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| JOURNALS // Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk // Archive |
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2011, Volume 181, Number 1
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| CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE LASER | |||
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50 years of the laser era |
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Laser: a source of coherent light O. N. Krokhin |
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| REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS | |||
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Horizons of petawatt laser technology A. V. Korzhimanov, A. A. Gonoskov, E. A. Khazanov, A. M. Sergeev |
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The Raman effect in femto- and attosecond physics A. M. Zheltikov |
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Enabling transformation optics through metamaterials A. V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev |
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| FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS | |||
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Development history of the laser I. A. Shcherbakov |
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The laser in the USSR: the first steps I. M. Belousova |
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On the creation of the first ruby laser in Moscow A. M. Leontovich, Z. A. Chizhikova |
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| PHYSICS NEWS ON THE INTERNET | |||
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Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints) Yu. N. Eroshenko |
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| CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA | |||
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Celebrating 50 years of the laser (Joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Science Councils of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS and the A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, 21 April 2010) |
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Optical Department of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS: early work on lasers A. V. Masalov |
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Laser methods for generating megavolt terahertz pulses S. V. Garnov, I. A. Shcherbakov |
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The early history of the injection laser Yu. M. Popov |
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Self-focusing laser pulses: current state and future prospects A. A. Manenkov |
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| PERSONALIA | |||
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Aleksandr Grigor'evich Litvak (on his 70th birthday) E. P. Velikhov, A. V. Gaponov-Grekhov, S. V. Gaponov, V. V. Zheleznyakov, L. M. Zelenyi, È. P. Kruglyakov, V. A. Matveev, G. A. Mesyats, A. M. Sergeev, V. P. Smirnov, V. I. Talanov, V. E. Fortov |
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kaplyanskii (on his 80th birthday) E. B. Aleksandrov, Zh. I. Alferov, S. N. Bagaev, T. T. Basiev, A. G. Zabrodskii, V. V. Kveder, L. V. Keldysh, B. V. Novikov, V. V. Osiko, R. A. Suris, V. B. Timofeev, I. A. Shcherbakov |
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Vladimir Vasil'evich Zheleznyakov (on his 80th birthday) A. F. Andreev, A. A. Boyarchuk, D. A. Varshalovich, A. V. Gaponov-Grekhov, L. M. Zelenyi, V. V. Kocharovskii, A. G. Litvak, E. A. Mareev, R. A. Syunyaev, V. I. Talanov, I. E. Tryumper, A. M. Cherepashchuk |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |||
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New books on physics and related sciences E. V. Zakharova |
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