1. Efficient and compact intracavity-frequency-doubled Nd:GdVO4/KTP laser end-pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode

   • D.Y. Shen
   • H.R. Yang
   • K. Ueda

   Pages: 263 - 266

2. Passive mode locking of thin-disk lasers: effects of spatial hole burning

   • R. Paschotta
   • J. Aus der Au
   • U. Keller

   Pages: 267 - 278

3. Characterization of a high-power tapered semiconductor amplifier system

   • D. Voigt
   • E.C. Schilder
   • H.B. van Linden van den Heuvell

   Pages: 279 - 284

4. A passively Q-switched Yb:YAG microchip laser

   • G.J. Spühler
   • R. Paschotta
   • U. Keller

   Pages: 285 - 287

5. Importance of pre-ionisation for the non-chain discharge-pumped HF laser

   • B. Lacour
   • S. Pasquiers
   • V. Puech

   Pages: 289 - 299

6. Periodic poling of magnesium-oxide-doped stoichiometric lithium niobate grown by the top-seeded solution method

   • L. Huang
   • D. Hui
   • J.V. Kayser

   Pages: 301 - 306

7. Optical holographic memory using angular-rotationally phase-coded multiplexing in a LiNbO3:Fe crystal

   • C.C. Chang
   • K.L. Russell
   • G.W. Hu

   Pages: 307 - 310

8. Holographic behavior of a photopolymer at high thicknesses and high monomer concentrations: mechanism of photopolymerization

   • C. Garcıa
   • A. Fimia
   • I. Pascual

   Pages: 311 - 316

9. Effect of partial coherence on four-wave mixing in photorefractive materials via reflection grating approximation

   • J. Zhao
   • X. Yi
   • P. Yeh

   Pages: 317 - 322

10. Infrared phase-conjugate reflection by hot electron-induced optical nonlinearity in n-Ge

    • V.N. Poroshin
    • V.M. Vasetskii

    Pages: 323 - 325

11. Separation of laser-cooled 42Ca+ and 44Ca+ in a linear Paul trap

    • K. Toyoda
    • H. Kataoka
    • S. Urabe

    Pages: 327 - 330

12. Supernarrow saturated absorption resonances in weakly coupled two resonant optical cavities

    • S.N. Bagayev
    • E.A. Titov

    Pages: 331 - 335

13. Absorption measurements in dense cesium vapor using a UV–violet light-emitting diode

    • T. Ban
    • H. Skenderović
    • G. Pichler

    Pages: 337 - 341

14. Measurements of multiphoton ionization coefficients with ultrashort ultraviolet laser pulses

    • J. Schwarz
    • P. Rambo
    • J.C. Diels

    Pages: 343 - 347

15. A dense collection of two-level atoms embedded in a dielectric medium in a ring cavity

    • K.-D. Zhu

    Pages: 349 - 353

16. Opto-acoustic study of tinuvin-P and rhodamine 6G in solid polymeric matrices

    • S. Nonell
    • C. Martí
    • R. Sastre

    Pages: 355 - 360

17. Angle-dependent THz tomography – characterization of thin ceramic oxide films for fuel cell applications

    • M. Brucherseifer
    • P. Haring Bolivar
    • H. Kurz

    Pages: 361 - 366

18. Laser-induced incandescence for soot particle size and volume fraction measurements using on-line extinction calibration

    • B. Axelsson
    • R. Collin
    • P.E. Bengtsson

    Pages: 367 - 372

19. Few-cycle optical waveform synthesis

    • A. Poppe
    • R. Holzwarth
    • F. Krausz

    Rapid communication Pages: 373 - 376

20. Spatial solitons in a semiconductor microresonator

    • V.B. Taranenko
    • I. Ganne
    • C.O. Weiss

    Rapid communication Pages: 377 - 380

21. Colliding-pulse harmonically mode-locked fiber laser

    • O.G. Okhotnikov
    • M. Guina

    Rapid communication Pages: 381 - 384

22. Low-energy ion emission from a xenon gas-puff laser-plasma X-ray source

    • H. Daido
    • S. Yamagami
    • H. Fiedorowicz

    Rapid communication Pages: 385 - 387