Letters
Polycrystalline diamond film UV detectors for excimer lasers
V. G. Ral’chenko, A. V. Savel’ev, V. I. Konov, G. Mazzeo, F. Spaziani, G. Conte, V. I. Polyakov 487–488
Review
Self-organisation of ordered ensembles of nanoparticles upon laser-controlled deposition of atoms
V. I. Emel’yanov 489–507
Lasers
New possibilities of the Iskra-5 facility
V. I. Annenkov, V. G. Bezuglov, A. V. Bessarab, Yu. D. Bogunenko, G. A. Bondarenko, I. V. Galakhov, S. G. Garanin, N. V. Zhidkov, S. V. Kalipanov, N. A. Kalmykov, V. P. Kovalenko, S. G. Lapin, S. L. Logutenko, V. M. Murugov, V. A. Osin, V. I. Pankratov, M. Yu. Romashov, A. V. Ryadov, V. A. Starodubtsev, R. R. Sungatullin, V. S. Faizullin, V. A. Khrustalev, N. M. Khudikov, V. S. Chebotar 508–510
X-ray lasing upon two-pulse irradiation of targets on the picosecond SOKOL-P facility
A. V. Andriyash, D. A. Vikhlyaev, D. S. Gavrilov, D. A. Dmitrov, A. L. Zapysov, A. G. Kakshin, E. A. Loboda, V. A. Lykov, È. P. Magda, V. Yu. Politov, A. V. Potapov, V. A. Pronin, G. N. Rykovanov, V. N. Sukhanov, A. S. Tishchenko, A. A. Ugodenko, O. V. Chefonov 511–514
Lasing properties of sodium–gadolinium tungstate NaGd(WO4)2 crystals doped with Tm3+ ions
E. V. Zharikov, D. A. Lis, A. V. Popov, K. A. Subbotin, S. N. Ushakov, A. V. Shestakov, I. M. Razdobreev 515–516
Study of unstable-resonator diode laser bars
G. T. Mikayelyan 517–519
Two-frequency coupled-cavity vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
A. S. Logginov, A. G. Rzhanov, D. V. Skorov 520–526
Superluminescent InAs/AlGaAs/GaAs quantum dot heterostructure diodes emitting in the 1100—1230-nm spectral range
E. V. Andreeva, A. E. Zhukov, V. V. Prokhorov, V. M. Ustinov, S. D. Yakubovich 527–531
Polaritons
High-temperature Bose–Einstein condensation of polaritons upon intracavity laser pumping of matter
V. A. Averchenko, A. P. Alodjants, S. M. Arakelyan, S. N. Bagayev, E. A. Vinogradov, V. S. Egorov, A. I. Stolyarov, I. A. Chekhonin 532–538
Solitons
Effect of the local field on the soliton generation mechanism of passively mode-locked ultrashort laser pulses
R. A. Vlasov, A. M. Lemeza, S. Yu. Mikhnevich 539–548
Laser plasma
Optimisation of a laser-plasma soft X-ray source excited in a pulsed xenon jet
V. E. Levashov, K. N. Mednikov, A. S. Pirozhkov, E. N. Ragozin 549–552
Interaction of laser plasmas upon optical breakdown in the normal atmosphere
O. A. Bukin, A. A. Il’in, Yu. N. Kulchin, I. G. Nagornyi, A. N. Pavlov, A. V. Bulanov 553–556
Fibreoptic data communication
Superdense wavelength-division multiplexing in high-bit-rate multichannel fibreoptic communication links
E. G. Shapiro, M. P. Fedoruk, M. V. Zakharyuta 557–561
Laser biology
Laser spectroscopy technique for estimating the efficiency of photosensitisers in biological media
A. V. Ryabova, A. A. Stratonnikov, V. B. Loshchenov 562–568
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
On the possibility of studying the temporal evolution of a surface relief directly during exposure to high-power radiation
D. V. Abramov, S. M. Arakelyan, A. F. Galkin, I. I. Klimovskii, A. O. Kucherik, V. G. Prokoshev 569–575
Study of emission of a volume nanosecond discharge plasma in xenon, krypton and argon at high pressures
E. Kh. Baksht, M. I. Lomaev, D. V. Rybka, V. F. Tarasenko 576–580