Letters
Bi-doped fibre lasers operating in the range 1470 — 1550 nm
E. M. Dianov, S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, O. I. Medvedkov, A. N. Gur’yanov, I. A. Bufetov 299–301
Active media
Study of a thermal lens in thin laser-ceramics discs
I. L. Snetkov, A. A. Soloviev, E. A. Khazanov 302–308
Lasers
Efficient diode-side-pumped Nd:YVO4 slab laser in different generation regimes
A. P. Zinov’ev, O. L. Antipov, A. A. Novikov 309–312
A XeCl laser with a controlled radiation pulse shape
A. I. Fedorov 313–316
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Nonlinear pulse compression in inhomogeneous photonic crystals upon backward second harmonic generation
U. K. Sapaev, I. A. Kulagin, T. B. Usmanov 317–320
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Effects of laser radiation on immobile and fast-moving targets
V. V. Osipov, V. V. Lisenkov, V. A. Shitov, K. E. Luk’yashin 321–327
Optical spectroscopy of laser plasma in a deep crater
T. V. Kononenko, D. Walter, V. I. Konov, F. Dausinger 328–332
Solidification structures on carbon materials surface-melted by repetitive laser pulses
D. V. Abramov, S. M. Arakelyan, S. V. Kutrovskaya, A. O. Kucherik, V. G. Prokoshev 333–336
Nanostructures
3D nanotube-based composites produced by laser irradiation
S. A. Ageeva, I. I. Bobrinetskii, V. I. Konov, V. K. Nevolin, V. M. Podgaetsky, O. V. Ponomareva, V. V. Savranskii, S. V. Selishchev, M. M. Simunin 337–341
Optical limiting and bleaching effects in a suspension of onion-like carbon
G. M. Mikheev, V. L. Kuznetsov, D. L. Bulatov, T. N. Mogileva, S. I. Moseenkov, A. V. Ishchenko 342–346
Light modulation
Wide-aperture diffraction of unpolarised radiation in a system of two acousto-optic filters
L. N. Magdich, K. B. Yushkov, V. B. Voloshinov 347–352
Quasi-collinear tunable acousto-optic paratellurite crystal filters for wavelength division multiplexing and optical channel selection
V. Ya. Molchanov, V. B. Voloshinov, O. Yu. Makarov 353–360
Ultrafast optical modulators based on the nonlinear optical response of an electron — hole plasma
M. V. Ermolenko, V. V. Stankevich, O. V. Buganov, S. A. Tikhomirov, S. V. Gaponenko, P. I. Kuznetsov, G. G. Yakushcheva 361–366
Radiation scattering
Determination of the microstructure of gas bubbles in highly purified water by measuring the elements of the laser radiation scattering matrix
N. F. Bunkin, N. V. Suyazov, A. V. Shkirin, P. S. Ignat’ev, K. V. Indukaev 367–381
Laser biology
Visualisation of the oscillation dynamics of cytoplasm in a living cell of Physarum mixomycete plasmodium by the method of optical coherence Doppler tomography
A. V. Bykov, A. V. Priezzhev, J. Lauri, R. A. Myllylä 382–384
Laser technologies
Technologies of perforation of closely spaced micron holes with the help of neodymium—LiF:F2- lasers
T. T. Basiev, A. Ya. Karasik, V. V. Osiko, A. G. Papashvili, D. S. Chunaev, A. V. Gavrilov, M. N. Ershkov, S. N. Smetanin, S. A. Solokhin, A. V. Fedin, V. N. Kolokol’tsev, V. M. Lazorenko, V. I. Tovtin 385–387
Laser spectroscopy
Measurement of the concentration ratio for 13С and 12С isotopes at atmospheric pressure by carbon dioxide absorption of diode laser radiation at ~2 μm
E. S. Mironchuk, I. V. Nikolaev, V. N. Ochkin, S. S. Rodionova, M. V. Spiridonov, S. N. Tskhai 388–391
Obituary
Vladilen Stepanovich Letokhov (10.10.1939 г. — 21.03.2009 г.)
E. A. Vinogradov, O. N. Kompanets, E. A. Ryabov, O. N. Krokhin, R. V. Ambartsumyan, A. Z. Grasyuk, I. G. Zubarev, P. G. Kryukov 392