1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Propagation and deflection of guided modes in planar waveguides via grating rotation

   • M. Veith
   • K. G. Müller
   • W. Knoll

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 4

3. Polarization spectroscopy applied to C₂ detection in a flame

   • K. Nyholm
   • M. Kaivola
   • C. G. Aminoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 10

4. Effects of inert gases on the degenerate four-wave-mixing spectrum of NO₂

   • A. P. Smith
   • G. Hall
   • P. A. Delve

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 18

5. Radio-frequency laser double-resonance spectroscopy of trapped¹⁷¹Yb ions and determination of line shifts of the ground-state hyperfine resonance

   • C. Tamm
   • D. Schnier
   • A. Bauch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 29

6. Optically stabilized tunable diode-laser system for saturation spectroscopy

   • M. Mürtz
   • M. Schaefer
   • W. Urban

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 37

7. Photorefractive four-wave mixing in a high-contrast regime

   • W. Królikowski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 42

8. Direct observation of the second-order Stark effect of theX-B transition in molecular iodine

   • A. N. Goncharov
   • A. Y. Nevsky
   • M. N. Skvortsov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 45

9. Photorefractive mutually pumped phase conjugation with partially coherent beams

   • Q. B. He
   • P. Yeh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 50

10. Soot-visualization strategies using laser techniques

    • P. -E. Bengtsson
    • M. Aldén

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 59

11. Two-photon excitation of atomic oxygen using a Raman-shifted ArF-excimer laser

    • D. G. Fletcher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 65

12. CW and quasi-CW diode-laser-pumped Nd:SSGM

    • V. Kushawaha
    • Y. Chen

    Rapid Communication Pages: 67 - 69