1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Imagery of ocean waves by synthetic aperture radar

   • K. Ouchi

   Invited Paper Pages: 1 - 11

3. Strong far-infrared laser action in carbonyl fluoride and vinyl fluoride

   • F. Temps
   • H. Gg. Wagner

   Contributed Papers Pages: 13 - 14

4. Lifetime, photostability, and chemical structure of IR heptamethine cyanine dyes absorbing beyond 1 μm

   • B. Kopainsky
   • P. Qiu
   • K. H. Drexhage

   Contributed Papers Pages: 15 - 18

5. CW dye laser operation at 200 W pump power

   • H. J. Baving
   • H. Muuss
   • W. Skolaut

   Contributed Papers Pages: 19 - 21

6. Phase conjugate wavefront generation by forced Rayleigh scattering

   • K. Chiang
   • M. D. Levenson

   Contributed Papers Pages: 23 - 30

7. CARS studies of vibrationally excited nitrogen at low pressures

   • T. Dreier
   • U. Wellhausen
   • G. Marowsky

   Contributed Papers Pages: 31 - 36

8. Four-wave mixing in alkali halide crystals and aqueous solutions

   • A. Penzkofer
   • J. Schmailzl
   • H. Glas

   Contributed Papers Pages: 37 - 42

9. Light-polarization modifications in a multipass cavity

   • M. A. Bouchiat
   • L. Pottier

   Contributed Papers Pages: 43 - 54

10. Photoionization and fragmentation of alkali metal clusters in supersonic molecular beams

    • G. Delacrétaz
    • J. D. Ganière
    • L. Wöste

    Contributed Papers Pages: 55 - 61

11. Development of an optical time scale

    • V. P. Chebotayev
    • V. G. Goldort
    • V. F. Zakharyash

    Contributed Papers Pages: 63 - 65