Lasers
Mechanism of singlet oxygen deactivation in an electric discharge oxygen – iodine laser
V. N. Azyazov, P. A. Mikheev, A. A. Pershin, A. P. Torbin, M. C. Heaven 1083–1084
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Plasma channels during filamentation of a femtosecond laser pulse with wavefront astigmatism in air
A. A. Dergachev, A. A. Ionin, V. P. Kandidov, D. V. Mokrousova, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn, E. S. Sunchugasheva, S. A. Shlenov, A. P. Shustikova 1085–1090
Numerical simulation of microwave amplification in a plasma channel produced in a gas via multiphoton ionisation by a femtosecond laser pulse
A. V. Bogatskaya, E. A. Volkova, A. M. Popov 1091–1098
Propagation and absorption of high-intensity femtosecond laser radiation in diamond
V. V. Kononenko, V. I. Konov, V. M. Gololobov, E. V. Zavedeev 1099–1103
Effect of the laser spot shape on spatial distribution of the ion bunch accelerated in a superstrong field
V. M. Komarov, A. V. Charukhchev, A. A. Andreev, K. Yu. Platonov 1104–1108
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Raman scattering of a photon with frequency doubling by a channelled positron
N. P. Kalashnikov, O. N. Krokhin 1109–1111
Metamaterials
Focusing of dipole radiation by a negative index chiral layer. 2. A thin layer as compared with the wavelength
D. V. Guzatov, V. V. Klimov 1112–1118
Modulation instability in a zigzag array of nonlinear waveguides with alternating positive and negative refractive indices
A. A. Dovgiy 1119–1128
Fibre optics
Charge-transfer state excitation as the main mechanism of the photodarkening process in ytterbium-doped aluminosilicate fibres
K. K. Bobkov, A. A. Rybaltovsky, V. V. Vel’miskin, M. E. Likhachev, M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov, A. A. Umnikov, A. N. Gur’yanov, N. N. Vechkanov, I. A. Shestakova 1129–1135
Liquid crystal devices
Speckle noise suppression using a helix-free ferroelectric liquid crystal cell
A. L. Andreev, T. B. Andreeva, I. N. Kompanets, N. V. Zalyapin 1136–1140
Quantum computer
Scalable optical quantum computer
E. A. Manykin, E. V. Mel’nichenko 1141–1144
Laser Gyroscopes
On the possibility of using the phase characteristic of a ring interferometer in microoptical gyroscopes
V. Yu. Venediktov, Yu. V. Filatov, E. V. Shalymov 1145–1150
Super-large optical gyroscopes for applications in geodesy and seismology: state-of-the-art and development prospects
A. Velikoseltsev, D. P. Luk’yanov, V. I. Vinogradov, K. U. Schreiber 1151–1156
Optical traps
Formation of contour optical traps using a four-channel liquid crystal focusing device
A. V. Korobtsov, S. P. Kotova, N. N. Losevskii, A. M. Maiorova, S. A. Samagin 1157–1164
Optical coherence tomography
Monitoring of permeability of different analytes in human normal and cancerous bladder tissues in vitro using optical coherence tomography
Bingsong Lei, Xiaoyuan Deng, Huadzhan Wei, Guoyong Wu, Zhui Guo, Hontsin Yang, Yonghong He, Shusen Xie 1165–1169
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Comparison of an electro-optical system and photo-conducting antenna employed as detectors of pulsed terahertz radiation by means of a new method for measuring spectral width
Ya. V. Grachev, M. O. Osipova, V. G. Bespalov 1170–1172
Correlation of the ionisation response at selected points of IC sensitive regions with SEE sensitivity parameters under pulsed laser irradiation
A. V. Gordienko, O. B. Mavritskii, A. N. Egorov, A. A. Pechenkin, D. V. Savchenkov 1173–1178