Review
IR differential-absorption lidars for ecological monitoring of the environment
B. I. Vasil’ev, O. M. Mannoun 801–820
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Conical emission of a femtosecond laser pulse focused by an axicon into a K 108 glass
V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, O. G. Kosareva, A. V. Grigor’evskii, V. P. Kandidov 821–824
Features of the femtosecond pulse propagation in air
A. D. Balashov, A. Kh. Pergament 825–834
Coherent propagation of a short polarised radiation pulse in a one-dimensional resonance Bragg grating
A. I. Maimistov, V. V. Polikarpov 835–841
Lasers
Scenario of the experiment on gamma-ray amplificationupon stimulated transitions in isomeric nucleiin a Bose—Einstein condensate
L. A. Rivlin 842–848
HCN laser with an adaptive output mirror
Yu. E. Kamenev, S. A. Masalov, A. A. Filimonova 849–852
Self-oscillation perturbations in a fast-flow unstable resonator laser
A. I. Odintsov, N. E. Sarkarov, A. I. Fedoseev 853–859
Laser beams and resonators
Formation of an inhomogeneously polarised light beam at the sum frequency by two collinear elliptically polarised Gaussian beams focused into a chiral medium
S. N. Volkov, V. A. Makarov, I. A. Perezhogin 860–866
Unstable resonators of high-power chemical oxygen–iodine lasers
A. V. Savin, S. Yu. Strakhov, S. L. Druzhinin 867–873
Laser biology
Peculiarities of studying an isolated neuron by the method of laser interference microscopy
A. I. Yusipovich, S. M. Novikov, T. A. Kazakova, L. A. Erokhova, N. A. Brazhe, G. L. Lazarev, G. V. Maksimov 874–878
Fibreoptic communication
Optimisation of a high-bit-rate optical communication link with a nonideal quasi-rectangular filter
O. V. Belai, D. A. Shapiro, E. G. Shapiro 879–882
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Reflection of an electromagnetic pulse from a subcritical waveguide taper and from a supercritical-density plasma in a waveguide
A. A. Rukhadze, V. P. Tarakanov 883–888
Efficiency of passage of highly vibrationally excited CF3I molecules in a beam through a cooled converging hollow truncated cone
G. N. Makarov, A. N. Petin 889–894