1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. State-specific rotational energy transfer in OH (A ²Σ⁺, v′=0) by some combustion-relevant collision partners

   • A. Jörg
   • U. Meier
   • K. Kohse-Höinghaus

   OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 310

3. Observation of intense stokes and anti-stokes lines in CH₄ pumped by 355 nm of a Nd:YAG laser

   • K. Sentrayan
   • L. Major
   • V. Kushawaha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 318

4. Asymmetrical spectral broadening of SRS and its temperature dependence in a phenylethanol liquid-core wave-guide optical fiber

   • Xuebiao Lu
   • Lei Wang
   • Mingxin Qiu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 322

5. Gas density measurement of pulsed gas jets using XeF four-photon fluorescence induced by a KrF laser

   • T. Adachi
   • K. Kondo
   • S. Watanabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 326

6. Spatial distributions of electron density in microplasmas produced by laser ablation of solids

   • X. Z. Zhao
   • L. J. Shen
   • K. Niemax

   OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 330

7. Threshold and saturation properties of a solid-state XeF (C-A) excimer laser

   • G. Zerza
   • G. Sliwinski
   • N. Schwentner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 331 - 337

8. High gain weak pump free electron laser amplifier analysis

   • K. H. Tsui

   OriginalPaper Pages: 338 - 340

9. Evaluation of the collisionless contribution to the measured infrared multiphoton decomposition

   • G. A. McRae

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 346

10. Efficient generation of FIR radiation by optical pumping of D₂ ¹⁸O

    • P. T. Lang
    • W. Schatz
    • L. Fusina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 354

11. The effect of an autoionizing state in the double-resonant four-wave sum mixing in Hg

    • E. Koudoumas
    • T. Efthimiopoulos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 361

12. Measurement of ultraviolet femtosecond pulses using the optical kerr effect

    • H.-St. Albrecht
    • P. Heist
    • T. Schröder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 362 - 364

13. Multi-megawatt superradiant emissions from coumarin-doped sol-gel derived silica

    • D. Lo
    • J. E. Parris
    • J. L. Lawless

    OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 367

14. Influence of strong laser fields on the inverse bremsstrahlung collision frequency

    • S. Pflalzner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 368 - 372

15. Optical four-wave mixing in bulk polymers

    • G. B. Hadjichristov
    • P. P. Kircheva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 377

16. Test of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) as a compact and fast tunable stokes source in coherent anti-stokes raman spectroscopy (CARS)

    • D. Brüggemann
    • J. Hertzberg
    • G. Herziger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 378 - 380

17. The application of a raman-shifted tunable KrF excimer laser for laser-induced fluorescence combustion diagnostics

    • T. Dreier
    • A. Dreizler
    • J. Wolfrum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 387

18. High temperature O₂-CARS thermometry

    • T. Dreier
    • G. Schiff

    OriginalPaper Pages: 388 - 390

19. Formation of a knudsen layer in electronically induced desorption

    • D. Sibold
    • H. M. Urbassek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 396

20. Spectroscopy of the 689 nm intercombination line of strontium using an extended-cavity InGaP/InGaAIP diode laser

    • G. M. Tino
    • M. Barsanti
    • M. Inguscio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 400

21. Linewidth studies on the Ar⁺ 476.5 nm and 480.6 nm lines excited in a helium-agron hollow cathode discharge

    • L. Csillag
    • M. Jánossy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 404

22. Generation of radiation on yellow and infrared lines in sodium vapour excited to the 4P level

    • T. Stacewicz
    • T. Kotowski
    • P. Wiewiór

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 407