1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Bright thermal atomic beams by laser cooling: A 1400-fold gain in beam flux

   • M. D. Hoogerland
   • J. P. J. Driessen
   • K. A. H. van Leeuwen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 327

3. Macroscopic enrichment of¹²C by a high-power mechanically Q-switched CO₂ laser

   • J. Göthel
   • M. Ivanenko
   • K. L. Kompa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 332

4. Tunable frequency-controlled laser source in the near ultraviolet based on doubling of a semiconductor diode laser

   • M. de Angelis
   • G. M. Tino
   • C. Zimmermann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 338

5. Excited-state absorption in Er: BaY₂F₈ and Cs₃Er₂Br₉ and comparison with Er: LiYF₄

   • M. Pollnau
   • W. Lüthy
   • R. A. McFarlane

   OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 344

6. Spectroscopic and fluorescence properties of erbium pentaphosphate (ErP₅O₁₄) monocrystals

   • F. Kaczmarek
   • A. Jendrzejczak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 356

7. Performance studies of a pulsed HF laser with a sliding discharge plasma cathode

   • G. N. Tsikrikas
   • A. A. Serafetinides
   • A. D. Papayannis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 365

8. Longitudinal structure formation in a nonlinear resonator

   • G. Steinmeyer
   • F. Mitschke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 374

9. On the pulse width of synchronously pumped lasers

   • F. Mitschke
   • U. Morgner
   • G. Steinmeyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 379

10. Dynamic study of gated saturable absorbers

    • G. Vavra
    • S. Szatmári
    • M. Feuerhake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 387

11. Split-step fourier methods applied to model nonlinear refractive effects in optically thick media

    • J. M. Burzler
    • S. Hughes
    • B. S. Wherrett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 397

12. A method for the evaluation of the grating envelope in volume holographic media

    • H. Okamura
    • K. Kuroda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 405

13. Gas-phase velocimetry by nearly degenerate four-wave mixing

    • P. M. Danehy
    • R. L. Farrow

    OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 413

14. Laser-induced breakdown of krypton near five-photon ionization threshold

    • V. E. Peet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 420

15. Origin and manifestation of the anharmonic potential felt by an ion-cloud in an actual Paul trap

    • X. Luo
    • X. Zhu
    • J. Xu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 426

16. Second-order Zeeman effect of theX−B transition in molecular iodine

    • A. N. Goncharov
    • A. Yu. Nevsky
    • M. N. Skvortsov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 430