1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Optical four-wave mixing in epitaxial narrow-gap semiconductor films

   • H. Pascher

   Invited Paper Pages: 107 - 122

3. Analysis of temporal pulse development in passively mode-locked lasers

   • F. Graf
   • G. Pleininger
   • A. Penzkofer

   Contributed Papers Pages: 123 - 128

4. Transient orientational grating technique for investigations of fast molecular relaxation processes

   • D. Kühlke

   Contributed Papers Pages: 129 - 137

5. Ellipsometry on magnetooptic thin film multilayer systems

   • J. Kranz
   • Ch. Schrödter

   Contributed Papers Pages: 139 - 143

6. Travelling-wave-pumped ultrashort-pulse distributed-feedback dye laser

   • G. Szabó
   • B. Rácz
   • Zs. Bor

   Contributed Papers Pages: 145 - 147

7. Determination of the rotational temperature and the molecular density in an expanding NH₃ jet by infrared absorption

   • K. Veeken
   • J. Reuss

   Contributed Papers Pages: 149 - 159

8. Dynamics of a three-level atom in a resonant light field

   • V. G. Minogin
   • Yu. V. Rozhdestvensky

   Contributed Papers Pages: 161 - 166

9. Saturation spectroscopy of coherent raman scattering in molecular gases

   • V. N. Zadkov
   • N. I. Koroteev
   • A. B. Feodorov

   Contributed Papers Pages: 167 - 170

10. Ninth-order nonlinear polarization and vuv generation in Hg vapor

    • V. F. Lukinykh
    • S. A. Myslivets
    • V. V. Slabko

    Contributed Papers Pages: 171 - 173