1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Magnetic-spiker excitation of gas-discharge lasers

   • R. S. Taylor
   • K. E. Leopold

   Invited Paper Pages: 479 - 508

3. Lifetimes, population and deactivation mechanisms of theC ¹ ∏ _u , 2³ ∏ _g and 2¹∑ _u ⁺ states of Na₂

   • E. Mehdizadeh
   • K. Ahmed
   • W. Demtröder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 515

4. Current state-of-the-art of LIDAR inversion methods for atmospheres of arbitrary optical density

   • W. Krichbaumer
   • Ch. Werner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 523

5. Nonlinear emission in sodium vapour upon pulsed-laser excitation of the 4² P levels

   • U. Domiaty
   • D. Gruber
   • R. -H. Rinkleff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 531

6. Gas-discharge XeF* (B→X) laser with high specific output energy

   • P. J. M. Peters
   • M. Trentelman
   • W. J. Witteman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 535

7. Second-order susceptibility determination by Fourier analysis

   • O. Roders
   • O. Befort
   • A. Bratz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 537 - 541

8. Detection of atomic oxygen in flames by absorption spectroscopy

   • S. Cheskis
   • S. A. Kovalenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 546

9. Cat's-eye reflectron

   • E. V. Moskovets
   • V. S. Letokhov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 552

10. Calculation of shear angles in holographic gratings recorded in bleached silver-halide emulsions

    • A. Beléndez
    • I. Pascual
    • A. Fimia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 561