High-Power Lasers and Laser Plasmas / Moshchnye Lazery I Lazernaya Plazma / Мощные Лазеры И Лазерная Плазма: The Lebedev Physics Institute Series, cartea 85

Stimulated Mandel’ shtam — Brillouin Scattering Lasers V. V. Ragul’skii.- I Conditions for Obtaining Stationary Lasing with Stimulated Scattering of Light.- II Gains and Line Widths for SMBS in Gases.- III Single-Frequency SMBS Ring Laser.- IV Operation of SMBS Amplifier in the Saturation Regime.- V Q Switching by SMBS.- VI Inversion of the Exciting-Radiation Wave Front in SMBS.- VII SMBS in the Case of Exciting Radiation with a Broad Spectrum.- Compressed-Gas Lasers V. A. Danilychev, O. M. Kerimov, and I. B. Kovsh.- I Electroionization Method of Exciting Compressed-Gas Lasers.- II Electroionization CO2 High-Pressure Laser.- III High-Pressure Gas Lasers Using Other Working Media.- Conclusion.- Experimental Investigation of the Reflection and Absorptionof High-Power Radiation in a Laser Plasma O. N. Krokhin, G. V. Sklizkov, and A. S. Shikanov.- I Reflection of Laser Radiation from a Plasma (Survey of the Literature).- II Investigation of the Absorption of Laser Radiation in Thin Targets.- III Reflection of Laser Radiation from a Dense Plasma.- IV Generation of Harmonics of the Heating-Radiation Frequency in a Laser Plasma.- V Anisotropy of X Rays from a Laser Plasma.- Experimental Study of Cumulative Phenomena in a Plasma Focus and in a Laser Plasma V. A. Gribkov, O. N. Krokhin, G. V. Sklizkov, N. V. Filippov, and T. I. Filippova.- I Procedure of High-Speed Interferometric Investigation of a Nonstationary Dense Plasma.- II Investigation of Cumulative Stage of Plasma Focus.- III Discussion of Results of Experiments with Plasma Focus.- IV Investigations of Cumulative Laser Plasma.- V Discussion of Experimental Results.- Conclusion.- Literature Cited.