Personalia
In memory of Nikolai Gennad’evich Basov
O. N. Krokhin 1075–1076
Special Issue ‘Optical Fibres and Their Applications’
Work on optical fibres in Russia
S. L. Semenov 1077
Mid-IR hollow-core silica fibre Raman lasers
A. V. Gladyshev, A. F. Kosolapov, A. N. Kolyadin, M. S. Astapovich, A. D. Pryamikov, M. E. Likhachev, I. A. Bufetov 1078–1082
Dynamics and instabilities in long SRS fibre lasers with linear and ring cavities
L. A. Melnikov, Yu. A. Mazhirina 1083–1090
Continuous-wave bismuth fibre laser tunable from 1.65 to 1.8 μm
V. M. Paramonov, S. A. Vasil’ev, O. I. Medvedkov, S. V. Firstov, M. A. Mel’kumov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 1091–1093
Quasi-regenerative mode locking in a compact all-polarisation-maintaining-fibre laser
B. N. Nyushkov, A. V. Ivanenko, S. M. Kobtsev, V. S. Pivtsov, S. A. Farnosov, P. V. Pokasov, I. I. Korel’ 1094–1098
Optical properties of heavily ytterbium- and fluorine-doped aluminosilicate core fibres
M. V. Yashkov, A. N. Abramov, A. N. Gur’yanov, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. V. Shubin, M. M. Bubnov, M. E. Likhachev 1099–1104
Estimation of the signal gain in a linear-cavity ytterbium laser
S. A. Efremov, O. V. Shtyrina, S. B. Medvedev, I. A. Yarutkina, A. S. Skidin, M. P. Fedoruk 1105–1108
Factors reducing the efficiency of ytterbium fibre lasers and amplifiers operating near 0.98 μm
S. S. Aleshkina, T. L. Bardina, D. S. Lipatov, K. K. Bobkov, M. M. Bubnov, A. N. Gur’yanov, M. E. Likhachev 1109–1114
Effect of the preform fabrication process on the properties of all-silica optical fibres
A. B. Grishchenko 1115–1119
Radiation-induced absorption in bismuth-doped germanosilicate fibres
S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, A. V. Kharakhordin, S. V. Alyshev, K. E. Riumkin, M. A. Mel’kumov, A. M. Khegai, P. F. Kashaykin, A. N. Gur’yanov, E. M. Dianov 1120–1124
Transparent photocatalytic coatings on the surface of the tips of medical fibre-optic bundles
S. K. Evstropiev, V. M. Volynkin, V. M. Kiselev, K. V. Dukel’skii, K. S. Evstropyev, V. V. Demidov, Yu. A. Gatchin 1125–1127
Theorem of comparative sensitivity of fibre sensors
M. I. Belovolov, V. M. Paramonov, M. M. Belovolov 1128–1134
Nonlinear distortions as nonlinear noise in coherent fibre-optic communication lines
A. E. Zhitelev, V. A. Konyshev, S. N. Lukinykh, O. E. Nanii, V. N. Treshchikov, R. R. Ubaydullaev 1135–1139
Investigation of nonlinear effects in the transmission of a QAM signal in fibre optic communication lines using different carrier pulses
O. S. Sidelnikov, A. S. Skidin, M. P. Fedoruk 1140–1143
Comparative analysis of algorithms for compensation of nonlinear distortions in fibre-optic links
V. A. Burdin, A. V. Bourdine, I. V. Grigorov 1144–1146
Dynamic neural network-based methods for compensation of nonlinear effects in multimode communication lines
O. S. Sidelnikov, A. A. Redyuk, S. Sygletos 1147–1149
Spatiotemporal multiplexing based on hexagonal multicore optical fibres
I. S. Chekhovskoy, M. A. Sorokina, A. M. Rubenchik, M. P. Fedoruk 1150–1153
Lasers
Highly efficient red single transverse mode superluminescent diodes
E. V. Andreeva, A. S. Anikeev, S. N. Il’chenko, A. Yu. Chamorovskiy, S. D. Yakubovich 1154–1157
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Laser-induced transfer of gel microdroplets for cell printing
V. I. Yusupov, V. S. Zhigarkov, E. S. Churbanova, E. A. Chutko, S. A. Evlashin, M. V. Gorlenko, V. S. Cheptsov, N. V. Minaev, V. N. Bagratashvili 1158–1165
Influence of the transfer of fast charged particles – products of thermonuclear reactions – on the burning of targets
G. V. Dolgoleva, A. I. Zykova 1166–1170
Surfacep lasmons
Multimode theory of plasmon excitation at a metal–photonic crystal interface
T. I. Kuznetsova, N. A. Raspopov 1171–1177