1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Coherent light scattering spectroscopy for supersonic flow measurements

   • C. Y. She
   • H. Moosmüller
   • G. C. Herring

   Invited Paper Pages: 283 - 297

3. UV excimer radiation from dielectric-barrier discharges

   • B. Eliasson
   • U. Kogelschatz

   Contributed Papers Pages: 299 - 303

4. Subpicosecond, widely tunable distributed feedback dye laser

   • S. Szatmári
   • F. P. Schäfer

   Contributed Papers Pages: 305 - 311

5. Current-voltage characteristics of a gas field ion source

   • K. Jousten
   • K. Böhringer
   • S. Kalbitzer

   Contributed Papers Pages: 313 - 323

6. A theoretical analysis of acoustic microscopy with converging acoustic beams

   • T. Kundu

   Contributed Papers Pages: 325 - 331

7. Theoretical analysis of a Brillouin switch for amplifier decoupling and prepulse suppression in short-pulse high-power laser systems

   • K. J. Witte
   • M. A. Greiner-Mothes

   Contributed Papers Pages: 333 - 338

8. Gain and excited singlet and triplet state absorption spectra of some 9-acetoxy-10(halogenoacetoxy)phenylanthracenes

   • J. Heldt
   • J. R. Heldt
   • H. A. Diehl

   Contributed Papers Pages: 339 - 346

9. Frequency and time resolved luminescence of intermediate reaction products in ir laser decomposition of silane

   • E. Borsella
   • L. Caneve

   Contributed Papers Pages: 347 - 355

10. Steady state photoisomer accumulation in the absorber jet of the passively mode-locked femtosecond dye laser

    • S. Rentsch
    • E. Döpel
    • V. Petrov

    Contributed Papers Pages: 357 - 361

11. Picosecond phase-conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in sodium vapour

    • A. C. Cefalas
    • T. Mikropoulos
    • C. A. Nicolaides

    Contributed Papers Pages: 363 - 367