Letters
Superbroadband high-power superluminescent diode emitting at 920 nm
D. S. Mamedov, V. V. Prokhorov, S. D. Yakubovich 471–473
Invited paper
Penning high-pressure lasers on the 3p – 3s transitions in neon emitting at 703 and 920 nm
D. A. Zayarnyi, I. V. Kholin 474–484
Lasers
Measurement of the gain in a disk amplification stage with neodymium phosphate glass active elements
I. N. Voronich, I. V. Galakhov, S. G. Garanin, V. A. Yeroshenko, A. I. Zaretskii, B. G. Zimalin, I. V. Ignat’ev, M. Yu. Kirdyashkin, G. A. Kirillov, V. A. Osin, N. N. Rukavishnikov, S. A. Sukharev, O. A. Sharov, A. V. Charukhchev 485–488
Self-initiating volume discharge in iodides used for producing atomic iodine in pulsed chemical oxygen – iodine lasers
A. A. Belevtsev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, A. V. Saifulin, K. N. Firsov 489–492
Ray tracing in nuclear-pumped flowing gas lasers
V. Yu. Mat’ev 493–497
Solid-state active media based on aminocoumarins
T. N. Kopylova, G. V. Maier, A. V. Reznichenko, L. G. Samsonova, V. A. Svetlichnyi, S. M. Dolotov, E. P. Ponomarenko, M. A. Tavrizova 498–502
Model of a nuclear – optically – pumped liquid laser
A. A. Seregin, P. P. D’yachenko, E. A. Seregina 503–506
Pumping efficiency and lifetime of the 4F3/2 level of a neodymium ion in a liquid Nd3+: POCl3 – SnCl4 – UO22+ laser-active medium upon pulsed irradiation by fission fragments in a BARS-6 reactor
V. I. Lapidus, A. F. Dobrovol’skii, P. P. D’yachenko, E. A. Seregina, G. V. Tikhonov 507–510
Broadband radiation sources based on quantum-well superluminescent diodes emitting at 1550 nm
D. S. Mamedov, V. V. Prokhorov, S. D. Yakubovich 511–514
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Effect of cubic nonlinearity on reflection and transmission of laser radiation in a one-dimensional photonic crystal
V. A. Bushuev, A. D. Pryamikov 515–519
Polychromatic solitons in the case of four-photon Raman parametric interaction
A. V. Andreev, A. A. Valeev 520–524
Initial phase modulation of a high-power femtosecond laser pulse as a tool for controlling its filamentation and generation of a supercontinuum in air
I. S. Golubtsov, V. P. Kandidov, O. G. Kosareva 525–530
Control of laser radiation parameters
Phase filtering of the inphase mode of a linear laser array in the Talbot resonator
V. P. Kandidov, I. V. Terekhova 531–536
On condensation of the emission spectrum of a broadband laser upon intracavity light scattering by aerosols
A. I. Vanin 537–538
Passive mode locking of a Nd:YAG laser with a thin gelatine-film saturable absorber containing organic-dye J-aggregates
V. I. Avdeeva, A. S. Kuch’yanov, A. I. Plekhanov, Yu. L. Solominskii, A. I. Tolmachev, B. I. Shapiro 539–541
Fiber optics
Experimental realisation of a double-core dispersion-compensating optical fibre for S-band optical communications
P. R. Watecar, M. L. N. Goswami, J. C. Biswas, H. N. Acharya 542–544
Narrow-band Bragg filters for the 1.5-μm spectral region based on polished-side single-mode silica fibres
V. I. Sokolov, A. I. Khudobenko 545–546
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Application of deformable mirrors in industrial CO2 lasers. I. A mirror with a controllable curvature of the reflecting surface
O. B. Vyskubenko, P. I. Kapustin, I. S. Kolokolov, V. I. Masychev, A. G. Safronov 547–552
Isotope-selective photoionisation of palladium
V. I. Derzhiev, V. M. Dyakin, R. I. Ilkaev, L. A. Mikhal’tsov, A. Yu. Sapozhkov, V. D. Selemir, I. I. Sidorov, A. N. Tkachev, S. A. Chaushanskii, S. I. Yakovlenko 553–558
Binary phase masks on self-developing photopolymers: the technique for formation and testing in an optical correlator
P. V. Yezhov, O. A. Il’in, T. N. Smirnova, E. A. Tikhonov 559–562
Direct acceleration of electrons by intense ultrashort laser pulses
A. Bahari, V. D. Taranukhin 563–564