To the authors and readers of Quantum Electronics
O. N. Krokhin 1
Active media. Lasers
Optimisation of doping cladding layers in AlGaInP/GaInP laser heterostructures
A. A. Chel’nyi, A. V. Aluev, S. V. Maslov 2–4
Collisional thulium vapour gas-discharge laser
V. A. Gerasimov, A. V. Pavlinskii 5–7
Pulsed mid-IR Cr2+:ZnS and Cr2+:ZnSe lasers pumped by Raman-shifted Q-switched neodymium lasers
K. Graham, V. V. Fedorov, S. B. Mirov, M. E. Doroshenko, T. T. Basiev, Yu. V. Orlovskii, V. V. Osiko, V. V. Badikov, V. L. Panyutin 8–14
Study of the spectral and power characteristics of superluminescent diodes
O. V. Zhuravleva, V. D. Kurnosov, K. V. Kurnosov, A. V. Lobintsov, V. I. Romantsevich, V. A. Simakov, R. V. Chernov 15–19
Study of a Nd3+:KGW crystal laser transversely pumped by laser diode bars
A. Yu. Abazadze, G. M. Zverev, Yu. M. Kolbatskov, N. S. Ustimenko 20–22
Two-quantum-induced energy release of isomeric nuclei
L. A. Rivlin 23–28
Complete optimisation of an electron-beam-pumped Xe laser emitting at 1.73, 2.03, 2.65, 2.63, 3.37, and 3.51 μm
A. V. Karelin, O. V. Simakova 29–36
Interaction of laser radiation with matter. Laser plasma
Photoinduced anisotropy of the refractive index of an azopolymer with liquid-crystal properties
M. S. Andreeva, V. I. Shmalgauzen 37–40
Mechanism of high-energy electron production in a laser plasma
V. S. Belyaev 41–46
Nanoparticles
Formation of the alloy of Au and Ag nanoparticles upon laser irradiation of the mixture of their colloidal solutions
A. T. Izgaliev, A. V. Simakin, G. A. Shafeev 47–50
Optical fibres
Envelope and phase evolution of femtosecond pulses in hollow photonic-crystal fibres
S. O. Konorov, A. B. Fedotov, V. I. Beloglazov, N. B. Skibina, A. V. Shcherbakov, A. M. Zheltikov 51–55
Self-phase modulation of femtosecond pulses in hollow photonic-crystal fibres
S. O. Konorov, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, I. Bugar, D. Chorvat (Jr.), V. I. Beloglazov, N. B. Skibina, L. A. Melnikov, A. V. Shcherbakov, D. Chorvat, A. M. Zheltikov 56–58
The fibre fuse effect in microstructured fibres
E. M. Dianov, A. A. Frolov, I. A. Bufetov, S. L. Semenov, Yu. K. Chamorovsky, G. A. Ivanov, I. L. Vorob’ev 59–61
Resonators. Interferometers
Characteristics of a recirculation fibre interferometer at a high-frequency radiation-phase modulation
È. I. Alekseev, E. N. Bazarov, V. P. Gubin, A. I. Sazonov, N. I. Starostin, A. I. Oussov 62–66
Efficiency of an unstable resonator with an active medium containing small-scale phase inhomogeneities
V. V. Lobachev, S. Yu. Strakhov 67–70
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Control of the angular structure of high-order harmonics
S. Batebi, V. T. Platonenko 71–75
Coherence length and refined SHG equations for periodically poled nonlinear crystals
V. G. Dmitriev, Yu. V. Yur’ev 76–80
Nonlinear-optical parameters of thin C60 films at 532 nm
R. A. Ganeev, A. I. Ryasnyansky, V. I. Redkorechev, K. Fostiropoulos, G. Priebe, T. B. Usmanov 81–85
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
CARS spectroscopy of carbon dioxide in the critical point vicinity
V. G. Arakcheev, V. N. Bagratashvili, A. A. Valeev, V. M. Gordienko, V. V. Kireev, V. B. Morozov, A. N. Olenin, V. K. Popov, V. G. Tunkin, D. V. Yakovlev 86–90
Spatially depolarised laser radiation
E. F. Ishchenko, A. L. Sokolov 91–94