1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Design of an optoacoustic cell for laser-Stark spectroscopy

   • A. Di Lieto
   • P. Minguzzi
   • M. Tonelli

   Contributed Papers Pages: 1 - 3

3. A one-wavelength, in situ alignment method for rotating analyser ellipsometers

   • C. Wijers

   Contributed Papers Pages: 5 - 8

4. Ultrashort pulse generation by distributed feedback dye lasers. I

   • Zs. Bor
   • Alexander Müller
   • F. P. Schäfer

   Contributed Papers Pages: 9 - 14

5. On a free-electron-laser in a uniform magnetic field. A solution for arbitrarily strong electromagnetic radiation fields

   • Y. Gell
   • J. R. Torstensson
   • B. Levush

   Contributed Papers Pages: 15 - 18

6. Observation and assignment of submillimetre laser lines from CH₃OH pumped by isotopic CO₂ lasers

   • J. C. Petersen
   • G. Duxbury

   Contributed Papers Pages: 19 - 25

7. Theory of the synchronously pumped picosecond dye laser

   • J. Herrmann
   • U. Motschmann

   Contributed Papers Pages: 27 - 37

8. Optimization of the optothermal detector for absorption spectroscopy in the low pressure range

   • C. Hartung
   • R. Jurgeit

   Contributed Papers Pages: 39 - 42

9. Application of a CW helium neon laser for measurement of gaseous hydrogen fluoride concentration

   • J. E. Eberhardt
   • A. W. Pryor

   Contributed Papers Pages: 43 - 47

10. The He/Cl₂ laser at 258 nm

    • E. Schätzlein
    • W. Walter
    • H. Langhoff

    Contributed Papers Pages: 49 - 55

11. Stepwise photoionization of complex organic molecules in the gas phase induced by UV laser radiation

    • G. A. Abakumov
    • B. I. Polyakov
    • V. T. Yaroslavtzev

    Contributed Papers Pages: 57 - 61

12. Unidirectional Doppler-free gain and generation in optically pumped lasers

    • A. K. Popov
    • V. M. Shalaev

    Contributed Papers Pages: 63 - 67