Special issue ‘Physics of ultracold atoms and their applications’
Physics of ultracold atoms in Russia: topical research
I. I. Ryabtsev, N. N. Kolachevsky, A. V. Taichenachev 409
On the Ninetieth Birthday of Sergei Glebovich Rautian
A.M. Shalagin 410–411
Spectroscopy of the quadrupole clock transition of ytterbium-171 ions for optical frequency standard development
S. V. Chepurov, A. A. Lugovoy, O. N. Prudnikov, A. V. Taichenachev, S. N. Bagayev 412–417
Optical pumping of ultracold thulium atoms to a lower level of the clock transition and study of their depolarisation
E. S. Fedorova, D. O. Tregubov, A. A. Golovizin, G. A. Vishnyakova, D. A. Mishin, D. I. Provorchenko, K. Yu. Khabarova, V. N. Sorokin, N. N. Kolachevsky 418–423
Temperature drift contribution to frequency instability of silicon Fabry–Perot cavities
N. O. Zhadnov, G. A. Vishnyakova, K. S. Kudeyarov, D. S. Kryuchkov, K. Yu. Khabarova, N. N. Kolachevsky 424–428
Effect of trapped-ion heating on generalised Ramsey methods for suppressing frequency shifts caused by a probe field in atomic clocks
S. N. Kuznetsov, A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin, N. Huntemann, C. Sanner, C. Tamm, E. Peik 429–432
Downward the temperature scale
V. A. Vinogradov, K. A. Karpov, S. V. Savelyeva, A. V. Turlapov 433–435
Thermodynamically equilibrium quantum vortices in superfluid liquids
S. K. Nemirovskii 436–438
Quantum geometric phase under pre- and post-selection
T. S. Yakovleva, A. M. Rostom, V. A. Tomilin, L. V. Il’ichev 439–442
Investigation of the possibility of ultra-deep laser cooling using a quadrupole transition
A. A. Kirpichnikova, O. N. Prudnikov, D. Wilkowski 443–448
Scheme of a hydrogen-molecule quantum simulator based on two ultracold rubidium atoms
I. N. Ashkarin, I. I. Beterov, D. B. Tret’yakov, V. M. Èntin, E. A. Yakshina, I. I. Ryabtsev 449–454
Effect of dipole blockade on the laser excitation spectra of mesoscopic ensembles of cold Rydberg atoms
I. I. Ryabtsev, I. I. Beterov, D. B. Tret’yakov, E. A. Yakshina, V. M. Èntin 455–463
Interatomic interactions and thermally induced shifts and broadenings of energy levels of atoms in circular Rydberg states
A. A. Kamenski, V. D. Ovsyannikov, I. L. Glukhov 464–472
Conversion of nuclear spin isomers of water molecules under ultracold conditions of space
P. L. Chapovskii 473–478
Formation of spectra of saturated-absorption resonances on closed transitions in the spectroscopy of unidirectional waves
È. G. Saprykin, A. A. Chernenko 479–487
Lasers
Pulsed laser module based on a high-power semiconductor laser for the spectral range 1500–1600 nm
Yu. K. Bobretsova, D. A. Veselov, N. V. Voronkova, S. O. Slipchenko, V. A. Strelets, M. V. Bogdanovich, P. V. Shpak, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, N. A. Pikhtin 488–492
Tunable laser based on a semiconductor optical amplifier of red spectral region
E. V. Andreeva, A. S. Anikeev, S. N. Il’chenko, A. A. Lobintsov, A. Yu. Chamorovskiy, V. R. Shidlovskiĭ, M. V. Shramenko, S. D. Yakubovich 493–496
Simulation of gain anisotropy induced by linearly polarised pump radiation in a bipolar Nd : YAG laser
N. D. Milovskii, P. A. Khandokhin 497–504
Quantum dots
System of ideal quantum dots with Coulomb interaction
A. M. Mandel, V. B. Oshurko, S. M. Pershin 505–511
Terahertz radiation
Modelling of output mirrors based on circular gradient structures for THz lasers
M. I. Dzyubenko, V. A. Maslov, E. N. Odarenko, V. P. Radionov 512–513
Fibre optics
Modelling of polarised optical frequency domain reflectometry of axially twisted anisotropic optical fibres
F. L. Barkov, Yu. A. Konstantinov, S. D. Bochkova, A. S. Smirnov, V. V. Burdin, A. I. Krivosheev, E. A. Nosova, O. Yu. Smetannikov 514–517
Personalia
On the Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Ivan Aleksandrovich Shcherbakov
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