1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Time-resolved laser optoacoustic tomography of inhomogeneous media

   • A. Karabutov
   • N. B. Podymova
   • V. S. Letokhov

   Invited Paper Pages: 545 - 563

3. An X-ray preionised self sustained discharge HF/DF laser

   • N. Anderson
   • T. Bearpark
   • S. J. Scott

   Invited Paper Pages: 565 - 573

4. Influence of the electric field frequency on the performance of a RF excited CO₂ waveguide laser

   • V. N. Ochkin
   • W. J. Witteman
   • S. N. Tskhai

   Invited Paper Pages: 575 - 583

5. A high average power rotating hollow cylinder Nd : glass laser

   • F. Zhou
   • G. Huang
   • S. Gu

   Invited Paper Pages: 585 - 591

6. Optical properties and laser performance of neodymium doped scheelites CaWO₄ and NaGd(WO₄)₂

   • N. Faure
   • C. Borel
   • C. Wyon

   Invited paper Pages: 593 - 598

7. Holographic scattering lines observed with photorefractive BaTiO₃

   • J. Neumann
   • G. Jäkel
   • E. Krätzig

   Invited Paper Pages: 599 - 604

8. Storage of laser-induced holographic gratings in discotic liquid crystals

   • J. Contzen
   • G. Heppke
   • H. Schmid

   Invited Paper Pages: 605 - 608

9. Elastooptic investigations in functional allyl polymer lightguides

   • M. Biebricher
   • K. Pfeiffer
   • H. J. Lorkowski

   Invited Paper Pages: 609 - 615

10. Reduction of multi-photon ionization in dielectrics due to collisions

    • D. Du
    • X. Liu
    • G. Mourou

    Invited Paper Pages: 617 - 621

11. Laser induced breakdown of Ar, N₂ and O₂ gases using 1.064, 0.532, 0.355 and 0.266 μm radiation

    • Amit Sircar
    • Rajesh K. Dwivedi
    • R. K. Thareja

    Invited Paper Pages: 623 - 627

12. High nuclear polarization in³He and³He-⁴He gas mixtures by optical pumping with a laser diode

    • E. Stoltz
    • M. Meyerhoff
    • G. Tastevin

    Invited Paper Pages: 629 - 633

13. Polarization analysis of the light emitted by an optically pumped³He gas

    • Eric Stoltz
    • Bérengère Villard
    • Pierre-Jean Nacher

    Invited Paper Pages: 635 - 640

14. Dispersion of the third-order susceptibility of a cyanine dye measured by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

    • T. Johr
    • W. Werncke
    • A. Lau

    Invited Paper Pages: 641 - 647

15. Pattern generation with cesium atomic beams at nanometer scales

    • M. Kreis
    • F. Lison
    • J. Mlynek

    Rapid Communication Pages: 649 - 652