1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Announcing a special issue of applied physics B on SODAR monitoring of the atmosphere - Recent developments

   Announcement Pages: A6 - A6

3. Dynamics of a phase conjugate resonator: Transient build-up and decay rates

   • S. R. Liu
   • G. Indebetouw

   OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 258

4. Auto-prepulse operation of a long-pulse XeCl laser

   • M. A. Franceschini
   • R. Pini
   • M. Vannini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 264

5. Second-harmonic power of KTiOPO₄ with double refraction

   • K. Asaumi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 270

6. Degenerate four-wave mixing in nitrogen dioxide: Application to combustion diagnostics

   • B. A. Mann
   • S. V. O'Leary
   • D. A. Greenhalgh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 277

7. Study of a carbon dioxide ring laser gyroscope

   • M. L. Dennis
   • J.-C. Diels
   • M. Mohebi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 278 - 287

8. Axially phase-matched parametric four- and six-wave mixing in potassium vapor

   • Mao-hong Lu
   • Yu-mei Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 288 - 294

9. Small volume coaxial discharge as precision testbed for 0D-models of XeCl lasers

   • W. Bötticher
   • H. Lück
   • A. Schwabedissen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 302

10. Compensation of group-velocity mismatch in the frequency-doubling modelocker

    • K. A. Stankov
    • V. P. Tzolov
    • M. G. Mirkov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 306

11. Output power enhancement of the 632.8 nm monomode He-Ne/I₂-laser

    • St. St. Cartaleva
    • S. V. Gateva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 308

12. Time-resolved spectroscopy of the fluorescence quenching of a donor — acceptor pair by halothane

    • A. Sharma
    • S. Draxler
    • M. E. Lippitsch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 312

13. Mirrorless parametric oscillation in BaTiO₃

    • S. Odoulov
    • U. van Olfen
    • E. Krätzig

    Rapid Communication Pages: 313 - 316

14. Comment on four-wave mixing in CO via the C ¹Σ⁺(v′=0) state

    • A. Le Floch

    Rapid Communication Pages: 317 - 318