1. Forthcoming Papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Quantitative CARS spectroscopy of the ν₁ band of water vapour

   • F. M. Porter
   • D. R. Williams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 108

3. 2D single-shot imaging of OH radicals using tunable excimer lasers

   • W. Ketterle
   • M. Schäfer
   • J. Wolfrum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 112

4. Calculation of the carrier-induced refractive index change in InSb

   • P. P. Paskov
   • L. I. Pavlov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 118

5. Observation of new laser transitions and saturation effects in optically pumped NO

   • S. M. Hooker
   • A. M. Haxell
   • C. E. Webb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 125

6. Improved frequency stability of the ammonia laser

   • K. J. Siemsen
   • A. A. Madej
   • J. Reid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 126 - 131

7. Investigation of the population inversion in a He-Ne laser discharge by heterodyne holographic interferometry

   • J. Woisetschläger
   • H. Jäger
   • K. Widmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 135

8. Numerical analysis of pulse formation in solid-state lasers mode-locked with a linear external cavity

   • M. Müller
   • U. Stamm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 136 - 143

9. Lifetime measurements of metastable states of Au, Bi, Cd, Mg, Pb, and Sr in an acetylene/air flame by laser-enhanced ionization spectrometry

   • O. Axner
   • P. Ljungberg
   • Y. Malmsten

   OriginalPaper Pages: 144 - 155

10. Instabilities in coupled photorefractive ring cavities and self-pumped phase conjugators

    • L. -K. Dai
    • Y. -S. Gou
    • P. Yeh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 166

11. Nonlinear directional coupler based on Rb:KTP-waveguides

    • K. S. Buritskii
    • E. M. Dianov
    • E. A. Scherbakov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 169

12. Frequency dependence of third harmonic generation in polyacetylene

    • X. Sun
    • K. Nasu
    • C. Q. Wu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 170 - 174

13. Long-range interaction of picosecond solitons through excitation of acoustic waves in optical fibers

    • E. M. Dianov
    • A. V. Luchnikov
    • A. M. Prokhorov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 180

14. Third order nonlinear optical properties of some organic nitroxyls

    • Q. Gong
    • Z. Xia
    • D. Zhu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 183

15. Some characteristics of resonant electromagnetic modes in a dielectric sphere

    • V. V. Datsyuk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 184 - 187