SPECIAL ISSUE ON LASER DIAGNOSTICS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE Lasers and biomedical diagnostics A. V. Priezzhev 847–848 Optical tomography of tissues D. A. Zimnyakov, V. V. Tuchin 849–867 Distribution of the laser radiation intensity in turbid media: Monte Carlo simulations, theoretical analysis, and results of optoacoustic measurements P. S. Grashin, A. A. Karabutov, A. A.… Read More »
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… Read More »
Active media. Lasers Aggregate colour centres in impurity LiF crystals T. T. Basiev, A. Ya. Karasik, V. A. Konyushkin, A. G. Papashvili, K. K. Pukhov, I. V. Ermakov, V. Gellermann 659–662 Effect of the degree of preionisation of a gas on the homogeneity of a volume discharge and generation of radiation in a wide-aperture XeCl-laser… Read More »
Letters Microobject manipulation by laser beams with a nonzero orbital momentum V. G. Volostnikov, S. P. Kotova, N. N. Losevskii, M. A. Rakhmatulin 565–566 Negative group velocity of a light pulse in cesium vapour A. M. Akulshin, A. Cimmino, G. I. Opat 567–569 Invited paper Some new trends in laser isotope separation in atomic vapours… Read More »
Letters Change in the spectrum of optical whispering-gallery modes in a quasi-cylindrical microresonator caused by an acoustic pressure pulse V. A. Bogatyrev, V. I. Vovchenko, I. K. Krasyuk, V. A. Oboev, A. Yu. Semenov, V. A. Sychugov, V. P. Torchigin 471–472 Defect-deformation mechanism of spontaneous nucleation of an ensemble of pores in solids and its… Read More »
Review Whispering-gallery waves A. N. Oraevsky 377–400 Lasers A 10-fs Ti:sapphire laser with a folded ring resonator A. A. Babin, A. M. Kiselev, A. V. Kirsanov, A. N. Stepanov 401–403 Pulsed laser operating on the first vibrational overtone of the CO molecule in the 2.5 – 4.2-μm range: 3. The gain and kinetic processes on… Read More »
Letters Detection of radiation from a Ti:sapphire laser with a high space – time resolution A. M. Prokhorov, N. S. Vorob’ev, V. I. Lozovoi, A. V. Smirnov, M. Ya. Shchelev 283–284 Active media Inversionless radiation amplification by ions having certain velocities in a magnetic field A. I. Parkhomenko 285–288 Deionisation of the afterglow plasma due… Read More »
Special edition devoted to the 40th Anniversary of Polyus Research & Development Institute On the 40th Anniversary of Polyus Research and Development Institute A. A. Kazakov 189–191 Highly efficient pulsed Nd:YAG lasers with radiation frequency conversion V. A. Konovalov, V. L. Pavlovich, E. V. Raevskii 192–196 On the kinetics of nonradiative energy transfer in Yb… Read More »
Lasers, active media Development of a self-initiated volume discharge in nonchain HF lasers V. V. Apollonov, A. A. Belevtsev, S. Yu. Kazantsev, A. V. Saifulin, K. N. Firsov 95–100 Effect of the solution temperature in a singlet-oxygen generator on the formation of active medium in an ejector oxygen — iodine laser M. V. Zagidullin, V.… Read More »
Active media Atomic iodine production in a gas flow by decomposing methyl iodide in a dc glow discharge P. A. Mikheev, A. A. Shepelenko, A. I. Voronov, N. V. Kupryaev 1–4 Control of laser radiation parameters Stable two-frequency generation in a Nd3+:YAG laser with a phase-anisotropic cavity upon intracavity SHG in the laser frequency control… Read More »