Letters
Whether is it possible to produce high concentrations of carriers in a semiconductor for observing the Bose condensate at room temperature?
A. N. Oraevsky 377–379
A miracle happening to a laser beam in a soap film
A. V. Startsev, Yu. Yu. Stoilov 380–382
Review
Optical frequency standards and femtosecond lasers
E. V. Baklanov, P. V. Pokasov 383–400
Lasers
Efficient oscillation regimes of an HF laser pumped by a nonchain chemical reaction initiated by a self-sustained discharge
A. N. Panchenko, V. M. Orlovskii, V. F. Tarasenko, E. Kh. Baksht 401–407
Efficient lasing of a Cr2+ : ZnSe crystal grown from a vapour phase
V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, M. P. Frolov 408–410
Self-terminated laser amplifier with an enhanced peak output pulse power
V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov 411–415
UV lasing in a multipass copper vapour amplifier – nonlinear crystal system
V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov 416–418
Control of laser radiation parameters
Non-self-sustained slab discharge as an efficient method for exciting an active laser medium
A. V. Azarov, S. V. Mit’ko, V. N. Ochkin, S. Yu. Savinov 419–424
Effect of parasitic elements of a ridge laser on its modulation characteristic
A. V. Ivanov, V. D. Kurnosov, K. V. Kurnosov, A. V. Lobintsov, V. I. Romantsevich, R. V. Chernov 425–429
Optically controlled spherical liquid-crystal lens: theory and experiment
I. R. Guralnik, S. A. Samagin 430–434
Interaction of laser radiation with matter
Stability of the front of laser evaporation of metals under conditions of limited vapour expansion
I. N. Kartashov, A. A. Samokhin 435–440
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Nonlinear refraction in an epoxy-based polymer with 4-aminoazobenzene caused by the orientation of azobenzene molecules upon pulsed laser excitation
A. A. Borsch, M. S. Brodin, V. I. Volkov, V. R. Lyakhovetskii, A. S. Kutsenko 441–445
Effect of optical activity on the self-focusing of light beams in cubic photorefractive crystals
V. V. Shepelevich, R. Kovarshik, A. Kisling, V. Matusevich, A. A. Golub 446–450
Study of surface plasmons with a scanning acoustic microscope
J. Bereiter-Hahn, C. Blase, Yu. E. Lozovik, M. M. Nazarov, A. P. Shkurinov 451–455
Solitons
Stimulated Raman self-scattering of femtosecond pulses. II. The self-compression of Schrödinger solitons in a spectrally inhomogeneous dispersion medium
V. N. Serkin, T. L. Belyaeva, G. H. Corro, M. Agüero Granados 456–459
Stimulated decay of N-soliton pulses and optimal separation of one-soliton components
V. A. Aleshkevich, V. A. Vyslouh, A. S. Zhukarev, Ya. V. Kartashov, P. V. Sinilo 460–464
Waveguide Holography
Influence of planar waveguide parameters on the quality of a two-dimensional waveguide-hologram image
I. V. Gustomyasov, A. N. Putilin, A. V. Chernopyatov 465–470