Invited paper Generation of shock waves and formation of craters in a solid material irradiated by a short laser pulse S. Yu. Gus’kov, S. Borodziuk, M. Kalal, A. Kasperczuk, B. Kralikova, E. Krousky, J. Limpouch, K. Masek, T. Pisarczyk, P. Pisarczyk, M. Pfeifer, K. Rohlena, J. Skala, J. Ullschmied 989–1003 Active media On a new… Read More »
Letters A method for spatial regularisation of a bunch of filaments in a femtosecond laser pulse V. P. Kandidov, N. Aközbek, M. Scalora, O. G. Kosareva, A. V. Nyakk, Q. Luo, S. A. Hosseini, S. L. Chin 879–880 Review Moderate-power cw fibre lasers A. S. Kurkov, E. M. Dianov 881–900 Lasers Effect of the pump… Read More »
Letters Self-mode locking in a F2-:LiF laser by means of a passive switch based on single-wall carbon nanotubes N. N. Il’ichev, E. D. Obraztsova, P. P. Pashinin, V. I. Konov, S. V. Garnov 785–786 On reasons for strong absorption of light in an optical fibre at high temperature S. I. Yakovlenko 787–789 Lasers Nitrogen laser… Read More »
Letters X-ray microscopy in the carbon window region I. A. Artyukov, A. V. Vinogradov, Yu. S. Kas’yanov, S. V. Savel’ev 691–692 Pulsed and cw lasing in a new Cr3+:Li:Mg2SiO4 laser crystal A. V. Gaister, E. V. Zharikov, V. F. Lebedev, A. S. Podstavkin, S. Yu. Tenyakov, A. V. Shestakov, I. A. Shcherbakov 693–694 Raman fibre… Read More »
Invited paper Diagnostics of the inhomogeneous distribution of quadratic optical susceptibility over parametric scattering spectra G. Kh. Kitaeva, A. N. Penin 597–611 Quantum nucleonics Quantum nucleonics: Status and prospects L. A. Rivlin 612–616 Lasers, active media Up-conversion and excitation energy transfer between impurity ions in Pr3+ : Y2SiO5, Pr3+ : Lu2SiO5, and Pr3+ : Gd2SiO5… Read More »
Review Lasing regimes in solid-state ring lasers with modulated parameters N. V. Kravtsov, E. G. Lariontsev 487–505 Lasers Terawatt femtosecond Cr : forsterite laser system M. B. Agranat, S. I. Ashitkov, A. A. Ivanov, A. V. Konyashchenko, A. V. Ovchinnikov, V. E. Fortov 506–508 Attainment of a high gain in a disk amplifying stage with… Read More »
International Conference ‘Optics of Lasers -2003’ International Conference on “Optics of Lasers-2003” A. A. Mak 393 Monte-Carlo simulation of the kinetics of nuclear and radiative processes upon fast ignition of the fusion target in a `double liner’ system A. A. Andreev, S. Yu. Gus’kov, S. V. Zakharov, D. V. Il’in, A. A. Levkovskiĭ, K. Yu.… Read More »
Physical foundations of quantum electronics On the distortion of a wave packet propagating in an amplifying medium N. S. Bukhman 299–306 Lasers High-quality beam generation in a 8-kW cw CO2 laser Yu. V. Afonin, A. P. Golyshev, A. I. Ivanchenko, A. N. Malov, A. M. Orishich, V. A. Pechurin, V. F. Filev, V. B. Shulyat’ev… Read More »
Invited paper Deactivation of the 6s and 6s’ states of a xenon atom in collisions with helium, argon, and xenon atoms L. V. Semenova, N. N. Ustinovskii, I. V. Kholin 189–198 Lasers A 650-J XeCl laser È. N. Abdullin, D. M. Grishin, V. P. Gubanov, V. B. Zorin, A. A. Kim, B. M. Koval’chuk, E.… Read More »
Lasers A 223-nm KrCl excimer laser on a He–Kr–HCl mixture A. M. Razhev, A. A. Zhupikov, E. S. Kargapol’tsev 95–98 Model of a pulsed liquid solar-pumped spaceborne laser A. A. Seregin, E. A. Seregina 99–102 Influence of oxygen on the energy characteristics of a chemical pulsed hydrogen fluoride laser V. I. Igoshin, A. I. Klyukach,… Read More »