2021, vol 51, number 2

Laser biophotonics

Analytical model of fluorescence intensity for the estimation of fluorophore localisation in biotissue with dual-wavelength fluorescence imaging
A. V. Khilov, E. A. Sergeeva, D. A. Kurakina, I. V. Turchin, M. Yu. Kirillin 95–103

Prospects for multimodal imaging of biological tissues using fluorescence imaging
D. K. Tuchina, I. G. Meerovich, O. A. Sindeeva, V. V. Zherdeva, N. I. Kazachkina, I. D. Solov’ev, A. P. Savitsky, A. A. Bogdanov jr., V. V. Tuchin 104–117

Polyacrylamide-based phantoms of human skin for hyperspectral fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy
V. V. Shupletsov, E. A. Zherebtsov, V. V. Dremin, A. P. Popov, A. V. Bykov, E. V. Potapova, A. V. Dunaev, I. V. Meglinski 118–123

Lasers

Experimental technique for studying optical absorption in waveguide layers of semiconductor laser heterostructures
Yu. K. Bobretsova, D. A. Veselov, A. A. Podoskin, N. V. Voronkova, S. O. Slipchenko, M. A. Ladugin, T. A. Bagaev, A. A. Marmalyuk, N. A. Pikhtin 124–128

Light–current characteristics of high-power pulsed semiconductor lasers (1060 nm) operating at increased (up to 90 °C) temperatures
P. S. Gavrina, A. A. Podoskin, E. V. Fomin, D. A. Veselov, V. V. Shamakhov, S. O. Slipchenko, N. A. Pikhtin, P. S. Kop’ev 129–132

Semiconductor AlGaInAs/InP lasers (λ = 1450 – 1500 nm) with a strongly asymmetric waveguide
N. A. Volkov, A. Yu. Andreev, I. V. Yarotskaya, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, V. N. Svetogorov, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Padalitsa, A. A. Marmalyuk, S. O. Slipchenko, A. V. Lyutetskiy, D. A. Veselov, N. A. Pikhtin 133–136

Possibility of using tetrafluorohydrazine as an oxidiser in a supersonic cw chemical HF laser
I. A. Fedorov 137–141

Control of laser radiation parameters

Pulse energy limitation of high-power nanosecond lasers due to plasma production in spatial filters
A. A. Kuzmin, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 142–148

Thermal optical properties, Q-switching and frequency tuning of an Nd : LGGG laser based on the 4F3/2 → 4I13/2 transition of a neodymium ion
Shang Gao, Wei Wang 149–152

Time compression of frequency-modulated pulses in fibres with in-fibre refractive index gratings
A. S. Abramov, I. O. Zolotovskii, V. A. Kamynin, V. A. Lapin 153–157

Generation of THz radiation

THz laser generation on a hybrid surface plasmon in a HgCdTe-based structure
A. A. Dubinov, V. Ya. Aleshkin, V. I. Gavrilenko, V. V. Rumyantsev, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, V. V. Utochkin, S. V. Morozov 158–163

Simulation on the nonuniform electrical pumping efficiency of THz quantum-cascade lasers
A. K. Dolgov, D. V. Ushakov, A. A. Afonenko, I. N. Dyuzhikov, I. A. Glinskiy, D. S. Ponomarev, R. A. Khabibullin 164–168

Interaction of laser radiation with matter

Comparative study of the dynamics of laser breakdown in water and hexane using interference microscopy
V. V. Kononenko, V. M. Gololobov, T. V. Kononenko, E. A. Goncharov, V. I. Konov 169–174

Fibre-optic sensors

Effect of strong local stretching of sensing fibre on the operation of a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer
D. M. Bengalskii, D. R. Kharasov, È. A. Fomiryakov, S. P. Nikitin, O. E. Nanii, V. N. Treshchikov 175–183

Diffractive optics

Limiting spectral and angular characteristics of sawtooth dual-relief two-layer diffraction microstructures
G. I. Greisukh, E. G. Ezhov, O. A. Zakharov, V. A. Danilov, B. A. Usievich 184–188