Interaction of extreme light fields with matter
Effect of electron-positron plasma production on the generation of a magnetic field in laser-plasma interactions
A. S. Samsonov, E. N. Nerush, I. Yu. Kostyukov 861–865
Pulsed laser-plasma gamma radiation source for radiography
V. A. Flegentov, K. V. Safronov, S. A. Gorokhov, A. S. Tishchenko, S. F. Kovaleva, A. V. Potapov, A. V. Pavlenko 866–872
Femtosecond laser system based on thin rod active Yb : YAG elements with high average output power and pulse energy
J. H. Yang, J. W. Kim, E. G. Sall’, B. Lee, B. Jeong, S. Park, C. Kim, V. E. Yashin, G. H. Kim 873–877
Application of liquid low-temperature cooling in a multi-disk ytterbium laser head under conditions of multi-joule pumping at a high pulse repetition rate
M. R. Volkov, I. B. Mukhin 878–885
Picosecond hybrid laser based on semiconductor laser, fibre and Nd : YVO4 amplifiers. Investigation of effects limiting the peak power
I. A. Gorbunov, O. V. Kulagin 886–893
Triple-clad optical fibre for pulse stretching
K. K. Bobkov, A. E. Levchenko, M. Yu. Salganskii, D. V. Ganin, A. D. Lyashedko, D. V. Khudyakov, M. E. Likhachev 894–900
Computational and theoretical analysis of experiments on irradiation of 186mRe isomer preparations on the Iskra-5 laser facility
D. E. Larin 901–904
Lasers
InGaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs semiconductor lasers (λ = 900–920 nm) with broadened asymmetric waveguides and improved current–voltage characteristics
N. A. Volkov, T. A. Bagaev, D. R. Sabitov, A. Yu. Andreev, I. V. Yarotskaya, A. A. Padalitsa, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, K. V. Bakhvalov, D. A. Veselov, A. V. Lyutetskiy, N. A. Rudova, V. A. Strelets, S. O. Slipchenko, N. A. Pikhtin 905–908
High-power AlGaInAs/InP semiconductor lasers with an ultra-narrow waveguide emitting in the spectral range 1.9–2.0 μm
V. N. Svetogorov, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, N. A. Volkov, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Padalitsa, A. A. Marmalyuk, K. V. Bakhvalov, D. A. Veselov, A. V. Lyutetskiy, V. A. Strelets, S. O. Slipchenko, N. A. Pikhtin 909–911
High-power pulsed hybrid semiconductor lasers emitting in the wavelength range 900–920 nm
T. A. Bagaev, N. V. Gul’tikov, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. V. Kurnyavko, V. V. Krichevskii, A. M. Morozyuk, V. P. Konyaev, V. A. Simakov, S. O. Slipchenko, A. A. Podoskin, N. A. Pikhtin, A. E. Kazakova, D. N. Romanovich, V. A. Kryuchkov 912–914
Active media
Possibility of inversionless amplification and generation of radiation by a two-level system in the ‘red’ wing of its spectral line under resonant diode pumping
A. I. Parkhomenko, A.M. Shalagin 915–919
Nanostructures
Splitting of the energy spectrum of an indirect exciton upon electron tunnelling between nanoparticles
V. P. Dzyuba, A. V. Amosov, Yu. N. Kulchin 920–924
Quantum optics
Recursive method for solving the inverse problem of photocount statistics
P. P. Gostev, S. A. Magnitskiy, A. S. Chirkin 925–927
Quantum cryptography
Vulnerabilities of quantum cryptography on geometrically uniform coherent states
D. A. Kronberg 928–937
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Optical detection of an ensemble of C centres in diamond and their coherent control by an ensemble of NV centres
O. R. Rubinas, V. V. Soshenko, S. V. Bolshedvorskii, I. S. Cojocaru, A. I. Zeleneev, V. V. Vorobyov, V. N. Sorokin, V. G. Vins, A. N. Smolyaninov, A. V. Akimov 938–946
Simulation of interaction of polarised laser light with plant leaves
Yu. N. Kulchin, A. A. Sergeev, Yu. A. Zinin, D. O. Gol’tsova, S. O. Kozhanov, E. P. Subbotin 947–952
Thermo-optic parameters of potassium titanyl phosphate crystals
S. G. Grechin, P. Ya. Druzhinin, D. G. Kochiev 953–957
Personalia
On the Eightieth Birthday of Sergei Nikolaevich Bagayev
A. M. Sergeev, Yu. Yu. Balega, A. F. Andreev, S. G. Garanin, A. G. Zabrodskii, L. M. Zelenyi, O. N. Krokhin, Yu. N. Kulchin, V. I. Konov, A. G. Litvak, G. A. Mesyats, V. A. Rubakov, R. A. Suris, V. Yu. Khomich, I. A. Shcherbakov, A.M. Shalagin, S. V. Garnov, N. N. Kolachevsky, S. A. Babin, V. V. Kocharovskii 958