1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A6

2. Generation, stabilization, and amplification of subpicosecond pulses

   • S. R. Rotman
   • C. Roxlo
   • M. M. Salour

   Invited Paper Pages: 319 - 326

3. Reciprocity and equivalence in reciprocal and non-reciprocal media through reflection transformations of the current distributions

   • C. Altman
   • A. Schatzberg

   Contributed Papers Pages: 327 - 333

4. Harmonic mixing in a cosine potential for large damping and arbitrary field strengths

   • H. -J. Breymayer
   • H. Risken
   • W. Wonneberger

   Contributed Papers Pages: 335 - 339

5. CO₂-laser isotope separation of tritium with pentafluoroethane-T (C₂TF₅)

   • Y. Makide
   • S. Kato
   • K. Takeuchi

   Contributed Papers Pages: 341 - 348

6. Formation of blazed holographic gratings

   • L. Mashev
   • S. Tonchev

   Contributed Papers Pages: 349 - 353

7. Efficient Cr³⁺ sensitized Nd³⁺: GdScGa-garnet laser at 1.06 μm

   • D. Pruss
   • G. Huber
   • Y. V. Zharikov

   Contributed Papers Pages: 355 - 358

8. Apparent transfer function for partially coherent optical information processing

   • S. L. Zhuang
   • F. T. S. Yu

   Contributed Papers Pages: 359 - 366

9. The characteristics of multiple-photon absorption of SF₆ molecules cooled in free jet expansion from a pulsed supersonic nozzle

   • V. M. Apatin
   • G. N. Makarov

   Contributed Papers Pages: 367 - 372

10. Origin of laser-output noise of cataphoretic HeSe⁺ lasers

    • M. Neiger
    • H. -P. Popp
    • E. Schmidt

    Contributed Papers Pages: 373 - 381

11. Bragg diffraction of gaussian beams by thick gratings: Numerical evaluations by plane-wave decomposition

    • B. Benlarbi
    • P. St. J. Russell
    • L. Solymar

    Contributed Papers Pages: 383 - 390