Letters
Bismuth/erbium-doped germanosilicate fibre amplifier with a bandwidth above 200 nm
E. M. Dianov, K. E. Riumkin, V. F. Khopin, S. V. Alyshev, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. N. Gur’yanov, S. V. Firstov 973–975
Lasers
Compact transversely diode-pumped Nd : YAG laser with a self-pumped phase-conjugate multiloop cavity
G. V. Burkovsky, A. V. Fedin, A. P. Pogoda, A. S. Boreysho 976–978
Control of laser radiation parameters
Generation of ultrashort pulses with minimum duration of 90 fs in a hybrid mode-locked erbium-doped all-fibre ring laser
D. A. Dvoretskii, S. G. Sazonkin, V. S. Voropaev, M. A. Negin, S. O. Leonov, A. B. Pnev, V. E. Karasik, L. K. Denisov, A. A. Krylov, V. A. Davydov, E. D. Obraztsova 979–981
Influence of the input radiation pulse characteristics on the parameters of a XeF(C – A) amplifier in a THL-100 laser system
A. G. Yastremskii, N. G. Ivanov, V. F. Losev 982–988
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Extracavity and external cavity second-harmonic generation in a periodically poled silica fibre
E. I. Dontsova, S. I. Kablukov, I. A. Lobach, A. V. Dostovalov, S. A. Babin, A. V. Gladyshev, E. M. Dianov, C. Corbary, M. Ibsen, P. G. Kazanskii 989–994
Functional possibilities of nonlinear crystals for laser frequency conversion: biaxial crystals
Yu. M. Andreev, Yu. D. Arapov, S. G. Grechin, I. V. Kas’yanov, P. P. Nikolaev 995–1001
Filamentation of an annular laser beam with a vortex phase dislocation in fused silica
E. V. Vasil’ev, S. A. Shlenov 1002–1008
Post-filamentation propagation of high-power laser pulses in air in the regime of narrowly focused light channels
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, A. A. Ionin, D. V. Mokrousova, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn, E. S. Sunchugasheva 1009–1014
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Surface, structural and mechanical properties of zirconium ablated by KrF excimer laser radiation
Nisar Ali, Umm-i-Kalsoom, Shazia Bashir, Narjis Begum, Syed Waqas Ahmad 1015–1022
Terahertz radiation
Terahertz radiation in laser-induced charge separation in the irradiated plasma target
A. S. Kuratov, A. V. Brantov, Yu. M. Aliev, V. Yu. Bychenkov 1023–1030
Fibre optics
Fabrication of microstructured optical fibres by drawing preforms sealed at their top end
A. N. Denisov, A. F. Kosolapov, A. K. Senatorov, P. E. Pal’tsev, S. L. Semenov 1031–1039
Metamaterials
Intramode wave packet in a thin left-handed film with the spectrum near the frequency of the zero group velocity
D. A. Konkin, R. V. Litvinov, E. S. Parfenova, R. A. A.Rakhim, O. V. Stukach 1040–1046
SPECKLE SPECTROSCOPY
Speckle spectroscopy of fluorescent randomly inhomogeneous media
D. A. Zimnyakov, I. A. Asharchuk, S. A. Yuvchenko, A. P. Sviridov 1047–1054
Biophotonics
Effects of haemodilution on the optical properties of blood during coagulation studied by optical coherence tomography
B. Liu, Y. Liu, H. Wei, X. Yang, G. Wu, Z. Guo, H. Yang, Y. He, S. Xie 1055–1060
Laser Gyroscopes
Frequency response of a gas ring laser with a variable-sign frequency bias in the case of frequency nonreciprocity comparable with the bias amplitude
V. N. Gorshkov, M. E. Grushin, E. G. Lariontsev, I. I. Saveliev, N. I. Khokhlov 1061–1064
Personalia
On the Eightieth Birthday of Valentin Georgievich Dmitriev
O. N. Krokhin, G. M. Zverev, Yu. V. Gulyaev, I. B. Kovsh, I. A. Shcherbakov, V. A. Makarov, A. S. Bugaev, N. N. Kudryavtsev, S. M. Kopylov, A. A. Fomichev, Yu. D. Golyaev, S. R. Rustamov, S. G. Grechin, A. V. Priezzhev, A. S. Semenov 1065
In memory of Mikhail Yakovlevich Schelev
S. N. Bagayev, E. M. Dianov, V. I. Konov, O. N. Krokhin, G. A. Mesyats, V. V. Osiko, P. P. Pashinin, I. A. Shcherbakov 1066