsov 823–827
Control of laser radiation parameters
Frequency control of tunable lasers using a frequency-calibrated λ-meter in an experiment on preparation of Rydberg atoms in a magneto-optical trap
S. A. Saakyan, V. A. Sautenkov, E. V. Vilshanskaya, V. V. Vasiliev, B. B. Zelener, B. V. Zelener 828–832
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Interaction of elliptically polarised cross-degenerate cnoidal waves in an isotropic gyrotropic medium with spatial dispersion of cubic nonlinearity
V. A. Makarov, V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 833–836
Phase control of group velocity of light in an InGaN/GaN quantum dot nanostructure
H. Jafarzadeh, E. Ahmadi Sangachin, Seyyed Hossein Asadpour 837–843
Generation of a broad IR spectrum and N-soliton compression in a longitudinally inhomogeneous dispersion-shifted fibre
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. A. Korobko, O. G. Okhotnikov, D. A. Stolyarov, A. A. Sysolyatin 844–852
Optics and technology of nanostructures
Optics of colloidal quantum-confined CdSe nanoscrolls
R. B. Vasiliev, M. S. Sokolikova, A. G. Vitukhnovskii, S. A. Ambrozevich, A. S. Selyukov, V. S. Lebedev 853–857
Formation of an ensemble of silver nanoparticles in the process of surface evaporation of glass optical waveguides doped with silver ions by the radiation of a pulsed CO2 laser
V. I. Egorov, A. V. Nashchekin, A. I. Sidorov 858–862
Laser acceleration of electrons
Enhanced direct laser vacuum acceleration of a charged particle in crossing plane-wave laser beams
H. Lin, C. P. Liu, C. Wang, B. F. Shen 863–867
Integrated optics
Investigation of optical properties of multilayer dielectric structures using prism-coupling technique
V. I. Sokolov, V. N. Glebov, A. M. Malyutin, S. I. Molchanova, E. V. Khaydukov, V. Ya. Panchenko 868–872
Laser technologies
Experimental comparison of laser energy losses in high-quality laser-oxygen cutting of low-carbon steel using radiation from fibre and CO2 lasers
A. A. Golyshev, A. G. Malikov, A. M. Orishich, V. B. Shulyat’ev 873–878