Lasers
Pulsed Fe2+:ZnS laser continuously tunable in the wavelength range of 3.49 — 4.65 μm
V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, V. V. Mislavskii, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, Ya. K. Skasyrsky, M. P. Frolov 1–3
Electroluminescence of ZnO-based semiconductor heterostructures
O. A. Novodvorskii, A. A. Lotin, V. Ya. Panchenko, L. S. Parshina, E. V. Khaidukov, D. A. Zuev, O. D. Khramova 4–7
Optimal repetition rates of excitation pulses in a Tm-vapour laser
V. A. Gerasimov, V. V. Gerasimov, A. V. Pavlinskii 8–12
Quasi-periodic regime of self-modulation oscillations with a periodic low-frequency envelope in a ring chip laser
T. V. Aulova, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, S. N. Chekina 13–16
Effect of argon on the performance of a fast-axial flow CO2 laser
S. Jelvani, H. Amiri, H. Pazokian, M. Montazerolghaem, M. Mollabashi, S. A. Naeimi, D. Esmaeilpour 17–19
Stokes parameters of the radiation of transverse-single-mode InGaAs/AlGaAs lasers with a quantum-well active region
N. V. D’yachkov, A. P. Bogatov 20–25
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Determining the parameters of the laser radiation intensity limiter based on a time-dependent equation of radiative transfer in a nonlinear medium
S. A. Tereshchenko, V. M. Podgaetsky 26–29
Autowaves in two-wave mixing in photorefractive media
P. A. Prudkovskii 30–33
High-intensity super-radiance pulses generated by an active medium placed in a two-dimensional Bragg structure
V. R. Baryshev, N. S. Ginzburg 34–37
Laser plasma
Density jumps in the plasma of a nanosecond laser-induced spark and their dynamics
A. A. Malyutin, V. A. Podvyaznikov, V. K. Chevokin 38–42
Laser beams
Analytical description of a Gaussian beam in a ring resonator with a nonplanar axial contour and an odd number of mirrors
A. B. Plachenov, A. M. Radin 43–54
Modified Frantz–Nodvik equation for calculating the gain of divergent laser beams
A. A. Malyutin 55–57
Quantum electronic devices
Tunable liquid-crystal focusing device. 1. Theory
S. P. Kotova, V. V. Patlan’, S. A. Samagin 58–64
Tunable liquid-crystal focusing device. 2. Experiment
S. P. Kotova, V. V. Patlan’, S. A. Samagin 65–70
Nonorthogonally magnetised permanent-magnet Faraday isolators
E. A. Mironov, A. V. Voitovich, O. V. Palashov 71–74
Aperiodic normal-incidence antimony-based multilayer mirrors in the 8 — 13-nm spectral range
E. A. Vishnyakov, M. S. Luginin, A. S. Pirozhkov, E. N. Ragozin, S. A. Startsev 75–80
Laser applications
Measurement of formaldehyde H2CO concentration in air using diode vertical-cavity lasers
V. Ya. Zaslavskii, A. I. Nadezhdinskii, Ya. Ya. Ponurovskii, S. M. Chernin 81–85
Measurement of micro- and nanovibrations and displacements using semiconductor laser autodynes
D. A. Usanov, An. V. Skripal 86–94