Lasers
1-kHz-repetition-rate femtosecond Raman laser
N. V. Didenko, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, L. L. Losev, V. S. Pazyuk, S. Yu. Tenyakov 581–585
Investigation of lasing characteristics of domestic Yb : YAG laser ceramics
I. L. Snetkov, O. V. Palashov, V. V. Osipov, I. B. Mukhin, R. N. Maksimov, V. A. Shitov, K. E. Luk’yashin 586–588
New efficient laser dyes for the red region of the spectrum. Part 1. Peri-indenones
S. P. Belov, O. A. Burdukova, I. V. Komlev, V. A. Petukhov, V. A. Povedailo, M. A. Semenov 589–593
Highly reliable high-power superluminescent diodes with three single-mode active channels
E. V. Andreeva, S. N. Il’chenko, Yu. V. Kurnyavko, V. N. Luk’yanov, V. R. Shidlovskiĭ, S. D. Yakubovich 594–596
Two-micron lasing on diode-pumped Y2O3 : Tm ceramics
P. A. Ryabochkina, A. N. Chabushkin, Yu. L. Kopylov, V. V. Balashov, K. V. Lopukhin 597–600
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Optical parametric oscillator of mid-IR, visible and UV ranges with synchronous pumping by a Q-switched mode-locked Nd : YAG laser
V. I. Donin, M. D. Yakovin, D. V. Yakovin 601–605
Measuring nonlinear reflectance of laser radiation with a wavelength of 2940 nm from silica glass – water and silica glass – ethanol interfaces
È. S. Gulyamova, N. N. Il’ichev, P. P. Pashinin, V. I. Polyanskii, A. V. Sidorin 606–608
Generation of ultra-short THz pulses in new optical nonlinear materials based on organic polymers
S. L. Mikerin, A. I. Plekhanov, A. E. Simanchuk, A. V. Yakimanskii 609–611
Fiber optics
Anti-Stokes luminescence in bismuth-doped aluminoand phosphosilicate fibres under two-step IR excitation
S. V. Firstov, K. E. Riumkin, V. F. Khopin, S. V. Alyshev, E. G. Firstova, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 612–616
Propagation of femtosecond pulses in a hollow-core revolver fibre
Yu. P. Yatsenko, A. A. Krylov, A. D. Pryamikov, A. F. Kosolapov, A. N. Kolyadin, A. V. Gladyshev, I. A. Bufetov 617–626
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Two-stage laser-induced synthesis of linear carbon chains
A. O. Kucherik, S. M. Arakelyan, S. V. Garnov, S. V. Kutrovskaya, D. S. Nogtev, A. V. Osipov, K. S. Khor’kov 627–633
Nanooptics
Effect of a dimer of nanoparticles on the linewidth of forbidden E2 transitions
D. V. Guzatov, V. V. Klimov 634–639
Photonic crystals
Investigation of band-gap properties in one-dimensional ternary photonic crystals with a single defect layer
Ru-Yi Tang, Jian-Wei Wu, Bikash Nakarmi 640–643
Laser beams
Near-field focusing of an optical wave by diffraction gratings
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov 644–649
Resonators
Two-channel method for measuring losses in a ring optical resonator at a wavelength of 632.8 nm
V. V. Azarova, A. S. Bessonov, A. L. Bondarev, A. P. Makeev, E. A. Petrukhin 650–654
Transmission and processing of optical information
Microring resonator-based optical router for photonic networks-on-chip
Zhihua Yu, Zhang Qi, Jin Xin, Zhao Juan, Baghsiahi Hadi, D. R. Selviah 655–660
Optical traps
Magneto-optical trap formed by elliptically polarised light waves for Mg atoms
O. N. Prudnikov, D. V. Brazhnikov, A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin, A. N. Goncharov 661–667
Transient processes under dynamic excitation of a coherent population trapping resonance
S. A. Khripunov, D. A. Radnatarov, S. M. Kobtsev, V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, M. Yu. Basalaev, M. V. Balabas, V. A. Andryushkov, I. D. Popkov 668–671
Personalia
On the 100th Birthday of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
E. M. Dianov, V. I. Konov, O. N. Krokhin, V. V. Osiko, P. P. Pashinin, I. A. Shcherbakov 672–674