Review
Diode-side-pumped laser heads for solid-state lasers
S. G. Grechin, P. P. Nikolaev 1–17
Lasers
High-power single-mode laser diodes based on carbon-doped quantum-well InGaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures
E. I. Davydova, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, A. A. Padalitsa, A. V. Petrovskii, A. V. Sukharev, M. B. Uspenskiy, V. A. Shishkin 18–20
Pulsed bismuth fibre laser with the intracavity-compensated group velocity dispersion
A. A. Krylov, P. G. Kryukov, E. M. Dianov, O. G. Okhotnikov, M. Guina 21–24
Pulsed generation in a combined-diode-pumped Nd3+:Ca3Ga2Ge3O12 laser with a small jitter of the pulse repetition rate
M. I. Belovolov, A. F. Shatalov 25–30
Control of laser radiation parameters
Study of diffraction-coupled lasing in a set of lasers with self-pumped phase-conjugate mirrors on gain gratings in the case of short-range coupling
T. T. Basiev, A. V. Gavrilov, V. V. Osiko, S. N. Smetanin, A. V. Fedin 31–35
Instability of stationary lasing and self-starting mode locking in external-cavity semiconductor lasers
I. V. Smetanin, P. P. Vasil’ev 36–42
Generation of Stark spectral components in Nd:YAP and Nd:YAG lasers by using volume Bragg gratings
N. S. Vorob’ev, L. B. Glebov, V. I. Smirnov, I. V. Chapurin 43–45
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Dynamics of photoinduced dichroism and birefringence in optically thick azopolymers
Yu. V. Ponomarev, S. A. Ivanov, Yu. A. Rumyantsev, A. A. Gromchenko 46–52
Nonlinear stochastic effects during the action of noise on relaxation oscillations in a ring solid-state laser
I. I. Zolotoverkh, N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev, V. V. Firsov, S. N. Chekina 53–58
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Generation of a bleaching wave in an ST-50-1 glass ceramics induced by a Nd:YAG laser
V. P. Veiko, B. Yu. Novikov, E. A. Shakhno, E. B. Yakovlev 59–62
Nonlinear increase in the interaction efficiency of a second pulse with a target upon excitation of a plasma by a train of pulses from a Nd:YAG laser
S. M. Pershin 63–67
Superstrong fields
On the motion of a charged particle in a plane monochromatic electromagnetic wave
S. N. Andreev, V. P. Makarov, A. A. Rukhadze 68–72
Elements of laser setups
Characteristics of Cornu depolarisers made from quartz and paratellurite optically active crystals
V. A. Bagan, B. L. Davydov, I. È. Samartsev 73–78
Highly efficient passive Q switches for a neodymium laser based on thiopyrylotricarbocyanine dyes
V. I. Bezrodnyi, N. A. Derevyanko, A. A. Ishchenko, A. V. Kropachev 79–83
Parameters of an electric-discharge generator of iodine atoms for a chemical oxygen—iodine laser
V. N. Azyazov, M. V. Vorob’ev, A. I. Voronov, N. V. Kupryaev, P. A. Mikheev, N. I. Ufimtsev 84–88
Nanostructures
Surface nanotexturing of tantalum by laser ablation in water
E. V. Barmina, M. Barberoglou, V. Zorba, A. V. Simakin, È. Stratakis, C. Fotakis, G. A. Shafeev 89–93
Optical waveguides and fibres
Surface waves on the boundary of photonic crystals and tunnelling coupling between two photonic crystals via these waves
B. A. Usievich, V. V. Svetikov, J. Kh. Nurligareev, V. A. Sychugov 94–97
Optimisation of the proton-exchange technology for fabricating channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystals
I. V. Il’ichev, A. S. Kozlov, P. V. Gaenko, A. V. Shamray 98–104
Calculation of the frequency band of a Bragg waveguide
D. V. Prokopovich 105–109
Personalia
Mitrofan Fedorovich Stel’makh (1918—1993)
O. N. Krokhin, A. A. Kazakov, I. B. Kovsh, G. M. Zverev, V. G. Dmitriev, I. A. Shcherbakov, A. V. Priezzhev, A. S. Semenov 110