Letters
CW bismuth fibre laser
E. M. Dianov, V. V. Dvoyrin, V. M. Mashinsky, A. A. Umnikov, M. V. Yashkov, A. N. Gur’yanov 1083–1084
Review
Fibre gratings and their applications
S. A. Vasil’ev, O. I. Medvedkov, I. G. Korolev, A. S. Bozhkov, A. S. Kurkov, E. M. Dianov 1085–1103
Active media
Kinetics of the nitrogen first negative system excitation by ionising radiation
M. U. Khasenov 1104–1106
Lasers
Gain dynamics in the active medium of a pulsed e-beam sustained discharge CO laser: theory and experiment
S. V. Vetoshkin, A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, A. Yu. Kozlov, A. A. Kotkov, A. K. Kurnosov, A. P. Napartovich, O. A. Rulev, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn, S. L. Shnyrev 1107–1112
Longitudinally diode-pumped quasi-continuous Yb3+, Er3+:LSB laser
Yu. P. Rudnitskii, L. V. Shachkin, S. T. Durmanov, G. V. Smirnov 1113–1116
Spontaneous radiative recombination and nonradiative Auger recombination in quantum-confined heterostructures
L. V. Asryan 1117–1120
Spatial radiation intensity distribution of linear diode arrays and calculation of inversionin fibre-coupled end-pumped solid-state lasers
M. V. Gorbunkov, P. V. Kostryukov, V. B. Morozov, A. N. Olenin, L. S. Telegin, V. G. Tunkin, D. V. Yakovlev 1121–1125
High-power supersonic CO laser on fundamental and overtone transitions
W. Bohn, H. von Bülow, S. Dass, A. A. Ionin, Yu. M. Klimachev, A. A. Kotkov, J. K. McIver, J. E. McCord, L. V. Seleznev, D. V. Sinitsyn, R. F. Tate, G. D. Hager 1126–1130
Application of a distributed gold catalyst to increase the output power and efficiency of a sealed off CO2 laser pumped by a transverse rf discharge in tubes
N. A. Generalov, V. P. Zimakov, N. G. Solov’ev, A. N. Shemyakin, M. Yu. Yakimov, N. A. Yatsenko 1131–1137
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Phase-sensitive electric modulation of photoluminescence upon bichromatic excitation of atoms
V. A. Astapenko 1138–1142
On the maximum energy of ions in a disintegrating ultrathin foil irradiated by a high-power ultrashort laser pulse
V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. F. Kovalev 1143–1145
Resonators
Eigenfrequencies of an inhomogeneously filled ring optical resonator
V. F. Soudakov 1146–1148
Radiation scattering
On radiation scattering by a particle located in a regularly inhomogeneous medium
R. Kh. Almaev, A. A. Suvorov 1149–1156
On the renormalisation of the diffusion asymptotics in the problem of reflection of a narrow optical beam from a biological medium
A. Yu. Appanov, Yu. N. Barabanenkov 1157–1162
Integrated optics
Integrated optical demultiplexer based on the SiO2–SiON waveguide structure
A. A. Goncharov, S. V. Kuzmin, V. V. Svetikov, K. K. Svidzinsky, V. A. Sychugov, N. V. Trusov 1163–1166
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Mobile multiwave lidar complexes
A. S. Boreysho, M. A. Konyaev, A. V. Morozov, A. V. Pikulik, A. V. Savin, A. V. Trilis, S. Ya. Chakchir, N. I. Boiko, Yu. N. Vlasov, S. P. Nikitaev, A. V. Rozhnov 1167–1178
Obituary
To the memory of Igor’ Il’ich Sobel’man
O. N. Krokhin 1179