Letters
Near- to mid-IR refractive index of 28Si, 29Si and 30Si monoisotopic single crystals
V. G. Plotnichenko, V. O. Nazaryants, E. B. Kryukova, V. V. Koltashev, V. O. Sokolov, A. V. Gusev, V. A. Gavva, M. F. Churbanov, E. M. Dianov 753–755
Review
Solitons in nonlinear optics
A. I. Maimistov 756–781
Lasers
Performance of an optical amplifier/modulator based on a diode laser
A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Drakin, N. V. D’yachkov 782–788
Effect of the pump rate and loss perturbations on the lasing dynamics of a Fabry — Perot laser
N. Kumar, V. I. Ledenev 789–793
Active media
Nonequilibrium population of the first vibrational level of O2(1Σ) molecules in O2 — O2(1Δ) — H2O gas flow at the output of chemical singlet-oxygen generator
M. V. Zagidullin 794–799
Kinetics of O2(1Δ) self-quenching in the O2 — O2(1Δ) — H2O gas mixture
M. V. Zagidullin, N. A. Khvatov 800–803
Effects of laser radiation on matter. Laser plasma
Annealing of induced absorption in quartz glasses by ArF laser radiation
P. B. Sergeev, A. P. Sergeev 804–810
Investigation of the foreplasma parameters of a laser-plasma diode
Yu. V. Korobkin, A. I. Lebo, I. G. Lebo 811–816
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Frequency shift of Rayleigh line fine structure components in a water solution of 4-methylpyridine as a function of temperature, concentration, and light scattering angle
N. F. Bunkin, V. S. Gorelik, L. M. Sabirov, D. I. Semenov, Kh. S. Khaidarov 817–821
Angular phase-matching bandwidths in biaxial nonlinear crystals for frequency converters
S. G. Grechin 822–827
Optical fibers, thin-film waveguides
Mid-IR luminescence of Cr2+ : II — VI crystals in chalcogenide glass fibres
R. A. Mironov, È. V. Karaksina, A. O. Zabezhailov, R. M. Shaposhnikov, M. F. Churbanov, E. M. Dianov 828–829
Simulation of guided modes (eigenmodes) and synthesis of a thin-film generalised waveguide Luneburg lens in the zero-order vector approximation
A. A. Egorov, K. P. Lovetskii, A. L. Sevastyanov, L. A. Sevastyanov 830–836
The acousto-optical interaction
Image transformation caused by wide-angle acousto-optic interaction
A. S. Machikhin, V. È. Pozhar 837–841
Fluorescent ultramicroscopy
Fibreoptic fluorescent microscopy in studying biological objects
A. N. Morozov, A. A. Lazutkin, I. V. Turchin, V. A. Kamensky, I. I. Fiks, D. V. Bezryadnov, A. A. Ivanova, D. M. Toptunov, K. V. Anokhin 842–846