Lasers
Laser performance of in-band pumped Er:LiYF4 and Er:LiLuF4 crystals
K. N. Gorbachenya, S. V. Kurilchik, V. E. Kisel, A. S. Yasukevich, N. V. Kuleshov, A. S. Nizamutdinov, S. L. Korableva, V. V. Semashko 95–99
Excitation and relaxation of metastable atomic states in an active medium of a repetitively pulsed copper vapour laser
P. A. Bokhan, Dm. E. Zakrevskii, M. A. Lavrukhin, N. A. Lyabin, A. D. Chursin 100–105
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Influence of the cubic spectral phase of high-power laser pulses on their self-phase modulation
V. N. Ginzburg, A. A. Kochetkov, I. V. Yakovlev, S. Yu. Mironov, A. A. Shaykin, E. A. Khazanov 106–108
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
X-ray generation by fast electrons propagating in nanofibres irradiated by a laser pulse of relativistic intensity
A. A. Andreev, K. Yu. Platonov 109–118
Thermal ablation of an aluminium film upon absorption of a femtosecond laser pulse
S. G. Bezhanov, A. P. Kanavin, S. A. Uryupin 119–124
On the role of multiphoton light absorption in pulsed laser nanoablation of diamond
M. S. Komlenok, V. V. Kononenko, V. M. Gololobov, V. I. Konov 125–127
Transmittance jump in a thin aluminium layer during laser ablation
N. E. Bykovsky, S. M. Pershin, A. A. Samokhin, Yu. V. Senatsky 128–132
Microstructure of the multiple-filamentation zone formed by femtosecond laser radiation in a solid dielectric
Yu. E. Geints, S. S. Golik, A. A. Zemlyanov, A. M. Kabanov, A. V. Petrov 133–141
Laser crystals and Braggg ratings
Numerical modelling of a fibre reflection filter based on a metal–dielectric diffraction structure with an increased optical damage threshold
V. S. Terentyev, V. A. Simonov 142–146
On the use of a chirped Bragg grating as a cavity mirror of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser
A. E. Zubko, E. V. Shashkov, A. V. Smirnov, N. S. Vorob’ev, V. I. Smirnov 147–149
Gamma radiation-induced blue shift of resonance peaks of Bragg gratings in pure silica fibres
A. V. Faustov, A. I. Gusarov, P. Mégret, M. Wuilpart, D. Kinet, A. V. Zhukov, S. G. Novikov, V. V. Svetukhin, A. A. Fotiadi 150–154
Metamaterials
Acousto-optical properties of metamaterials
V. I. Pustovoit 155–158
Nanooptics
Extremely tight focusing of light at the nanoapex of a metal microtip
A. B. Petrin 159–162
Laser beams
Control of the formation of vortex Bessel beams in uniaxial crystals by varying the beam divergence
V. D. Paranin, S. V. Karpeev, S. N. Khonina 163–168
Optical discharges
Sound spectrum of a pulsating optical discharge
G. N. Grachev, A. K. Dmitriev, I. B. Miroshnichenko, A. L. Smirnov, V. N. Tishchenko 169–172
Biophotonics
Capabilities of laser technology for manufacturing diagnostic peptide matrices with maximal density
O. I. Baum, E. M. Shcherbakov, A. Nesterov-Müller, E. N. Sobol’ 173–178
Acoustooptics
Acousto-optical modulation of light at a doubled sound frequency
V. M. Kotov, S. V. Averin, G. N. Shkerdin 179–180
Effect of optoelectronic feedback on the characteristics of acousto-optical collinear filtering
V. I. Balakshy, Yu. I. Kuznetsov, S. N. Mantsevich 181–184
Recording the synchrotron radiation by a picosecond streak camera for bunch diagnostics in cyclic accelerators
A. K. Vereschagin, N. S. Vorob’ev, P. B. Gornostaev, V. L. Dorokhov, S. S. Kryukov, V. I. Lozovoi, O. I. Meshkov, D. A. Nikiforov, A. V. Smirnov, E. V. Shashkov, M. Ya. Schelev 185–188