Letters
Diagnostics of ortho and para water isomers with tunable diode lasers
E. V. Stepanov, V. I. Tikhonov, V. A. Milyaev 205–206
Invited paper
Hyperfine structure of the metastable level in hydrogen-like atoms
N. N. Kolachevsky 207–218
Lasers
High-power, high-pressure pulsed CO2 lasers and their applications
G. A. Baranov, A. A. Kuchinsky 219–229
New design of a high-power femtosecond 800-nm laser
E. A. Khazanov 230–232
Q-switched chemical cw HF laser
Yu. P. Maksimov, V. I. Mashendzhinov, V. È. Revich, M. A. Rotinyan, V. V. Sudarikov, N. E. Tret’yakov, I. A. Fedorov, V. A. Eller, A. L. Etsina 233–236
Electric-discharge XeCl laser emitting 10-J, 300-ns pulses
I. N. Konovalov, V. F. Losev, Yu. N. Panchenko, N. G. Ivanov, M. Yu. Sukhov 237–240
Continuously tunable single-frequency 1.52-μm diode laser for gas analysis
A. V. Gladyshev, M. I. Belovolov, S. A. Vasil’ev, V. P. Duraev, O. I. Medvedkov, A. I. Nadezhdinskii, E. T. Nedelin, Ya. Ya. Ponurovskii 241–242
Active media
Optical characteristics of the gas-discharge plasma of working mixtures in an excimer HgBr/HgI radiation source
A. N. Malinin 243–251
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Effect of the pulse duration on graphitisation of diamond during laser ablation
V. V. Kononenko, T. V. Kononenko, S. M. Pimenov, M. N. Sinyavskii, V. I. Konov, F. Dausinger 252–256
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Spectral study of resonance absorption upon three-wave mixing of femtosecond pulses in nonlinear crystals
S. S. Grechin 257–262
Study of nonlinear-optical characteristics of AgGa1-xInxSe2 crystals
V. V. Badikov, V. B. Laptev, V. L. Panyutin, E. A. Ryabov, G. S. Shevyrdyaeva 263–267
Solitons
Dynamics of strong coupling formation between laser solitons
N. N. Rosanov, S. V. Fedorov, A. N. Shatsev 268–272
Optical communication
Simulation of autosoliton optical pulses in high-speed fibreoptic communication systems
A. I. Latkin 273–277
Optical fibres
Enhanced diffusion of molecular hydrogen in germanosilicate fibres loaded with hydrogen at high pressures
S. A. Vasil’ev, A. O. Rybaltovskii, V. V. Koltashev, V. O. Sokolov, S. N. Klyamkin, O. I. Medvedkov, A. A. Rybaltovsky, A. R. Malosiev, V. G. Plotnichenko, E. M. Dianov 278–284
Optical metrology and quantum frequency standards
Frequency shifts in a stabilised laser due to reflection of radiation from extracavity optical elements
A. K. Dmitriev, A. S. Dychkov, A. A. Lugovoy 285–289
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Visualisation of the wave-front deformations caused by a phase object by the method of successive double lateral shear interferometry
A. M. Lyalikov 290–292
CARS study of linewidths of the Q-branch of hydrogen molecules at high temperatures in a pulsed high-pressure H2–O2 combustion chamber
K. A. Vereshchagin, A. K. Vereschagin, W. Clauss, D. N. Klimenko, M. Oschwald, V. V. Smirnov, O. M. Stel’makh, V. I. Fabelinskyĭ 293–298