1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Editorial

   • Richard Wallenstein

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 345 - 345

3. Ultrafast all-solid-state laser technology

   • U. Keller

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 347 - 363

4. Scalable concept for diode-pumped high-power solid-state lasers

   • A. Giesen
   • H. Hügel
   • H. Opower

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 365 - 372

5. Spectroscopic characterization and laser performance of diode-laser-pumped Nd: GdVO₄

   • T. Jensen
   • V. G. Ostroumov
   • I. A. Shcherbakov

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 373 - 379

6. A 180 mW Nd:LaSc₃(BO₃)₄ single-frequency TEM₀₀ microchip laser pumped by an injection-locked diode-laser array

   • B. Beier
   • J. -P. Meyn
   • R. Wallenstein

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 381 - 388

7. High power continuous-wave diode-laser-pumped Nd:YAG laser

   • D. Golla
   • S. Knoke
   • H. Schmidt

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 389 - 392

8. Diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser using reflective pump optics

   • U. J. Greiner
   • H. H. Klingenberg
   • H. M. van Driel

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 393 - 395

9. Temperature dependence of efficiency and thermal lensing of diode-laser-pumped Nd:YAG lasers

   • U. Brauch

   Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 397 - 402

10. High-average-power flashlamp-pumped Nd:Glass fiber-bundle laser

    • R. Koch
    • U. Griebner
    • R. Grunwald

    Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 403 - 407

11. Cr⁴⁺:YAG as passive Q-switch for a Nd:YALO oscillator with an average repetition rate of 2.7 kHz, TEM₀₀ mode and 13 W output

    • H. J. Eichler
    • A. Haase
    • R. Menzel

    Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 409 - 411

12. Stimulated emission and laser action of Pr³⁺-doped YA1O₃

    • T. Danger
    • A. Bleckmann
    • G. Huber

    Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 413 - 420

13. Orange, red and deep-red flashlamp-pumped Pr³⁺:LiYF₄ laser with improved output energy and efficiency

    • H. J. Eichler
    • B. Liu
    • A. A. Kaminskii

    Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 421 - 424

14. Spectral properties and numerical modelling of a critically phase-matched nanosecond LiB₃O₅ Optical Parametric Oscillator

    • T. Schröder
    • K. -J. Boller
    • R. Wallenstein

    Advanced Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers Pages: 425 - 438