Review Laser methods for detecting explosive residues on surfaces of distant objects L. A. Skvortsov 1–11 Lasers Semiconductor disk laser-pumped subpicosecond holmium fibre laser A. Yu. Chamorovskiy, A. V. Marakulin, T. Leinonen, A. S. Kurkov, O. G. Okhotnikov 12–14 Laser diode bars based on strain-compensated AlGaPAs/GaAs heterostructures A. A. Marmalyuk, M. A. Ladugin, I. V.… Read More »
Letters Nanostructuring of single-crystal silicon carbide by picosecond UV laser radiation E. V. Barmina, A. A. Serkov, G. A. Shafeev 1091–1093 Lasers Numerical simulation of the main characteristics of a high-pressure DF–CO2 laser for amplification of picosecond laser pulses V. Ya. Agroskin, B. G. Bravy, G. K. Vasil’ev, S. A. Kashtanov, E. F. Makarov, S.… Read More »
Lasers Study of Tm : Sc2SiO5 laser pumped into the 3H6 – 3F4 transition of Tm3+ ions Yu. D. Zavartsev, A. I. Zagumennyi, Yu. L. Kalachev, S. A. Kutovoi, V. A. Mikhaĭlov, I. A. Shcherbakov 989–993 Broadband semiconductor optical amplifiers of the spectral range 750 – 1100 nm E. V. Andreeva, S. N. Il’chenko, M.… Read More »
Lasers AlGaAs/GaAs laser diode bars (λ = 808 nm) with improved thermal stability A. A. Marmalyuk, M. A. Ladugin, A. Yu. Andreev, K. Yu. Telegin, I. V. Yarotskaya, A. S. Meshkov, V. P. Konyaev, S. M. Sapozhnikov, E. I. Lebedeva, V. A. Simakov 895–897 Longitudinal discharge pumped low-pressure XeCl laser A. I. Fedorov 898–902 Efficient… Read More »
Nanogradient dielectric coatings and metamaterials Polarisation effects in gradient nano-optics N. S. Erokhin, Yu. M. Zueva, A. B. Shvartsburg 785–790 Fabrication of nanogradient coatings for laser devices using the method of magnetron sputtering N. F. Abramov, O. D. Volpyan, Yu. A. Obod, R. V. Dronskii 791–794 Cube-corner reflectors with interference dielectric coating A. L. Sokolov,… Read More »
Control of laser pulse parameters Control over the performance characteristics of a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fibre ring laser M. A. Chernysheva, A. A. Krylov, A. A. Ogleznev, N. R. Arutyunyan, A. S. Pozharov, E. D. Obraztsova, E. M. Dianov 691–698 Amplitude and phase modulation of radiation in a travelling-wave amplifier based on a laser diode… Read More »
Letters Neodymium glass laser with a pulse energy of 220 J and a pulse repetition rate of 0.02 Hz A. A. Kuzmin, O. V. Kulagin, E. A. Khazanov, A. A. Shaikin 597–599 Lasers Two-frequency picosecond laser based on composite vanadate crystals with σ-polarised radiation A. A. Sirotkin, S. P. Sadovskii, S. V. Garnov 600–602 Holmium… Read More »
Lasers THz laser based on quasi-periodic AlGaAs superlattices K. V. Malyshev 503–508 High-power cw laser bars of the 750 – 790-nm wavelength range N. S. Degtyareva, S. A. Kondakov, G. T. Mikayelyan, P. V. Gorlachuk, M. A. Ladugin, A. A. Marmalyuk, Yu. L. Ryaboshtan, I. V. Yarotskaya 509–511 Nonlinear optical phenomena Realisation of four-wave mixing… Read More »
Semiconductor lasers. Physics and Technology Guiding effect of quantum wells in semiconductor lasers V. Ya. Aleshkin, N. V. Dikareva, A. A. Dubinov, B. N. Zvonkov, M. V. Karzanova, K. E. Kudryavtsev, S. M. Nekorkin, A. N. Yablonskii 401–406 High-power 850–870-nm pulsed lasers based on heterostructures with narrow and wide waveguides M. A. Ladugin, Yu. P.… Read More »
Extreme light fields and their applications Electron acceleration and emission in a field of a plane and converging dipole wave of relativistic amplitudes with the radiation reaction force taken into account A. V. Bashinov, A. A. Gonoskov, A. V. Kim, M. Marklund, G. Mourou, A. M. Sergeev 291–299 Fabrication of microcapillaries in fused silica using… Read More »