1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Picosecond dye laser emission in the infrared between 1.4 and 1.8 μm

   • H. J. Polland
   • T. Elsaesser
   • K. H. Drexhage

   Contributed Papers Pages: 53 - 57

3. Investigations on the thermionic diode: The ionisation probability of Rbn ² P _J atoms by noble gas collisions

   • K. Niemax

   Contributed Papers Pages: 59 - 62

4. Nonlinear plasma spectroscopy of the hydrogen balmer-α line

   • E. W. Weber
   • R. Frankenberger
   • M. Schilling

   Contributed Papers Pages: 63 - 73

5. The effect of added nitrogen on multiphoton absorption by ammonia

   • I. M. Waller
   • D. K. Evans
   • R. D. McAlpine

   Contributed Papers Pages: 75 - 78

6. cw far-infrared lasing in¹⁵NH₃, stark resonantly pumped by a CO₂ or N₂O laser

   • C. Gastaud
   • P. Belland
   • M. Fourrier

   Contributed Papers Pages: 79 - 81

7. Population inversion in thallium by flashlamp-photodissociation of TII

   • G. Rinke

   Contributed Papers Pages: 83 - 84

8. Infrared emissions in the CO₂-laser-induced photolysis of trifluoromethane-d and mixtures of trifluoromethane-d and -h

   • Y. Ishikawa
   • S. Arai
   • Y. Hama

   Contributed Papers Pages: 85 - 92

9. Polarization holography for measuring photoinduced optical anisotropy

   • T. Todorov
   • L. Nikolova
   • V. Dragostinova

   Contributed Papers Pages: 93 - 95

10. Nonlinear reflection of elliptically polarized light

    • G. B. Altshuller
    • V. S. Ermolaev
    • L. I. Pavlov

    Contributed Papers Pages: 97 - 100