Lasers
Lasing in a Tm:Ho:Yb3Al5O12 crystal pumped into the 3H6 – 3F4 transition
Yu. D. Zavartsev, A. I. Zagumennyi, Yu. L. Kalachev, S. A. Kutovoi, V. A. Mikhaĭlov, I. A. Shcherbakov 189–192
Comparative characteristics of Yb:(YLa)2O3 laser ceramics
I. L. Snetkov, I. B. Mukhin, O. V. Palashov 193–196
Study of the emission spectra of a 1320-nm semiconductor disk laser and its second harmonic
K. S. Gochelashvili, S. I. Derzhavin, O. N. Evdokimova, I. O. Zolotovskii, S. V. Podmazov 197–200
Copper vapour laser with an efficient semiconductor pump generator having comparable pump pulse and output pulse durations
A. A. Yurkin 201–204
High-power gas-discharge excimer ArF, KrCl, KrF and XeCl lasers utilising two-component gas mixtures without a buffer gas
A. M. Razhev, E. S. Kargapol’tsev, D. S. Churkin 205–209
Pulsed inductive HF laser
A. M. Razhev, D. S. Churkin, E. S. Kargapol’tsev, S. V. Demchuk 210–212
Control of laser radiation parameters
Multi-pulse operation of a dissipative soliton fibre laser based on nonlinear polarisation rotation
H. L. Yu, X. L. Wang, P. Zhou, J. B. Chen 213–217
Highly efficient, versatile, self-Q-switched, high-repetition-rate microchip laser generating Ince–Gaussian modes for optical trapping
Jun Dong, Yu He, Xiao Zhou, Shengchuang Bai 218–222
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Measurement of ablation threshold of oxide-film-coated aluminium nanoparticles irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses
O. V. Chefonov, A. V. Ovchinnikov, I. V. Il’ina, M. B. Agranat 223–228
Deformation of a laser beam in the fabrication of graphite microstructures inside a volume of diamond
T. V. Kononenko, E. V. Zavedeev 229–235
Characteristics of photonic nanojets from ordered microassemblies of dielectric spheres
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, E. K. Panina 236–241
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Characteristics of SBS dynamics in single-mode optical fibres
A. A. Gordeev, V. F. Efimkov, I. G. Zubarev, S. I. Mikhailov, V. B. Sobolev 242–247
Laser isotope separation
Selective IR multiphoton dissociation of molecules in a pulsed gas-dynamically cooled molecular flow interacting with a solid surface as an alternative to low-energy methods of molecular laser isotope separation
G. N. Makarov, A. N. Petin 248–254
Laser spectroscopy
Optimisation of external cavity parameters of a weak absorption laser spectrometer
P. V. Korolenko, V. V. Lagunov, I. V. Nikolaev, V. N. Ochkin, S. N. Tskhai, A. N. Yatskevich 255–258
Lidars
Optimisation of frequency-modulated characteristics of output radiation in a lidar with Raman amplification
V. I. Grigorievsky, Ya. A. Tezadov 259–261
Fiber optics
Influence of fibre design and curvature on crosstalk in multi-core fibre
O. N. Egorova, M. S. Astapovich, L. A. Melnikov, M. Yu. Salganskii, V. P. Mishkin, K. N. Nishchev, S. L. Semenov, E. M. Dianov 262–266
Hollow-core revolver fibre with a double-capillary reflective cladding
A. F. Kosolapov, G. K. Alagashev, A. N. Kolyadin, A. D. Pryamikov, A. S. Biriukov, I. A. Bufetov, E. M. Dianov 267–270
Effect of temperature on the active properties of erbium-doped optical fibres
L. V. Kotov, A. D. Ignat’ev, M. M. Bubnov, M. E. Likhachev 271–276
Laser hydrophones
Laser adaptive holographic hydrophone
R. V. Romashko, Yu. N. Kulchin, M. N. Bezruk, S. A. Ermolaev 277–280
Optical frequency standards
Stabilisation of a femtosecond frequency standard using a Michelson interferometer
E. V. Baklanov, A. K. Dmitriev 281–282