Quantum Technologies
Quantum technologies in Russia
A. A. Kalachev 879
Superconducting qubits in Russia
I. S. Besedin, G. P. Fedorov, A. Yu. Dmitriev, V. V. Ryazanov 880–885
Three-photon laser excitation of mesoscopic ensembles of cold rubidium Rydberg atoms
E. A. Yakshina, D. B. Tret’yakov, V. M. Èntin, I. I. Beterov, I. I. Ryabtsev 886–893
Quantum memory in the revival of silenced echo scheme in an optical resonator
M. M. Minnegaliev, K. I. Gerasimov, R. V. Urmancheev, S. A. Moiseev 894–897
Microwave quantum memory on a controlled frequency comb
K. V. Petrovnin, N. S. Perminov, O. N. Sherstyukov, S. A. Moiseev 898–901
Generation of narrow-band single-photon states via spontaneous parametric down-conversion for quantum memories in doped crystals
D. O. Akatiev, I. Z. Latypov, A. V. Shkalikov, A. A. Kalachev 902–905
On mathematical and physical approaches to constructing a quantum cluster state in continuous variables, or is it possible to construct a cluster from different modes?
S. B. Korolev, E. A. Vashukevich, T. Yu. Golubeva, Yu. M. Golubev 906–911
Application of polycrystalline diamonds for magnetometry based on interactions of nonequivalently oriented groups of NV centres
R. A. Akhmedzhanov, L. A. Gushchin, I. V. Zelensky, V. A. Nizov, N. A. Nizov, D. A. Sobgaida 912–915
Invited paper
Aperiodic reflection diffraction gratings for soft X-ray radiation and their application
E. A. Vishnyakov, A. O. Kolesnikov, A. S. Pirozhkov, E. N. Ragozin, A. N. Shatokhin 916–929
Lasers
Tunable mode-locked soliton fibre laser based on single-walled carbon nanotubes
H. Ahmad, S. A. Reduan, M. F. Ismail, K. Thambiratnam 930–935
Parametric generation in a PPLN crystal pumped by a Q-switched mode-locked Nd : YAG laser: comparison of the superluminescent and singly resonant operation regimes
V. I. Donin, D. V. Yakovin, A. V. Gribanov, M. D. Yakovin 936–940
1500-nm Q-switched fibre laser with carbon nanotubes
F. D. Muhammad, M. Z. Zulkifli, H. Ahmad 941–944
Laser plasma
Physical mechanism of electron bunch generation by an ultrarelativistic-intensity laser pulse passing through a sharp plasma boundary
S. V. Kuznetsov 945–953
Photonic crystals
Peculiarities of electromagnetic field distribution in a finite one-dimensional photonic crystal at oblique incidence of radiation
V. V. Kapaev, M. N. Zhuravlev 954–961
Nanoparticles
Synthesis of silver nanospheroids in silver-containing nanoporous glass under the effect of nanosecond laser pulses
A. I. Sidorov, T. V. Antropova 962–966
Optical frequency standards
Creation of the first Russian time and frequency standard on a fountain of ultracold rubidium atoms
K. Yu. Pavlenko, Yu. K. Pavlenko, A. A. Belyaev, I. Yu. Blinov, M. N. Khromov, S. Bize, L. Lorini 967–972
Frequency shift of an optical frequency standard as a function of probe modulation of the radiation frequency, pressure, and gas temperature in an absorbing cell
S. M. Ignatovich, N. L. Kvashnin, M. N. Skvortsov 973–976
Laser photoemission
Surface localisation of laser photoelectron emission using Cu2O and Ag film structures
S. V. Andreev, P. A. Danilov, S. I. Kudryashov, E. A. Ryabov 977–982
Biophotonics
On the possibility of laser ektacytometry measurement of the kurtosis for erythrocyte deformability distribution
S. Yu. Nikitin 983–987
Personalia
On the Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Sergei Dmitrievich Velikanov
S. A. Buiko, S. G. Garanin, S. V. Garnov, N. A. Zaretskiy, N. G. Zakharov, G. G. Kochemasov, O. N. Krokhin, S. A. Sukharev 988