Letters
Defect – deformation nanometer self-organisation upon laser recrystallisation of thin amorphous films on substrates
V. I. Emel’yanov, K. I. Eremin, A. A. Sumbatov 753–755
Review
Trapped phonons in ultrathin metal films: the interpretation of recent femtosecond experiments
A. O. Melikyan, H. R. Minassian 756–764
Invited paper
Excitation of sound waves upon propagation of laser pulses in optical fibres
A. S. Biriukov, M. E. Sukharev, E. M. Dianov 765–775
Nonlinear optical phenomena
Optical nonlinearity of fullerene-doped polymer nanocomposites
O. L. Antipov, I. V. Yurasova, G. A. Domrachev 776–780
Study of nonlinear optical characteristics of various media by the methods of z-scan and third harmonic generation of laser radiation
R. A. Ganeev, N. V. Kamanina, I. A. Kulagin, A. I. Ryasnyansky, R. I. Tugushev, T. B. Usmanov 781–788
Degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy of ultrathin Au and Pt films
Yu. V. Bobyrev, V. M. Petnikova, K. V. Rudenko, V. V. Shuvalov 789–792
Active media
Spectroscopic studies of the population of high-energy levels of Nd3+-doped laser crystals upon intense pumping
O. L. Antipov, O. N. Eremeykin, A. P. Savikin 793–798
Lasers
Efficient generation in a chemical oxygen — iodine laser with a low buffer-gas flow rate
V. N. Azyazov, V. S. Safonov, N. I. Ufimtsev 799–802
Lasing on the 5s2 2D5/2 → 5p 2P3/2 Cd II ion transition upon sputtering of metal cadmium by nuclear particles
A. I. Mis’kevich 803–808
Low-frequency intensity fluctuations in high-power single-mode ridge quantum-well InGaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure semiconductor lasers
A. P. Bogatov, A. E. Drakin, S. A. Plisyuk, A. A. Stratonnikov, M. Sh. Kobyakova, A. V. Zubanov, A. A. Marmalyuk, A. A. Padalitsa 809–814
Influence of the switch parameters on the performance characteristics of a copper vapour laser
N. A. Yudin 815–819
Multimode oscillation of a cw unstable-cavity CO2 laser with a nonstationary active medium
V. G. Naumov, P. A. Svotin 820–824
Control of laser radiation parameters
Efficient 510 → 578-nm conversion of emission of copper vapour lasers
A. B. D’yachkov, V. P. Labozin 825–827
Spatial and spectral filtering of supercontinuum emission generated in microstructure fibres
A. B. Fedotov, P. Zhou, Yu. N. Kondrat’ev, S. N. Bagayev, V. S. Shevandin, K. V. Dukelskii, A. V. Khokhlov, V. B. Smirnov, A. P. Tarasevitch, D. Linde, A. M. Zheltikov 828–832
Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics
Spectra of quantum systems in superstrong inertial force fields
V. I. Denisov, N. V. Kravtsov 833–834
Synthesis of improved-quality images in the millimetre wavelength range
L. V. Volkov, A. I. Voronko, A. R. Karapetyan, S. A. Tikhomirov 835–843
Electron-deformation mechanism of photoexcitation of hypersound in semiconductors in a dc electric field
N. V. Chigarev 844–846