1. Chaotic laser dynamics

   • C. O. Weiss

   Tutorial Review Pages: 1 - 22

2. Highly accurate method for the numerical determination of propagation constants of single-mode fibres with arbitrary index profiles

   • Shijun Jiang
   • Biyue Liu

   Letters Pages: 23 - 25

3. Ultraviolet stimulated emission in photodissociated lead

   • Zhang Daozhong
   • Cheng Bingying
   • Wang Lihua

   Letter Pages: 26 - 29

4. GaAs ‘giant’ modulation of polarization of ps-light pulses under suppression of exciton resonance

   • Z. M. Kostov
   • N. I. Zheludev

   Letter Pages: 30 - 33

5. Influence of the non-Lorentzian emission lineshape of laser diodes on the BER_floor in DPSK heterodyne optical systems

   • S. Piazzolla
   • M. Tamburrini
   • P. Spano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 38

6. The effect of spatial filtering on non-linear distortions of laser diodes

   • M. Imai
   • T. P. Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 48

7. Optical considerations in the design of digital optical computers

   • M. E. Prise
   • N. Streibl
   • M. M. Downs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 77

8. Stimulated four-photon mixing in bent few-mode optical fibres

   • S. J. Garth
   • C. Pask
   • G. E. Rosman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 86

9. Book reviews

   • M. Razeghi
   • Ian W. Boyd
   • D. J. Hunt

   BookReview Pages: 87 - 93