Active media
Gain dynamics in a pulsed laser amplifier on CO – He, CO – N2 and CO – O2 gas mixtures
S. V. Vetoshkin, A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, A. Yu. Kozlov, A. A. Kotkov, O. A. Rulev, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn 111–117
Photonics of laser-excited symmetric cationic polymethine dyes
V. A. Svetlichnyi, T. N. Kopylova, G. V. Maier, I. N. Lapin, N. A. Derevyanko, A. A. Ishchenko 118–123
Electron-beam pumping of excimer media in a multipole magnetic field. 1. Numerical simulation of the energy input
S. V. Arlantsev, K. S. Gochelashvili, O. N. Evdokimova, M. E. Zemskov, G. P. Mkheidze 124–129
Lasers
On the depolarisation of radiation of a transversely diode-laser-array-pumped Yb, Er-doped phosphate glass active element
L. V. Shachkin 130–134
Increase in the power of lasing on atomic and ion transitions in chemical elements
V. M. Klimkin, V. G. Sokovikov 135–139
Control of laser radiation parameters
Influence of a constant magnetic field on non-stationary operation regimes of solid-state ring lasers
N. V. Kravtsov, S. N. Chekina 140–142
Study of the self-phase-locking of a pulsed three-channel holographic Nd:YAG laser by gain gratings
T. T. Basiev, A. V. Gavrilov, S. N. Smetanin, A. V. Fedin, V. V. Osiko 143–146
New stretcher scheme for a parametric amplifier of chirped pulses with frequency conversion
G. I. Freidman, I. V. Yakovlev 147–148
Harmonic modulation of radiation of an external-feedback semiconductor laser
A. G. Sukharev, A. P. Napartovich 149–153
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Self-diffraction of light waves by a local photorefractive grating in a crystal of the symmetry group bar ¯43m in the transverse configuration
R. V. Litvinov 154–157
Study of the second harmonic generation and optical rectification in a cBN crystal
Q. Dou, H. Ma, G. Jia, Zh. Chen, K. Cao, T. Zhang 158–161
Asymmetry of the Stokes and anti-Stokes components of the nonlinear response of high-temperature superconductors in the method of picosecond biharmonic pumping
Yu. V. Bobyrev, V. M. Petnikova, G. A. Royanova, K. V. Rudenko, V. V. Shuvalov 162–166
Resonators. Modes
Eigenfrequencies and Q factor in the geometrical theory of whispering-gallery modes
M. L. Gorodetskii, A. E. Fomin 167–172
Peculiarities of the fundamental mode structure in stable-resonator lasers upon spatially inhomogeneous amplification
M. V. Gorbunkov, P. V. Kostryukov, L. S. Telegin, V. G. Tunkin, D. V. Yakovlev 173–180
Generation of high-order Hermite–Gaussian modes in a flashlamp-pumped neodymium phosphate glass laser and their conversion to Laguerre–Gaussian modes
A. A. Malyutin, V. A. Ilyukhin 181–186
Waveguides
Dynamics of pulses in optically coupled active optical fibres with different parameters
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 187–192
Optical microscopy
Scanning near-field optical microscopy and near-field optical probes: properties, fabrication, and control of parameters
V. F. Dryakhlushin, V. P. Veiko, N. B. Voznesenskii 193–203
Obituary
Sergei Ivanovich Yakovlenko
I. A. Shcherbakov, F. V. Bunkin, E. M. Dianov, V. I. Konov, V. V. Osiko, T. T. Basiev, V. P. Makarov, O. N. Krokhin, I. G. Zubarev, I. B. Kovsh, A. S. Semenov 204