Letters
Pulsed laser deposition of hard carbon coatings at atmospheric pressure
T. V. Kononenko, V. I. Konov, E. N. Lubnin, F. Dausinger 189–191
Active media
Spectral and luminescent properties of forsterite single crystals heavily doped with chromium: I. Absorption spectra
V. F. Lebedev, A. V. Gaister, S. Yu. Tenyakov, A. E. Levchenko, E. M. Dianov, E. V. Zharikov 192–196
Spectral and luminescent properties of forsterite single crystals heavily doped with chromium: II. Luminescence
V. F. Lebedev, A. V. Gaister, S. Yu. Tenyakov, E. M. Dianov, E. V. Zharikov 197–200
Lasers
Simulation and optimisation of the optically pumped HCl laser
S. V. Vasil’ev, M. A. Kuz’mina, T. T. Basiev, G. D. Hager 201–209
Emission of a molecular gas HCl laser at 4 μm upon optical pumping by a tunable colour centre laser into the third vibrational overtone
T. T. Basiev, M. E. Doroshenko, S. B. Kravtsov, V. V. Skornyakov, P. G. Zverev, S. V. Vasil’ev, S. S. Alimpiev, S. M. Nikiforov, G. D. Hager 210–214
Production of iodine atoms for an oxygen—iodine laser from iodine-containing molecules with the help of atomic oxygen
A. A. Shepelenko, P. A. Mikheev 215–218
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Condensation of vibrational excitation and properties of Raman scattering by conjugated-polymer chains
A. V. Voronov, V. M. Petnikova, V. V. Shuvalov 219–225
Interaction of two counterpropagating waves in a Ca:Ga:Bi12TiO20 crystal upon photoinduced absorption of light
A. G. Mart’yanov, E. Yu. Ageev, S. M. Shandarov, A. E. Mandel’, N. V. Bochanova, N. V. Ivanova, Yu. F. Kargin, V. V. Volkov, A. V. Egorysheva, V. V. Shepelevich 226–230
Interference of laser-induced resonances in the continuous structures of a helium atom
A. I. Magunov, S. I. Strakhova 231–234
Laser beams
Properties of an astigmatic π/2-mode converter
A. A. Malyutin 235–243
Rotation of arbitrary laser beams using π/2-mode converters
A. A. Malyutin 244–249
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Localisation of spherical particles under the action of a gradient force in an interference field of laser radiation
A. A. Afanas’ev, A. N. Rubinov, Yu. A. Kurochkin, S. Yu. Mikhnevich, I. E. Ermolaev 250–254
Transformation of the spatial coherence of pulsed laser radiation in a delay line
E. V. Ivakin, A. I. Kitsak, N. V. Karelin, A. M. Lazaruk, A. S. Rubanov 255–258
High-performance optoelectronic switching network with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays
V. B. Fyodorov 259–264
Fibre optics
New single-mode fibres with the flat spectral dependence of the chromatic dispersion varying over the fibre length
U. G. Akhmetshin, V. A. Bogatyrev, A. K. Senatorov, A. A. Sysolyatin, M. G. Shalygin 265–267
Modulation instability of optical radiation in single-mode amplifying fibres
I. O. Zolotovskii, D. I. Sementsov 268–270
Waveguiding properties and the spectrum of modes of hollow-core photonic-crystal fibres
A. B. Fedotov, S. O. Konorov, O. A. Kolevatova, V. I. Beloglazov, N. B. Skibina, L. A. Melnikov, A. V. Shcherbakov, A. M. Zheltikov 271–274
Photosensitivity of germanosilicate fibres and preforms doped with nitrogen inhomogeneously over the cross section
Yu. P. Yatsenko, V. M. Mashinsky, O. I. Medvedkov, O. D. Sazhin, E. M. Dianov, V. F. Khopin, N. N. Vechkanov, A. N. Gur’yanov 275–280
Bibliography
Review of the book “The Physics of Quantum Information” edited by D. Bouwmeester, A. Ekert, and A. Zeilinger (Moscow: Postmarket, 2002)
A. S. Chirkin 281
Personalia
Evgenii Mikhailovich Zemskov
O. N. Krokhin 282