1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Basic concepts

   Announcement Pages: A6 - A6

3. Chaos In Nonlinear Optics

   • Fedor Mitschke

   Editorial Pages: 103 - 103

4. Phase dynamics of a detuned single-mode laser

   • D. Y. Tang
   • C. O. Weiss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 108

5. Computational chaos in nonlinear optics

   • M. Belić
   • Z. Ljuboje
   • F. Kaiser

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 116

6. Elimination of variables in simple laser equations

   • C. Z. Ning
   • H. Haken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 120

7. On the detection of deterministic structures in irregular signals

   • M. Dämmig
   • C. Boden
   • F. Mitschke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 125

8. Measuring chaotic scenarios in a sodium-filled resonator

   • M. Möller
   • W. Lange

   OriginalPaper Pages: 126 - 131

9. Bifurcation structures into chaos of delay-differential equations for a passive optical ring resonator

   • Ch. Häger
   • F. Kaiser

   OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 137

10. Spatial symmetry breaking and coexistence of attractors in a nonlinear ring cavity

    • M. Sauer
    • F. Kaiser

    OriginalPaper Pages: 138 - 143

11. Upconversion in YAlO₃:Er pumped at 800 nm

    • Th. Weber
    • W. Lüthy
    • H. P. Weber

    Contributed Papers Pages: 144 - 148

12. Initial spring temperature profiles of the mesopause region over Fort Collins, CO, measured by the Colorado State Na temperature lidar

    • J. R. Yu
    • J. W. Huang
    • C. Y. She

    Contributed Papers Pages: 149 - 153

13. High-spectral-resolution rayleigh-mie lidar measurement of vertical aerosol and atmospheric profiles

    • C. Y. She
    • R. J. Alvarez II
    • D. A. Krueger

    Contributed Papers Pages: 154 - 158

14. Arrival of Pinatubo disturbances in the stratospheric aerosol layer over Fort Collins, CO, observed by a lidar at 589 nm

    • H. Chen
    • J. R. Yu
    • C. Y. She

    Contributed Papers Pages: 159 - 163

15. Laser-induced fluorescence imaging in a 100 kW natural gas flame

    • M. Versluis
    • M. Boogaarts
    • G. Meijer

    Contributed Papers Pages: 164 - 170

16. Cavity-taper output nitrogen laser

    • I. G. Koprinkov
    • T. G. Kortenski
    • I. K. Ilev

    Contributed Papers Pages: 171 - 176

17. Laser photoelectron microspectroscopy for imaging impurity ions, color centers, and small-size irregularities in dielectric media

    • V. S. Letokhov
    • S. K. Sekatskii

    Contributed Papers Pages: 177 - 179

18. The effect of a high external electric field on a photorefractive ring phase conjugator

    • W. Krolikowski
    • B. Luther-Davies

    Rapid Communications Pages: 180 - 182

19. High-efficiency, high-energy performance of a pulsed HF laser pumped by phototriggered discharge

    • V. Puech
    • P. Prigent
    • H. Brunet

    Rapid Communications Pages: 183 - 185

20. Frequency of lamb-dip-stabilized 1.52 μm He-Ne lasers

    • H. Sasada
    • O. Kubota

    Rapid Communications Pages: 186 - 188