Letters Pulsed laser deposition of hard carbon coatings at atmospheric pressure T. V. Kononenko, V. I. Konov, E. N. Lubnin, F. Dausinger 189–191 Active media Spectral and luminescent properties of forsterite single crystals heavily doped with chromium: I. Absorption spectra V. F. Lebedev, A. V. Gaister, S. Yu. Tenyakov, A. E. Levchenko, E. M. Dianov,… Read More »
Special issue devoted to the 80th anniversary of academician N. G. Basov’s birth Symmetric compression of ‘laser greenhouse’ targets by a few laser beams S. Yu. Gus’kov, N. N. Demchenko, V. B. Rozanov, R. V. Stepanov, N. V. Zmitrenko, A. Caruso, C. Strangio 95–104 Emission spectra of a plasma observed upon irradiation of solid targets… Read More »
Special issue devoted to the 80th anniversary of academician N. G. Basov’s birth Reminiscing about the early years of the X-ray laser J. Nilsen 1–2 A capillary discharge plasma source of intense VUV radiation I. I. Sobel’man, A. P. Shevel’ko, O. F. Yakushev, L. V. Knight, R. S. Turley 3–6 Repetitively pulsed X-ray laser operating… Read More »
Optical metrology and quantum frequency standards State of the art and outlook for investigations in the field of optical metrology and quantum frequency standards M. A. Gubin 1083 Use of cold cesium atoms in quantum frequency standards Yu. S. Domnin, G. A. Elkin, A. V. Novoselov, V. N. Baryshev, L. N. Kopylov, Yu. M. Malyshev,… Read More »
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 »