Invited paper
Spectral characterisation of aperiodic normal-incidence Sb/B4C multilayer mirrors for the λ < 124 Å range
E. A. Vishnyakov, I. A. Kopylets, V. V. Kondratenko, A. O. Kolesnikov, A. S. Pirozhkov, E. N. Ragozin, A. N. Shatokhin 189–196
Lasers and amplifiers
Effect of the waveguide layer thickness on output characteristics of semiconductor lasers with emission wavelength from 1500 to 1600 nm
A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, P. V. Gorlachuk, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Padalitsa, S. O. Slipchenko, A. V. Lyutetskiy, D. A. Veselov, N. A. Pikhtin 197–200
Diamond Raman laser emitting at 1194, 1419, and 597 nm
V. P. Pashinin, V. G. Ral’chenko, A. P. Bol’shakov, E. E. Ashkinazi, V. I. Konov 201–205
Numerical analysis of amplification of picosecond pulses in a THL-100 laser system with an increase in the pump energy of the XeF(C – A) amplifier
A. G. Yastremskii, N. G. Ivanov, V. F. Losev 206–211
Solid-state Yb : YAG amplifier pumped by a single-mode laser at 920 nm
I. V. Obronov, A. S. Demkin, D. V. Myasnikov 212–214
Amplified luminescence of heavily doped AlxGa1-xN structures under optical pumping
P. A. Bokhan, K. S. Zhuravlev, D. È. Zakrevskii, T. V. Malin, I. V. Osinnykh, N. V. Fateev 215–221
Broadband mid-IR difference-frequency generation in 5 mol % MgO-doped periodically and aperiodically poled lithium niobate
Jiandong Zhang, Jian Jiang, Kai Wang, Xuan Xiao, Siyao Yu, Zuxing Zhang 222–227
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Investigation of the dynamics of a nonlinear optical response in glassy chalcogenide semiconductors by the pump–probe method
E. A. Romanova, Yu. S. Kuzyutkina, V. S. Shiryaev, S. Guizard 228–234
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Processes of interaction of laser radiation with porous transparent materials during their ablation
V. V. Osipov, V. V. Lisenkov, V. V. Platonov, E. V. Tikhonov 235–243
Effect of absorbing coating on ablation of diamond by IR laser pulses
T. V. Kononenko, P. A. Pivovarov, A. A. Khomich, R. A. Khmelnitskii, V. I. Konov 244–250
Formation of nanoparticles from thin silver films irradiated by laser pulses in air
A. A. Nastulyavichus, N. A. Smirnov, S. I. Kudryashov, A. A. Ionin, I. N. Saraeva, N. I. Busleev, A. A. Rudenko, R. A. Khmelnitskii, D. A. Zayarnyi 251–254
Modelling of heating and photoexcitation of single-crystal silicon under multipulse irradiation by a nanosecond laser at 1.06 μm
D. S. Polyakov, E. B. Yakovlev 255–262
Effect of nanosecond UV laser irradiation on luminescence and absorption in silver- and copper-containing phosphate glasses
A. A. Murashov, A. I. Sidorov, M. V. Stoliarchuk 263–267
Image recognition
Analysis of contour images using optics of spiral beams
V. G. Volostnikov, S. A. Kishkin, S. P. Kotova 268–274
Fibre-optic sensors
Temperature evolution of interferometer visibility in a small radius fibre coil current sensor
S. K. Morshnev, V. P. Gubin, N. I. Starostin, Ya. V. Przhiyalkovskiy, A. I. Sazonov 275–282
Laser Gyroscopes
The nonmagnetic component of the zero bias of a Zeeman laser gyroscope
Yu. Yu. Kolbas, M. E. Grushin, V. N. Gorshkov 283–289
Obituary
In memory of Vasilii Ivanovich Shveikin (4 February 1935 – 4 January 2018)
O. N. Krokhin, Yu. V. Gulyaev, A. S. Sigov, I. A. Shcherbakov, M. G. Vasil’ev, V. P. Duraev, A. G. Zabrodskii, G. M. Zverev, I. B. Kovsh, Yu. A. Krotov, E. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. M. Popov, A. S. Semenov, V. A. Simakov 290