1. Nikolai Koroteev

   Obituary 10 April 2014 Pages: 149 - 149

2. Solitons and vortices in lasers

   • C.O. Weiss
   • M. Vaupel
   • V.B. Taranenko

   Invited paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 151 - 168

3. High-peak-power femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser system

   • T. Togashi
   • Y. Nabekawa
   • S. Watanabe

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 169 - 175

4. Periodically poled RbTiOAsO4 femtosecond optical parametric oscillator tunable from 1.38 to 1.58 μm

   • P. Loza-Alvarez
   • D.T. Reid
   • F. Laurell

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 177 - 180

5. Laser emission under flashlamp pumping of a new crystal: Nd-doped strontium-lanthanum-aluminate (Nd:ASL)

   • O. Musset
   • L. Fouquin
   • J.P. Boquillon

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 181 - 185

6. Crystalline structure and optical spectroscopy of Er3+-doped KGd(WO4)2 single crystals

   • M.C. Pujol
   • M. Rico
   • F. Díaz

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 187 - 197

7. Spectroscopic characterization of a Tm3+:SrGdGa3O7 crystal

   • W. Ryba-Romanowski
   • S. Gołvab
   • M. Baba

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 199 - 205

8. Electric-field modulation measurements of complex electro-optic effects in poled polymer

   • H. Ono
   • T. Kikuchi
   • Y. Harato

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 207 - 210

9. Different temperature dependences of photorefractive parameters of Ce-doped and Rh-doped BaTiO3

   • M. Chi
   • S.X. Dou
   • P. Ye

   Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 211 - 215

10. A new polymeric material for optical switching

    • Y. Huang
    • Z. Sun
    • Z. Wang

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 217 - 220

11. Incoherent-to-coherent optical conversion by means of azobenzene liquid-crystalline films

    • C. Wang
    • H. Fei
    • Y. Yang

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 221 - 224

12. Resonant absorption and scattering in evanescent fields

    • R. Wannemacher
    • A. Pack
    • M. Quinten

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 225 - 232

13. Luminescence and damage thresholds of cerium-doped LaF3 for ns-pulsed laser excitation at 248 nm

    • R. Lindner
    • M. Reichling
    • H. Johansen

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 233 - 241

14. High-resolution cavity leak-out absorption spectroscopy in the 10-μm region

    • M. Mürtz
    • B. Frech
    • W. Urban

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 243 - 249

15. Simultaneous visualisation of transient species in flames by planar-laser-induced fluorescence using a single laser system

    • R. Bombach
    • B. Käppeli

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 251 - 255

16. Multiplex CARS measurements in supersonic H2/air combustion

    • S.-R. Yang
    • J.-R. Zhao
    • G. Yu

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 257 - 265

17. Detection of HCl on the first and second overtone using semiconductor diode lasers at 1.7 μm and 1.2 μm

    • C. Corsi
    • M. Inguscio
    • M. De Rosa

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 267 - 269

18. Energy balance of optical breakdown in water at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales

    • A. Vogel
    • J. Noack
    • R. Birngruber

    Regular paper 10 April 2014 Pages: 271 - 280

19. Feedback-controlled optimization of amplified femtosecond laser pulses

    • T. Brixner
    • M. Strehle
    • G. Gerber

    Rapid communication 10 April 2014 Pages: 281 - 284

20. Erratum to: Appl. Phys. B 67, 235–239 (1998)

    • M. Yan
    • X. Luo
    • X. Luo

    Erratum 10 April 2014 Pages: 285 - 285