Review Application of laser photothermal spectroscopy for standoff detection of trace explosive residues on surfaces L. A. Skvortsov, E. M. Maksimov 565–578 Lasers Stimulated emission from optically pumped quantum dots A. A. Andronov, Yu. N. Nozdrin, A. V. Okomel’kov, A. P. Vasil’ev, A. E. Zhukov, V. M. Ustinov 579–582 Catastrophic optical degradation of the output… Read More »
Lasers Diode-pumped tunable Tm : YLF laser for mid-infrared gas spectroscopy O. N. Eremeykin, A. P. Savikin, K. Yu. Pavlenko, V. V. Sharkov 471–474 Cw and Q-switched Nd:NaLa(MoO4)2 laser noncritical to the temperature drift of the diode pump laser wavelength S. N. Ushakov, V. A. Romanyuk, P. A. Ryabochkina, I. A. Shestakova, D. A. Lis,… Read More »
Active media Interaction of Er3+ ions in Er-doped calcium — niobium — gallium garnet crystals A. V. Malov, P. A. Ryabochkina, A. V. Popov, E. V. Bolshakova 377–380 Lasers Amplification of subpico second UV pulses in the multistage GARPUN-MTW Ti:sapphire — KrF laser system V. D. Zvorykin, A. O. Levchenko, N. N. Ustinovskii 381–385 Effect… Read More »
Letters On the nature of near-IR emitting Bi centres in glass E. M. Dianov 283–285 Effect of unmodulated laser light on the nanostructure of a thin solid AD-1 azo dye film A. M. Dubrovkin, A. A. Ezhov, V. M. Kozenkov, S. A. Magnitskiy, N. M. Nagorskii, V. I. Panov 286–287 Invited paper Investigation into the… Read More »
Letters Four-photon spectroscopy of rotational transitions in liquid: recording of changes in the chemical composition of water caused by cavitation A. F. Bunkin, S. M. Pershin 189–191 Lasers Electric-discharge high-peak-power CO2 laser V. M. Orlovskii, A. N. Panchenko, V. F. Tarasenko 192–194 Calculation of gain and luminescence spectra of quantum-cascade laser structures taking into account… Read More »
Letters An 8-μm quantum cascade laserproduced by the metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy method I. I. Zasavitskii, D. A. Pashkeev, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, G. T. Mikaelyan 95–97 Lasers Efficient lasing at 2.1 μm in a Ho:YAG laserpumped by a Tm:YLF laser N. G. Zakharov, O. L. Antipov, V. V. Sharkov, A. P. Savikin… Read More »
Invited paper Fibre optics: Forty years later E. M. Dianov 1–6 Lasers Continuous-wave Cr2+:CdS laser V. I. Kozlovsky, Yu. V. Korostelin, A. I. Landman, Yu. P. Podmar’kov, Ya. K. Skasyrsky, M. P. Frolov 7–10 Lasing characteristics of the Ar — Xe and He — Ar — Xe mixtures pumped by fission fragments Yu. A. Dyuzhov,… Read More »
Review Active spectral imaging for standoff detection of explosives L. A. Skvortsov 1051–1060 Nonlinear-optics phenomena Applied nonlinear optics in the journal “Quantum Electronics” S. G. Grechin, V. G. Dmitriev, A. S. Chirkin 1061–1068 Measurement of the photobleaching kinetics of semiconducting polymer films by the pump — probe method A. E. Ozimova, V. V. Bruevich, D.… Read More »
Nonlinear optical phenomena Fifty years of nonlinear laser optics V. A. Makarov 957 Filamentation of femtosecond laser radiation with a non-Gaussian transverse spatial profile A. A. Biryukov, N. A. Panov, M. V. Volkov, D. S. Uryupina, R. V. Volkov, O. G. Kosareva, A. B. Savel’ev-Trofimov 958–962 Highly efficient second-harmonic generation of intense femtosecond pulses with… Read More »
Active media Structural, optical, and spectroscopic properties and efficient two-micron lasing of new Tm3+:Lu2O3 ceramics O. L. Antipov, S. Yu. Golovkin, O. N. Gorshkov, N. G. Zakharov, A. P. Zinov’ev, A. P. Kasatkin, M. V. Kruglova, M. O. Marychev, A. A. Novikov, N. V. Sakharov, E. V. Chuprunov 863–868 Lasers Measuring the Stokes parameters of… Read More »