1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Quantum noise — A limit in photodetection

   • H. -A. Bachor
   • P. T. H. Fisk

   Contributed Papers Pages: 291 - 300

3. Excimer laser photolysis of molybdenum hexacarbonyl with buffer gas

   • W. Radloff
   • H. Hohmann
   • R. Paul

   Contributed Papers Pages: 301 - 305

4. The absorption of pulsed CO₂-laser radiation by ethylene at total pressures from 25 to 3000 Torr

   • L. Giroux
   • M. H. Back
   • R. A. Back

   Contributed Papers Pages: 307 - 313

5. Intracavity spectroscopy with modulated multimode lasers

   • V. M. Baev
   • J. Eschner
   • A. Weiler

   Contributed Papers Pages: 315 - 322

6. Coupled cavity modelocking of a Nd:YAG laser using second-harmonic generation

   • J. R. M. Barr
   • D. W. Hughes

   Contributed Papers Pages: 323 - 325

7. The effect of the relative position of the bandgap with respect to laser wavelength on the behaviour of DFWM in semiconductor-doped glasses

   • C. O'Neil
   • P. Galarneau
   • M. -M. Denariez-Roberge

   Contributed Papers Pages: 327 - 330

8. Compact, wide aperture X-ray preionized XeCl laser with high specific optical power

   • M. Steyer
   • K. A. Stankov
   • F. P. Schäfer

   Contributed Papers Pages: 331 - 337

9. Transients in photorefractive two-wave mixing: A numerical study

   • L. B. Au
   • L. Solymar

   Contributed Papers Pages: 339 - 342

10. Pulsed 469.4 nm hollow cathode He-Kr laser

    • M. Jánossy
    • K. Rózsa
    • N. Kroó

    Contributed Papers Pages: 343 - 347

11. 830 nm emission in sodium vapor

    • W. T. Luh
    • Yan Li
    • J. Huennekens

    Contributed Papers Pages: 349 - 359

12. Doppler-free resonances of the second-order raman scattering

    • V. P. Chebotayev
    • V. A. Ulybin

    Contributed Papers Pages: 361 - 364

13. Frequency stability of an optically pumped cesium beam frequency standard

    • V. Candelier
    • V. Giordano
    • C. Audoin

    Contributed Papers Pages: 365 - 370

14. Image transfer by modulation of short light pulses

    • M. B. Danailov
    • I. P. Christov
    • N. I. Michailov

    Contributed Papers Pages: 371 - 375

15. Experimental investigation of the MIR optically pumped ammonia bidirectional ring laser

    • P. Wazen
    • G. L. Bourdet

    Contributed Papers Pages: 377 - 381

16. On the possibility of velocity monochromatization of atomic beams below recoil velocity

    • V. I. Balykin

    Contributed Papers Pages: 383 - 388

17. Generation of more than 40 laser emission lines from the ultraviolet to the visible regions by two-color stimulated raman effect

    • T. Imasaka
    • S. Kawasaki
    • N. Ishibashi

    Contributed Papers Pages: 389 - 392

18. Laser-induced self-phase modulation in polymeric films

    • L. N. Binh
    • X. Dai
    • Y. H. Ja

    Contributed Papers Pages: 393 - 396