1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: A5 - A5

2. Lasers, spectroscopy and new ideas

   Announcement Pages: A6 - A6

3. Generation of powerful one-picosecond dye laser pulses at two independently tunable wavelengths

   • Nguyen Dai Hung
   • Y. H. Meyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 70

4. Absolute concentrations of light impurity ions in tokamak discharges measured with lithium-beam-activated charge-exchange spectroscopy

   • R. P. Schorn
   • E. Hintz
   • H. Winter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 78

5. Continuous wave field ionization laser spectroscopy

   • R. Hergenröder
   • K. Niemax

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 83

6. Coherent raman spectroscopy of nitrogen molecules and clusters in supersonic jets

   • H.-D. Barth
   • F. Huisken
   • A. A. Ilyukhin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 84 - 89

7. Linewidth studies on the Kr⁺ 469.4 nm and 473.9 nm lines excited in a helium-krypton hollow cathode discharge

   • L. Csillag
   • M. Jánossy
   • K. Rózsa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 90 - 95

8. Nonlinear mirror based on raman interactions

   • K. A. Stankov
   • V. P. Tzolov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 96 - 101

9. Resonance-enhanced multiple-photon ionisation spectroscopy of excited sulphur atoms

   • T. V. Venkitachalam
   • A. S. Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 107

10. Nitrogen atom detection in low-pressure flames by two-photon laser-excited fluorescence

    • J. Bittner
    • A. Lawitzki
    • K. Kohse-Höinghaus

    OriginalPaper Pages: 108 - 116

11. Generation of 49 fs pulses in a CPM laser pumped by a small-frame Ar⁺ laser

    • P. Mataloni
    • M. Santosuosso
    • S. Bollanti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 121

12. Polarization of emission spectra from Ti³⁺-Doped oxide crystals

    • M. Yamaga
    • B. Henderson
    • K. P. O'Donnell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 122 - 131

13. Calculation of the signal time-profile in transient CARS experiments

    • R. Torre
    • R. Righini
    • L. Angeloni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 137

14. The decomposition of ethylene by pulsed CO₂ laser radiation at pressures from 500 to 3000 torr and the use of the 2 C₂H₄⇄cyclobutane equilibrium as an internal thermometer

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

    OriginalPaper Pages: 138 - 149

15. Optical bistability in the semilinear phase-conjugate mirror

    • Wiesław Królikowski
    • Mark Cronin-Golomb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 150 - 153