Diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 lasers operating at 1.06 μm wavelength C. LiJ. SongK. Ueda Pages: 471 - 474
Pulsed blue-light generation by the frequency doubling of the 4F3/2 to 4I9/2 transition in Nd:YAG and Nd:YAlO3 Y. LutzD. RytzC. Gaudillat Pages: 479 - 482
Continuous wave laser radiation at 693 nm from LiNbO3:ZnO:Nd3+ nonlinear laser crystal D. JaqueJ.A. Sanz-GarcíaJ. García Solé Pages: 483 - 486
Determination of the Auger upconversion rate in fiber-coupled diode end-pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 crystals Y.F. ChenC.C. LiaoS.C. Wang Pages: 487 - 490
Energetic and thermal performance of high-gain diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG rods R. FluckM.R. HermannL.A. Hackel Pages: 491 - 498
Polarization properties of coherent VUV light at 125 nm generated by sum-frequency four-wave mixing in mercury L. MuseurC. OliveroM.C. Castex Pages: 499 - 503
Prospects of “water-window” X-ray emission from subpicosecond laser plasmas A.A. AndreevU. TeubnerE. Förster Pages: 505 - 515
Operation characteristics of the Au-II 690-nm laser transition in a segmented hollow-cathode discharge G. BánóL. SzalaiT.M. Adamowicz Pages: 521 - 525
Enhanced efficiency and extended wavelength range of dye lasers operated with DCM L. MeyerA. BaigW. Demtröder Pages: 527 - 527
Rotational Raman scattering dependence on pump polarization D. DisoM.R. PerroneM.L. Protopapa Pages: 529 - 536
Holographic determination of the irradiance dependence of linear-chain polymerization rates in photopolymer dry films C.R. Fernández-PousaR. MallaviaS. Blaya Pages: 537 - 542
Studies of impurity levels in Rh-doped and Ce-doped photorefractive BaTiO3 H. SongS.X. DouP. Ye Pages: 543 - 548
Observation of X-ray spectra from nitrogen clusters irradiated with high-intensity ultrashort laser pulses A. SagisakaH. HondaH. Takuma Pages: 549 - 554
Optical surface absorption by surface-adsorbate charge-transfer excitations S. SchatteburgD. DiesingA. Otto Pages: 573 - 577
Evanescent wave scattering by aggregates of clusters – application to optical near-field microscopy M. Quinten Pages: 579 - 586
Determination of nonlinear absorption and refraction by single Z-scan method M. YinH.P. LiW. Ji Pages: 587 - 591
A ray-optic, Monte Carlo, description of a Gaussian beam waist – applied to reverse saturable absorption P.K. Milsom Pages: 593 - 599
Theoretical study on the organic molecular second-order hyperpolarizability B. ZhaoY. WuC.-Y. Chen Pages: 601 - 605
Temperature and concentration measurements in acetylene-nitrogen mixtures in the range 300–600 K using dual-broadband rotational CARS J. BoodP.-E. BengtssonM. Aldén Pages: 607 - 620
The use of rovibrationally excited NO photofragments as trace nitrocompounds indicators J. ShuI. BarS. Rosenwaks Pages: 621 - 625
Quantitative wavelength-modulation spectroscopy without certified gas mixtures J. HenningsenH. Simonsen Pages: 627 - 633
Feasibility of an optical experimental method for the sizing of primary spherules in sub-micron agglomerates by polarized light scattering S. di Stasio Pages: 635 - 643
Seeded and spontaneous light hexagons in LiNbO3:Fe S. OdoulovB. SturmanE. Krätzig Rapid communication Pages: 645 - 647
