1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Call for papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A6

3. X-ray lasers

   • E. E. Fill

   Editorial Pages: 301 - 301

4. Amplification in Ni-like Nb at 204.2 Å pumped by a table-top laser

   • S. Basu
   • P. L. Hagelstein
   • S. Kaushik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 307

5. First observation of lasing at 231 Å in neon-like nickel using the prepulse technique

   • J. Nilsen
   • J. C. Moreno
   • J. A. Koch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 311

6. Lasing near 200 Å with neon-like zinc and lithium-like sulfur

   • P. Jaeglé
   • A. Carillon
   • P. Zeitoun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 318

7. Studies of recombination X-ray-laser gain and gain-medium uniformity

   • Zhi-zhan Xu
   • Zheng-quan Zhang
   • Xian-ping Feng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 323

8. Ti-pumped Mo X-ray laser at 24 Å

   • P. A. Loboda
   • V. A. Lykov
   • J. Nilsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 329

9. Application of a newly developed CCD for spectral-width measurements of a 53 eV germanium laser

   • H. Tsunemi
   • S. Nomoto
   • H. Daido

   OriginalPaper Pages: 331 - 336

10. Multiphoton-induced X-ray emission and amplification from clusters

    • A. McPherson
    • T. S. Luk
    • C. K. Rhodes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 347

11. Numerical study of active mode locking in pulsed solid-state lasers

    • H. J. Eichler
    • I. Koltchanov
    • B. Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 357

12. Theory of passive mode locking of colour-center lasers by a fast saturable absorber

    • V. Petrov
    • F. Seifert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 366

13. Laser cooling of a single Ca⁺ ion: Observation of quantum jumps

    • S. Urabe
    • K. Hayasaka
    • R. Hayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 371