Lasers
Temporal compression of pulses from a 100-KHz-repetiton-rate femtosecond ytterbium laser
N. V. Didenko, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, L. L. Losev, V. S. Pazyuk, S. Yu. Tenyakov, V. V. Bryukhanov 675–678
Spectral features and thermal resistance of 976-nm cw laser diodes with a power up to 15 W
V. V. Bezotosnyi, O. N. Krokhin, V. A. Oleshchenko, V. F. Pevtsov, Yu. M. Popov, E. A. Cheshev 679–681
Holmium laser with an acousto-optic paratellurite filter
A. V. Mukhin, S. D. Velikanov, V. D. Glukhodedov, N. G. Zakharov, Yu. N. Frolov 682–684
Analysis of characteristics of a diode-pumped rubidium vapour laser using a kinetic algorithm
He Cai, You Wang, Wei Zhang, Liangping Xue, Hongyuan Wang, Juhong Han, Guofei An, Zhigang Jiang, Ming Gao, Jie Zhou, Zhiye Liao 685–692
Amplified spontaneous emission spectrum at the output of a diode amplifier saturated by an input monochromatic wave
A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Drakin, N. V. D’yachkov, T. I. Gushchik 693–698
Intrinsic spontaneous emission-induced fluctuations of the output optical beam power and phase in a diode amplifier
A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Drakin, N. V. D’yachkov, T. I. Gushchik 699–702
Divergence and polarisation of radiation of a wide-aperture chemical DF laser with an unstable resonator
V. Ya. Agroskin, B. G. Bravy, G. K. Vasil’ev, V. I. Gur’ev, V. G. Karel’skii, S. A. Kashtanov, E. F. Makarov, S. A. Sotnichenko, Yu. A. Chernyshev 703–705
Active media
Experimental results on the dissociation of molecular iodine in the presence of singlet oxygen molecules
M. V. Zagidullin, N. A. Khvatov, M. S. Malyshev, M. I. Svistun 706–712
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Influence of laser-induced breakdown on the fragmentation of gold nanoparticles in water
A. A. Serkov, P. G. Kuzmin, I. I. Rakov, G. A. Shafeev 713–718
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Z-scanning under monochromatic laser pumping: a study of saturatable absorption in a suspension of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
G. M. Mikheev, R. I. Krivenkov, K. G. Mikheev, A. V. Okotrub, T. N. Mogileva 719–725
Laser beams
Properties of vortex beams formed by an array of fibre lasers and their propagation in a turbulent atmosphere
V. P. Aksenov, V. V. Dudorov, V. V. Kolosov 726–732
Generation of Hermite–Gaussian modes of high-power femtosecond laser radiation using binary-phase diffractive optical elements
A. S. Larkin, D. V. Pushkarev, S. A. Degtyarev, S. N. Khonina, A. B. Savel’ev 733–737
Optical fibres
Quasi-single-mode hybrid fibre with anomalous dispersion in the 1 μm range
S. S. Aleshkina, M. V. Yashkov, A. K. Senatorov, L. D. Iskhakova, M. M. Bubnov, A. N. Gur’yanov, M. E. Likhachev 738–742
Photonic crystal structures
Defect modes of one-dimensional photonic-crystal structure with a resonance nanocomposite layer
S. G. Moiseev, V. A. Ostatochnikov 743–748
Quantum interferometry
Quantum interference of biphotons with a Doppler frequency shift
E. G. Lariontsev 749–752
THz radiation
Optical-to-THz radiation conversion on a semi-metal surface
V. A. Mironov, I. V. Oladyshkin, D. A. Fadeev 753–758
Holographic memory
Detection of correlated fragments in a sequence of images by superimposed Fourier holograms
A. V. Pavlov 759–765
Personalia
On the 90th Birthday of Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov
V. A. Makarov 766–768