Lasers
High-power, highly stable KrF laser with a 4-kHz pulse repetition rate
V. M. Borisov, A. V. El’tsov, O. B. Khristoforov 691–696
Semiconductor lasers with a continuous tuning range above 100 nm in the nearest IR spectral region
Yu. O. Kostin, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Lobintsov, A. A. Marmalyuk, A. Yu. Chamorovsky, M. V. Shramenko, S. D. Yakubovich 697–700
A dual-end-pumped Ho:YAG laser with a high energy output
X. M. Duan, Zh. Cui, L. J. Li, T. Y. Dai, K. K. Yu, B. Q. Yao 701–703
Optically pumped rare-gas lasers
P. A. Mikheyev 704–708
Single-frequency, injection-seeded Er:YAG laser based on a bow-tie ring slave resonator
B. Q. Yao, Y. Deng, T. Y. Dai, X. M. Duan, Y. L. Ju, Y. Z. Wang 709–712
Effect of the doped fibre length on soliton pulses of a bidirectional mode-locked fibre laser
H. Ahmad, N. A. Alwi Kutty, M. Z. Zulkifli, S. W. Harun 713–716
Planar fluoride waveguides for amplifiers and lasers
T. E. Grishutkina, M. E. Doroshenko, A. Ya. Karasik, V. A. Konyushkin, D. V. Konyushkin, A. N. Nakladov, V. V. Osiko, V. B. Tsvetkov 717–719
Active media
Kinetics of an oxygen-iodine active medium with iodine atoms optically pumped on the 2P1/2–2P3/2 transition
M. V. Zagidullin, M. S. Malyshev, V. N. Azyazov 720–724
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Femtosecond-laser fabrication of cyclic structures in the bulk of transparent dielectrics
S. K. Vartapetov, D. V. Ganin, K. E. Lapshin, A. Z. Obidin 725–730
Laser ablation of carbon targets placed in a liquid
A. A. Antipov, S. M. Arakelyan, S. V. Garnov, S. V. Kutrovskaya, A. O. Kucherik, D. S. Nogtev, A. V. Osipov 731–735
Adaptive optics
Dependence of the compensation error on the error of a sensor and corrector in an adaptive optics phase-conjugating system
V. V. Kiyko, V. I. Kislov, E. N. Ofitserov 736–742
Scattering of light
‘Photonic jets’ from dielectric microaxicons
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, E. K. Panina 743–747
Statistical properties of intensity of partially polarised semiconductor laser light backscattered by a single-mode optical fibre
A. E. Alekseev, B. G. Gorshkov, V. T. Potapov 748–753
Interferometry
Experimental study of the mutual influence of fibre Faraday elements in a spun-fibre interferometer
V. P. Gubin, S. K. Morshnev, Ya. V. Przhiyalkovsky, N. I. Starostin, A. I. Sazonov 754–758
Comparison of the results of refractometric measurements in the process of diffusion, obtained by means of the backgroundoriented schlieren method and the holographic interferometry method
A. V. Kraiskii, T. V. Mironova 759–764
Laser beams
A wave model of refraction of laser beams with a discrete change in intensity in their cross section and their application for diagnostics of extended nonstationary phase objects
I. L. Raskovskaya 765–770
Holographic memory
Projection multiplex recording of computer-synthesised one-dimensional Fourier holograms for holographic memory systems: mathematical and experimental modelling
A. Yu. Betin, V. I. Bobrinev, N. M. Verenikina, S. S. Donchenko, N. N. Evtikhiev, E. Yu. Zlokazov, S. B. Odinokov, S. N. Starikov, R. S. Starikov 771–775
Laser applications in medicine
A simplified algorithm for measuring erythrocyte deformability dispersion by laser ektacytometry
S. Yu. Nikitin, Yu. S. Yurchuk 776–780
Impact of holmium fibre laser radiation (λ=2.1 μm) on the spinal cord dura mater and adipose tissue
S. A. Filatova, V. A. Kamynin, A. V. Ryabova, V. B. Loshchenov, P. V. Zelenkov, I. O. Zolotovskii, V. B. Tsvetkov, A. S. Kurkov 781–784