1. Remote sensing of volcanic gases with a DFB-laser-based fiber spectrometer

   • L. Gianfrani
   • P. De Natale
   • G. De Natale

   Rapid communication Pages: 467 - 470

2. Measurement of the electro-optic coefficients: description and comparison of the experimental techniques

   • M. Aillerie
   • N. Théofanous
   • M.D. Fontana

   Invited paper Pages: 317 - 334

3. Hexagonal microlasers based on organic dyes in nanoporous crystals

   • I. Braun
   • G. Ihlein
   • D. Wöhrle

   Pages: 335 - 343

4. Tm,Ho:YLF microchip laser under Ti:sapphire and diode pumping

   • G.L. Bourdet
   • R.A. Muller

   Pages: 345 - 349

5. Efficient cw sodium dimer Raman laser operation in a high-temperature sapphire cell

   • D. Sarkisyan
   • U. Hinze
   • B. Wellegehausen

   Pages: 351 - 354

6. Thermal loss mechanism in the generation of multifrequency laser emission via stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave Raman mixing studied by photothermal refraction spectroscopy

   • Y. Hirakawa
   • T. Tomooka
   • T. Imasaka

   Pages: 355 - 359

7. Influence of a feedback coupling on operating characteristics of a Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 laser using an end-coupled fiber grating

   • H. Parhat
   • N.J. Vasa
   • O. Uchino

   Pages: 361 - 366

8. Laser performance of pyrromethene 567 dye in solid matrices of methyl methacrylate with different comonomers

   • A. Costela
   • I. García-Moreno
   • R. Sastre

   Pages: 367 - 373

9. A femtosecond self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with high stability of pulse-repetition frequency and its applications

   • S.N. Bagayev
   • S.V. Chepurov
   • V.F. Zakharyash

   Pages: 375 - 378

10. Photorefractive fixed optical correlator

    • E.M. de Miguel-Sanz
    • M. Tebaldi
    • L. Arizmendi

    Pages: 379 - 383

11. Nonlinear refraction of undoped and Fe-doped KTiOAsO4 crystals in the femtosecond regime

    • H.P. Li
    • C.H. Kam
    • W. Ji

    Pages: 385 - 388

12. Pulse width measurement of high-order harmonics by autocorrelation

    • Y. Kobayashi
    • T. Ohno
    • S. Watanabe

    Pages: 389 - 394

13. Imaging a tunneling ionization front by using a schlieren method

    • H. Honda
    • K. Katsura
    • K. Kondo

    Pages: 395 - 398

14. Intensity enhancement of the C5+ Balmer radiation excited by capillary discharge pumping

    • T. Boboc
    • F. Weigand
    • H. Langhoff

    Pages: 399 - 405

15. Nonlinear spectroscopy with a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)

    • C. Affolderbach
    • A. Nagel
    • R. Wynands

    Pages: 407 - 413

16. Quantum key distribution using different-frequency photons

    • B.-S. Shi
    • Y.-K. Jiang
    • G.-C. Guo

    Pages: 415 - 417

17. Raman scattering measurements of molecular hydrogen in a low-density, arc-heated plasma

    • D.R. Beattie
    • M.A. Cappelli

    Pages: 419 - 427

18. Experimental investigation of optical limiting and thermal lensing in toluene solutions of C70

    • C.V. Bindhu
    • S.S. Harilal
    • C.P.G. Vallabhan

    Pages: 429 - 434

19. Temperature measurement in fuel-rich non-sooting low-pressure hydrocarbon flames

    • A.T. Hartlieb
    • B. Atakan
    • K. Kohse-Höinghaus

    Pages: 435 - 445

20. Hydrogen CARS thermometry in H2–N2 mixtures at high pressure and medium temperatures: influence of linewidths models

    • J. Hussong
    • W. Stricker
    • H. Berger

    Pages: 447 - 454

21. Magnetic trapping of metastable helium atoms

    • S. Nowak
    • A. Browaeys
    • A. Aspect

    Rapid communication Pages: 455 - 457

22. Phase-dependent ionization in the barrier suppression regime

    • I.P. Christov

    Rapid communication Pages: 459 - 462

23. Gas-phase velocity field measurements in dense sprays by laser-based flow tagging

    • S. Krüger
    • G. Grünefeld

    Rapid communication Pages: 463 - 466