1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Preionization and discharge stability study of long optical pulse duration UV-preionized XeCl lasers

   • R. S. Taylor

   Invited Paper Pages: 1 - 24

3. Undamped relaxation oscillations due to self-gain-switching of laser dye mixtures

   • N. P. Ernsting
   • B. Nikolaus

   Contributed Papers Pages: 25 - 30

4. Performance improvement of an x-ray preionized XeCl laser of very small discharge volume

   • Cheng-En Zheng
   • Dennis Lo
   • Shao-Chi Lin

   Contributed Papers Pages: 31 - 37

5. Collinear nondegenerate four-wave mixing by a three-level system

   • I. Golub
   • R. Shuker
   • G. Erez

   Contributed Papers Pages: 39 - 41

6. A waveguide reactor for IR multiphoton dissociation and its application to¹³C laser isotope separation

   • H. Kojima
   • K. Uchida
   • Y. Takagi

   Contributed Papers Pages: 43 - 48

7. Single picosecond UV pulse generation by mode-locking of an excimer laser-pumped dye laser

   • M. Watanabe
   • A. Endoh
   • S. Watanabe

   Contributed Papers Pages: 49 - 52

8. Passive mode locking of the continuous wave DCM dye laser

   • P. M. W. French
   • J. R. Taylor

   Contributed Papers Pages: 53 - 55

9. Further investigations on ir pumping of CH₃OD and CD₃OD by a cw CO₂ laser

   • M. Fourrier
   • A. Kreisler

   Contributed Papers Pages: 57 - 60

10. Infrared multiphoton dissociation of¹³CF₃Cl induced by CO₂ laser pulses

    • M. Nève de Mévergnies

    Contributed Papers Pages: 61 - 68

11. Optical harmonic generation in media with positive dispersion

    • R. A. Ganeev
    • V. V. Gorbushin
    • T. Usmanov

    Contributed Papers Pages: 69 - 71