Letters
Realisation of a compact methane optical clock
M. A. Gubin, A. N. Kireev, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. G. Kryukov, A. V. Tausenev, D. A. Tyurikov, A. S. Shelkovnikov 613–614
Bi-doped fibre lasers and amplifiers emitting in a spectral region of 1.3 μm
E. M. Dianov, S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Gur’yanov, I. A. Bufetov 615–617
Defect-deformation mechanism of the size effect in the laser-induced formation of microstructures of the brass surface relief in liquid
V. I. Emel’yanov 618–619
Invited paper
Optical properties of Bragg fibres
A. S. Biriukov, D. V. Bogdanovich, D. A. Gaponov, A. D. Pryamikov 620–633
Biophotonics
Fibreoptic methods of cross-polarisation optical coherence tomography for endoscopic studies
V. M. Gelikonov, G. V. Gelikonov 634–640
Equivalent of a cartilage tissue for simulations of laser-induced temperature fields
A. V. Kondyurin, A. P. Sviridov 641–646
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of biological tissues
M. M. Nazarov, A. P. Shkurinov, E. A. Kuleshov, V. V. Tuchin 647–654
Active media, lasers, and amplifiers
Nuclear-pumped laser operating in the master oscillator — amplifier regime
A. A. Pikulev, V. M. Tsvetkov, P. V. Sosnin, A. A. Sinyanskii 655–660
Semiconductor optical amplifiers for the 1000—1100-nm spectral range
A. A. Lobintsov, M. V. Shramenko, S. D. Yakubovich 661–664
Conversion of the luminescence of laser dyes in opal matrices to stimulated emission
O. K. Alimov, T. T. Basiev, Yu. V. Orlovskii, V. V. Osiko, M. I. Samoilovich 665–669
Control of laser radiation parameters
Two-coordinate control of the radiation pattern of a chemical non-chain electric-discharge DF laser by using space — time light modulators
V. N. Alekseev, V. N. Kotylev, V. I. Liber 670–672
Algorithms for the reconstruction of the singular wave front of laser radiation: analysis and improvement of accuracy
V. P. Aksenov, I. V. Izmailov, F. Yu. Kanev, F. A. Starikov 673–677
Coherence
Number of reflecting layers as a dominating factor of the influence of an acoustic grating on the coherence degree of an optical field
V. M. Kotov, G. N. Shkerdin, D. G. Shkerdin, E. V. Kotov 678–680
Spatial coherence of the Stokes component of stimulated Raman scattering excited in a long multimode fibre
M. A. Kitsak, A. I. Kitsak 681–684
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Features of photoinduced dynamic gratings in semiconductors
A. M. Grigor’ev 685–688
Resonators. Modes
Influence of the resonator parameters and spatially nonuniform amplification on the spatial structure of the fundamental mode of stable resonator lasers
M. V. Gorbunkov, P. V. Kostryukov, V. G. Tunkin 689–694
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Study of photodissociation parameters of carboxyhemoglobin
V. V. Kuz’min, V. V. Salmin, A. B. Salmina, A. S. Provorov 695–701
Spectral and energy parameters of multiband barrier-discharge KrBr excilamps
S. M. Avdeev, M. V. Erofeev, V. S. Skakun, È. A. Sosnin, A. I. Suslov, V. F. Tarasenko, D. V. Shutz 702–706