1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Three-photon absorption and its limitation of third-order nonlinear optical effects in rutile

   • P. Sathy
   • A. Penzkofer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 134

3. Single-valued determination of second-order nonlinear susceptibilities by quarter-wave-plate rotation

   • F. Geiger
   • R. Stolle
   • B. U. Felderhof

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 141

4. Optical-to-microwave frequency chain utilizing a two-laser-based optical parametric oscillator network

   • N. C. Wong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 149

5. Infrared excited-state absorption and stimulated-emission cross sections of Er³⁺-doped crystals

   • J. Koetke
   • G. Huber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 158

6. Dynamics of a single particle in a Paul trap in the presence of the damping force

   • T. Hasegawa
   • K. Uehara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 163

7. Thomson-scattering diagnostics of Kr/Ne and Kr/He plasmas using a picosecond laser

   • K. Uchino
   • T. Kubo
   • M. Kato

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 168

8. CO-laser side-band spectrometer: Sub-Doppler heterodyne frequency measurements around 5 µm

   • B. Meyer
   • S. Saupe
   • J. Legrand

   OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 173

9. Experimental verification of a zero-dimensional model of the kinetics of XeCl^* discharges by XeCl^*(B)-, XeCl^*(C)-, and Xe₂Cl^*-density measurements

   • A. Schwabedissen
   • D. Loffhagen
   • W. Bötticher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 186

10. Nonlinear optical laser devices using GaSe

    • G. C. Bhar
    • S. Das
    • K. L. Vodopyanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 190

11. Experimental studies of the second-order nonlinear optical response of a novel class of tricyanovinylated thiophene compounds

    • K. Y. Wong
    • A. K. -Y. Jen
    • K. J. Drost

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 194

12. Diode-pumped Tm: YAG solid-state lasers with indirect and direct manifold pumping

    • P. Peterson
    • A. Gavrielides
    • M. P. Sharma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 200

13. CARS thermometry in a transversely heated graphite-tube atomizer used in atomic absorption spectrometry

    • J. Hertzberg
    • D. Kozlov
    • G. Marowsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 205

14. Characterization of the KNSBN: Cu crystal with two-wave coupling at visible and infrared wavelengths

    • H. Zhang
    • B. Guo
    • L. Yan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 211

15. High-efficiency multicolour Q-switched Nd³⁺:KGd(WO₄)₂ laser

    • K. A. Stankov
    • G. Marowsky

    Rapid Communications Pages: 213 - 215

16. Energy distribution of photoelectrons generated from highly charged ions in a circularly polarized intense laser field

    • A. Sagisaka
    • Y. Nabekawa
    • S. Watanabe

    Rapid Communications Pages: 217 - 221