Physics of Laser Crystals

1. Structure and functional properties of crystalline metals; V.I. Simonov. 2. UV-VUV laser and fast scintillators; J.-C. Krupa, V.N. Makhov. 3. Persistent luminescence materials; T. Aitasalo, J. Hölsä, J.-C. Krupa, M. Lastusaari, J. Niittykoski. 4. Relaxation of Mid-IR transitions of Nd3+ in laser crystals with 'short' phonon spectra; T.T. Basiev, Yu.V. Orlovskii, I.N. Vorob'ev, L.N. Dmitruk, T.D. Efimenko, V.N. Skvortsov, V.A. Konyushkin, V.V. Osiko. 5. Growth and characterization of Y-Lu-Gd aluminium perovskites; J.A. Mares, M. Nikl, K. Blazek, P. Maly, K. Nejezchleb. 6. What kind of information is possible to obtain from 2S+1L terms of 4fN configurations? E. Antic-Fidancev. 7. Location of charge-compensating vacancy in ionic crystals doped with rare earth ions: in case of cubic perovskite KMgF3 doped with Eu2+ ions; T. Tsuboi. 8. Fluorescence dynamics of Er3+ ions in MBE-grown GaNH-thin films; F. Pellé, F. Auzel, J.M. Zavada, U. Hömmerich, D.S. Lee, A.J. Stecki. 9. Heterogeneous dispersed systems: a new material science approach; V. Koshkin, Yu. Dolzhenko. 10. Electronic structure of doped and irradiated wide band-gap crystals doped with Me/RE-impurities; N.A. Kulagin. 11. Overlap polarizability and covalency in diatomic molecules and europium complexes; R.Q. Albuquerque, O.L. Malta. 12. Red-infrared emission of Tm3+ ions in YVO4 and LiNbO3 crystals by multi-phonon excitation with high-power 798 nm laser diode; T. Tsuboi, R. Yongfeng, N.A. Kulagin. 13. Valence state stabilityin SrTiO3 doped with ME/RE-ions; N.A. Kulagin, J. Dojcilovic, D. Popovic. 14. Optical transparency of quartz and fullerite C60 at high power infrared laser irradiation; I.I. Geru, D.M. Spoiala, I.T. Dihor. 15. An optimal way for computation of non-linear optical properties of crystals and large conjugated molecules within cluster models; Yu.F. Pedash, A.Yu. Semenov. 16. Modification of solid surface by a compression plasma; M.M. Kuraica, V.M. Astashynski, I.P. Dojcinovic, J.