1. High repetition rate spiker-sustainer XeCl laser

   • N. Bernard
   • Th. Hofmann
   • B. M. Forestier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 435

2. Diode-pumped colour-centre lasers tunable in the 1.5 µm range

   • A. Konaté
   • J. L. Doualan
   • R. Vicquelin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 442

3. Effect of Tm concentration on the tunability of the YLF laser in the 1.9 µm region

   • A. Di Lieto
   • P. Minguzzi
   • H. P. Jenssen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 447

4. A time-compensated spectral filter for transform-limited tunable picosecond pulse generation from spectro-temporal-selection dye lasers

   • N. D. Hung
   • Y. Segawa
   • L. H. Hai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 455

5. The relaxation oscillator as a resonance photon detector

   • G. A. Petrucci
   • J. D. Winefordner
   • N. Omenetto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 464

6. Birth and evolution of wave-front dislocations in a laser beam passed through a photorefractive LiNbO₃: Fe crystal

   • A. V. Ilyenkov
   • A. I. Khiznyak
   • M. V. Vasnetsov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 471

7. Time-dependent thermal lensing and Kerr nonlinearity in CS₂ with CO₂-laser radiation

   • M. O. Baumgartner
   • D. P. Scherrer
   • F. K. Kneubühl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 477

8. Design of a compact blue-green stimulated hydrogen Raman shifter

   • K. Sentrayan
   • A. Michael
   • V. Kushawaha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 479 - 483

9. Polarization effects on the line-strength calculations of Er³⁺-doped LiNbO₃

   • L. Núñez
   • G. Lifante
   • F. Cussó

   OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 491

10. Photothermal measurement of thermal anisotropy in pyrolytic graphite

    • J. Hartmann
    • P. Voigt
    • E. Matthias

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 497

11. Optical studies on free-standing polypyrrole films by the photopyroelectric method

    • R. Turcu
    • M. Brie
    • S. Pruneanu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 502

12. Imaging and analysis of photomechanical effects induced in water by high-power laser-target interaction

    • S. Siano
    • R. Pini
    • M. Vannini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 510

13. Isotope separation by nonlinear resonances in a Paul trap

    • R. Alheit
    • K. Enders
    • G. Werth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 511 - 513

14. Measurements of²³⁵U/²³⁸U isotopic ratio in the photoproduct UF₅ by multiphoton ionization and time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    • Y. Okada
    • S. Kato
    • K. Takeuchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 519

15. Shot-by-shot frequency calibration of CARS spectra: Application to the measurement of the collisional line shift in oxygen

    • G. Fanjoux
    • R. Chaux
    • G. Millot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 525

16. 80 A/cm² electron beams from metal targets irradiated by KrCl and XeCl excimer lasers

    • A. Beloglazov
    • M. Martino
    • V. Nassisi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 532

17. Efficiency of diode-pumped 1.35µm laser from Nd:KGW

    • V. Kushawaha
    • Y. Yan
    • Y. Chen

    Rapid Communication Pages: 533 - 535