Lasers
Experimental studies of 1.5–1.6 μm high-power asymmetricwaveguide single-mode lasers
P. V. Gorlachuk, A. V. Ivanov, V. D. Kurnosov, K. V. Kurnosov, A. A. Marmalyuk, V. I. Romantsevich, V. A. Simakov, R. V. Chernov 495–501
Effect of pumping level on the uniformity of the power and spectrum distributions over the emitting aperture of cw laser diode bars
V. V. Bezotosnyi, V. P. Gordeev, V. A. Oleshchenko 502–505
Repetitively pulsed holmium fibre laser with an intracavity Mach–Zehnder modulator
I. V. Zhluktova, V. A. Kamynin, V. G. Voronin, O. E. Nanii, V. B. Tsvetkov 506–509
Frequency of self-modulation oscillations in a solid-state coupled-cavity ring laser
I. I. Zolotoverkh, E. G. Lariontsev 510–515
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Acoustic signal investigation in the ice melting under high-power laser irradiation at a wavelength of 2940 nm
N. N. Il’ichev, A. V. Sidorin, È. S. Gulyamova, P. P. Pashinin 516–520
Laser beams
Generation of nonuniformly polarised vortex Bessel beams by an interference polariser
S. V. Karpeev, V. D. Paranin, S. N. Khonina 521–526
Generalised quantised spiral beams
V. G. Volostnikov 527–531
Extremely short pulses
Propagation of a light pulse with a duration of less than one period in a resonant amplifying medium
R. M. Arkhipov, M. V. Arkhipov, I. Babushkin, A. V. Pakhomov, N. N. Rosanov 532–536
Diffraction gratings
Subwavelength diffraction gratings in the visible spectral range
N. I. Petrov, V. A. Danilov, V. V. Popov, B. A. Usievich 537–544
Experimental study of high-order reflections on volume reflection holographic gratings
E. F. Pen 545–549
Waveguides
Erbium–ytterbium codoped phosphate core/double silica clad composite optical fibres for compact amplifiers
B. I. Galagan, B. I. Denker, O. N. Egorova, V. A. Kamynin, A. A. Ponosova, S. E. Sverchkov, S. L. Semenov, V. B. Tsvetkov 550–553
Terahertz radiation
A source of THz radiation with electric field strength of more than 1 MV cm-1 on the basis of 100-Hz femtosecond Cr : forsterite laser system
A. V. Ovchinnikov, O. V. Chefonov, D. S. Sitnikov, I. V. Il’ina, S. I. Ashitkov, M. B. Agranat 554–558
Laser medicine
Effect of laser intensity and exposure time on photothermal therapy with nanoparticles heated by a 793-nm diode laser and tissue optical clearing
M. Aliannezhadi, M. Minbashi, V. V. Tuchin 559–564
Laser-electron generators: the sources of narrow-band X-ray radiation for low-invasive coronary angiography
A. V. Vinogradov, N. V. D’yachkov, A. V. Polunina, N. L. Popov, V. I. Shvedunov 565–572
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Selection of a two-dimensional image edge using polarisation-independent acousto-optic diffraction
V. M. Kotov, S. V. Averin, E. V. Kotov 573–576
Laser autodyne registration of nanodisplacements under laser wavelength modulation
D. A. Usanov, A. V. Skripal, E. I. Astakhov, S. Yu. Dobdin 577–581
Analysis of the influence of geometrical dimensions and external magnetic field on optical properties of InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot slow light devices
B. Choupanzadeh, H. Katuzian, R. Kohandani 582–588