Diode-pumped Cr:LiCAF fs regenerative amplifier system seeded by an Er-doped mode-locked fiber laser A. IsemannH. HundertmarkC. Fallnich Pages: 299 - 306
Two-octave spectral broadening of subnanojoule Cr:forsterite femtosecond laser pulses in tapered fibers D.A. AkimovA.A. IvanovA.M. Zheltikov Pages: 307 - 311
Harmonic repetition-rate femtosecond optical parametric oscillator J. JiangT. Hasama Pages: 313 - 317
Tunable, high-power, narrow-band picosecond IR radiation by optical parametric amplification in KTP K. FinsterbuschR. UrschelH. Zacharias Pages: 319 - 322
Production of laser-heated plasma in high- pressure Ar gas and emission characteristics of vacuum ultraviolet radiation from Ar2 excimers H. TanakaA. TakahashiH. Mizoguchi Pages: 323 - 326
Fluctuation of femtosecond X-ray pulses generated by a laser-Compton scheme M. YorozuJ. YangA. Endo Pages: 327 - 331
Corrugated neat thin-film conjugated polymer distributed-feedback lasers W. HolzerA. PenzkoferH.-H. Hörhold Pages: 333 - 342
Measurement of thermal lensing in a power amplifier of a terawatt Ti:sapphire laser S. ItoH. NagaokaK. Torizuka Pages: 343 - 347
Single-longitudinal-mode selection in a nanosecond-pulsed dye laser A. ShevchenkoP. RyyttyM. Kaivola Pages: 349 - 354
Laser wake field acceleration: the highly non-linear broken-wave regime A. PukhovJ. Meyer-ter-Vehn Pages: 355 - 361
Sampling high-frequency signals using a poled-polymer asymmetric Fabry–Perot microcavity as an electro-optic probe tip K.X. ChenH. YangM.B. Yi Pages: 363 - 366
Accurate method for the measurement of absorption cross sections of solid-state saturable absorbers V.G. ShcherbitskyS. GirardB. Ferrand Pages: 367 - 374
Sympathetic cooling rate of gas-phase ions in a radio-frequency-quadrupole ion trap T. BabaI. Waki Pages: 375 - 382
Reverse-symmetry waveguides: theory and fabrication R. HorváthL.R. LindvoldN.B. Larsen Pages: 383 - 393
High-resolution sum-frequency generation from alkylsiloxane monolayers B.C. ChowT.T. EhlerT.E. Furtak Pages: 395 - 399
Variation of attenuated total reflection due to the birefringence of liquid crystals by excitation of surface plasmons T.-S. LinC.-P. PangJ.-T. Lue Pages: 401 - 405
Material tensor parameters of LiNbO3 relevant for electro- and elasto-optics M. JazbinšekM. Zgonik Pages: 407 - 414
Comparison between c-cut and a-cut Nd:YVO4 lasers passively Q-switched with a Cr4+:YAG saturable absorber Y.-F. ChenY.P. Lan Pages: 415 - 418
Nonlinear side effects of fs pulses inside corneal tissue during photodisruption A. HeisterkampT. RipkenH. Lubatschowski Pages: 419 - 425
Quantification of stable minor species in confined flames by cavity ring-down spectroscopy: application to NO L. PillierC. MoreauP. Desgroux Pages: 427 - 434
Optimization of the mode matching in pulsed cavity ringdown spectroscopy by monitoring non-degenerate transverse mode beating D.-H. LeeY. YoonJ.W. Hahn Pages: 435 - 440
Sum frequency generation at 309 nm using a violet and a near-IR DFB diode laser for detection of OH L. CornerJ.S. GibbG.A.D. Ritchie Pages: 441 - 444
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering velocimetry with nearly degenerate pumps I. RibetT. PotM. Lefebvre Pages: 445 - 452
LIDAR mapping of ozone-episode dynamics in Paris and intercomparison with spot analyzers Supplementary material available at http://link.springer.de/journals/apb A. ThomassonS. GeffroyJ.P. Wolf Rapid communication Pages: 453 - 459
Exhaust-gas imaging via planar laser- induced fluorescence of sulfur dioxide V. Sick Rapid communication Pages: 461 - 463
Pulsed cavity ring-down spectroscopy of NO and NO2 in the exhaust of a diesel engine R. EvertsenA. StaicuJ.J. ter Meulen Rapid communication Pages: 465 - 468