Letters
Self-mode-locking in erbium-doped fibre lasers with saturable polymer film absorbers containing single-wall carbon nanotubes synthesised by the arc discharge method
A. V. Tausenev, E. D. Obraztsova, A. S. Lobach, A. I. Chernov, V. I. Konov, A. V. Konyashchenko, P. G. Kryukov, E. M. Dianov 205–208
Invited paper
Optical properties of an atom in the presence of a two-nanosphere cluster
V. V. Климов, D. V. Guzatov 209–230
Active media
Multifrequency laser probing of CO-containing gas mixtures excited in a pulsed discharge
A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, A. Yu. Kozlov, A. A. Kotkov, O. A. Rulev, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn 231–236
Numerical modelling of kinetic processes in the plasma of a supersonic electric-discharge CO laser excited by a microwave discharge
I. V. Anakhova, Yu. N. Vlasov, V. N. Rozhdestvin, D. V. Shlapatskii, D. A. Yagodnikov 237–242
On the temperature model of CO2 lasers
V. V. Nevdakh, M. Ganjali, K. I. Arshinov 243–247
Lasers
Numerical simulation of a Q-switched cw chemical HF laser
V. I. Kuprenyuk, Yu. P. Maksimov, V. I. Mashendzhinov, A. Yu. Rodionov, M. A. Rotinyan, I. A. Fedorov 248–254
Oscillation dynamics of a phase-locked three-channel holographic Nd:YAG laser system
T. T. Basiev, A. V. Gavrilov, V. V. Osiko, S. N. Smetanin, A. V. Fedin 255–258
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Peculiarities of increasing the third harmonic generation efficiency upon noncollinear excitation of a surface plasmon on a metal diffraction grating
A. V. Andreev, A. A. Korneev, I. R. Prudnikov 259–265
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and multicomponent cnoidal waves in parametric frequency conversion
V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 266–272
Superstrong fields
Acceleration of electrons by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses
S. G. Bochkarev, V. Yu. Bychenkov 273–284
Femtosecond pulsed laser deposition of thin films upon direct and inverse transfer of ablated particles of foam graphite in the nitrogen atmosphere
V. M. Gordienko, V. A. Dyakov, Yu. Ya. Kuzyakov, I. A. Makarov, E. V. Rakov, M. A. Timofeev 285–289
Resonators. Modes
Analytic method for the construction of the fundamental mode of a resonator in the form of a Gaussian beam with complex astigmatism
A. B. Plachenov, V. N. Kudashov, A. M. Radin 290–298
Modes of a plano — spherical laser resonator with the Gaussian gain distribution of the active medium
A. A. Malyutin 299–306
Optical systems
Calculation of the illuminance distribution in the focal spot of a focusing system taking into account aberrations in this system and divergence of a focused laser beam
A. V. Gitin 307–312