Celebrating 50 years of the laser (Joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Scientific 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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A joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the scientific councils of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS and the A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the advent of the laser was held in the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute on 21 April 2010.The following reports were put on the session's agenda posted on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the Physical Sciences Division, RAS:(1) Alferov Zh I (A F Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute RAS, St. Petersburg) "Semiconductor heterostructure lasers";(2) Bagaev S N (Institute of Laser Physics, Siberian Branch, RAS, Novosibirsk) "Ultrahigh-resolution spectra and their fundamental application";(3) Masalov A V (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) "Optical Department of the Lebedev Physical Institute: early work on lasers";(4) Garnov S V, Shcherbakov I A (A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) "Laser sources of megavolt terahertz pulses";(5) Sergeev A M, Khazanov E A (Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, Nizhny Novgorod) "Structural functions of a developed turbulence";(6) Popov Yu M (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) "The early history of semiconductor lasers";(7) Manenkov A A (A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) "Self-focusing laser pulses: current state and future prospects".The papers written on the basis of reports 3, 4, 6, and 7 are published below. A comprehensive version of report 5 prepared in the form of a review paper is published in this issue of Physics–Uspekhi on p. 9. • Optical Department of the Lebedev Physical Institute: early work on lasers, A V Masalov Physics-Uspekhi, 2011, Volume 54, Number 1, Pages 87–91 • Laser methods for generating megavolt terahertz pulses, S V Garnov, I A Shcherbakov Physics-Uspekhi, 2011, Volume 54, Number 1, Pages 91–96 • The early history of the injection laser, Yu M Popov Physics-Uspekhi, 2011, Volume 54, Number 1, Pages 96–100 • Self-focusing of laser pulses: current state and future prospects, A A Manenkov Physics-Uspekhi, 2011, Volume 54, Number 1, Pages 100–104