Lasers
Femtosecond compressed-nitrogen Raman laser
A. V. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, L. L. Losev, V. S. Pazyuk 1–4
Quasi-cw 808-nm 300-W laser diode arrays
V. V. Bezotosnyi, A. A. Kozyrev, N. S. Kondakova, S. A. Kondakov, O. N. Krokhin, G. T. Mikayelyan, V. A. Oleshchenko, Yu. M. Popov, E. A. Cheshev 5–6
Ti : sapphire laser synchronised with femtosecond Yb pump laser via nonlinear pulse coupling in Ti : sapphire active medium
N. V. Didenko, A. V. Konyashchenko, D. A. Konyashchenko, P. V. Kostryukov, I. I. Kuritsyn, A. P. Lutsenko, A. O. Mavritskiy 7–13
Combined optical parametric oscillator with continuous tuning of radiation wavelength in the spectral range 2.5 – 10.8 μm
D. B. Kolker, I. V. Sherstov, N. Yu. Kostyukova, A. A. Boyko, K. G. Zenov, R. V. Pustovalova 14–19
Single-frequency TEA CO2 laser with a bleaching spectral intracavity filter
V. R. Sorochenko 20–25
Control of laser radiation parameters
Study of lasing on the 4F3/2 → 4I13/2 secondary transition of Nd3+ ions in a phase-conjugate Nd3+ : YAG laser
S. N. Smetanin, M. N. Ershkov, S. A. Solokhin, A. E. Shepelev, A. V. Gavrilov, A. V. Fedin 26–31
Measurement and correction of the wavefront of the laser light in a turbid medium
I. Galaktionov, A. V. Kudryashov, Yu. V. Sheldakova, A. A. Byalko, G. Borsoni 32–37
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Angular distribution of electrons directly accelerated by an intense tightly focused laser pulse
O. E. Vais, S. G. Bochkarev, S. Ter-Avetisyan, V. Yu. Bychenkov 38–41
Postionisation of a spatially nonuniform plasma plume under high-intensity femtosecond laser irradiation
D. A. Krestovskikh, K. A. Ivanov, I. N. Tsymbalov, S. A. Shulyapov, V. V. Bukin, R. V. Volkov, A. A. Rupasov, A. B. Savel’ev 42–47
Selective laser ionisation of radionuclide 63Ni
G. O. Tsvetkov, A. B. D’yachkov, A. A. Gorkunov, A. V. Labozin, S. M. Mironov, V. A. Firsov, V. Ya. Panchenko 48–53
X-ray optics
Imaging diffraction VLS spectrometer for a wavelength range λ > 120 Å
E. A. Vishnyakov, A. O. Kolesnikov, A. A. Kuzin, D. V. Negrov, E. N. Ragozin, P. V. Sasorov, A. N. Shatokhin 54–57
Integrated optics
Abnormal blocking of a guided mode propagating in a silicon optical waveguide with periodic tunnel coupling
E. A. Kolosovskii, A. V. Tsarev 58–64
Surface electromagnetic waves
Reflection of terahertz monochromatic surface plasmon-polaritons by a plane mirror
V. V. Gerasimov, B. A. Knyazev, A. K. Nikitin 65–70
Photodetectors
Response of a matrix photodetector into components of an optical signal with different spatial frequencies
G. I. Greisukh, E. G. Ezhov, S. V. Kazin, S. A. Stepanov 71–74
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
On angiography with a Thomson laser-electron X-ray generator
A. V. Vinogradov, S. L. Vinogradov, N. V. D’yachkov, A. V. Polunina, A. A. Postnov 75–78
Control of image reproducibilty in a response of a stimulated echo hologram
G. I. Garnaeva, L. A. Nefed’ev, A. R. Sakhbieva 79–82
A factor limiting the accuracy of optical loss measurements in single-mode fibres: ‘frozen-in’ inhomogeneities of the Rayleigh backscatter coefficient
V. I. Busurin, B. G. Gorshkov, G. B. Gorshkov, M. L. Grinshtein, M. A. Taranov 83–86