1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Improved gain for the Ar ₂ ^* excimer laser at 126 nm

   • S. Neeser
   • M. Schumann
   • H. Langhoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 105

3. Effects of an ultrashort prepulse on soft X-ray generation from an aluminium plasma produced by femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser pulses

   • H. Nakano
   • T. Nishikawa
   • N. Uesugi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 111

4. Prepulse dependence ofJ=0−1 lasing at 32.6 nm in neon-like titanium

   • A. R. Prüg
   • A. Glinz
   • E. E. Fill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 116

5. Grating feedback in a 810 nm broad-area diode laser

   • A. C. Fey-den Boer
   • K. A. H. van Leeuwen
   • F. S. Pavone

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 120

6. Generation of high-order rotational lines by four-wave Raman mixing using a high-power picosecond Ti:Sapphire laser

   • H. Kawano
   • C. H. Lin
   • T. Imasaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 124

7. Study of anomalous lasing behavior on the twoJ=0−1 transitions in Ne-like V

   • Y. L. Li
   • G. Pretzler
   • J. Nilsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

8. Side-pumped fiber laser

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

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 134

9. Mixing of 30 THz laser radiation with nanometer thin-film Ni-NiO-Ni diodes and integrated bow-tie antennas

   • C. Fumeaux
   • W. Herrmann
   • F. K. Kneubühl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 140

10. Highly efficient difference-frequency generation in KTP

    • G. C. Bhar
    • A. M. Rudra
    • Y. Mori

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 144

11. Parallel guiding of signal beams by a ring dark soliton

    • A. Dreischuh
    • V. Kamenov
    • S. Dinev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 150

12. New photopolymer with trifunctional monomer for holographic applications

    • A. Fimia
    • F. Mateos
    • R. Sastre

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 153

13. Optical bistability by nonlinear reflection in a polymeric blend

    • U. Bernini
    • L. De Stefano
    • P. Russo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 159

14. Two orthogonally polarized optical beams in a family of Kerr-law nonlinear shifted parabolic graded-index rod lenses

    • Y. Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 166

15. Multi-line fluorescence imaging of the rotational temperature field in a shock-tunnel free jet

    • J. L. Palmer
    • B. K. McMillin
    • R. K. Hanson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 178

16. Absolute intensity measurement of aυ ₃ ozone line at saturated vapor pressure with a laser heterodyne spectrometer

    • V. Zéninari
    • M. R. De Backer
    • D. Courtois

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 183

17. Trace pollutants analysis in soil by a time-resolved laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy technique

    • A. Ciucci
    • V. Palleschi
    • H. J. L. van der Steen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 190

18. Photoacoustic soot sensor for in-situ black carbon monitoring

    • A. Petzold
    • R. Niessner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 197

19. Tunable no-tracking OPO-OPA tandem in the near-infrared pumped by a Ti:Sapphire laser

    • B. Vezin
    • M. Douard
    • J. P. Wolf

    Rapid Communication Pages: 199 - 201

20. Nanolithography with metastabile helium

    • S. Nowak
    • T. Pfau
    • J. Mlynek

    Rapid Communication Pages: 203 - 205

21. Scattering reduction for highly diffractive holograms in LiNbO₃ crystals

    • P. M. Garcia
    • A. A. Freschi
    • E. Krätzig

    Rapid Communication Pages: 207 - 208