A joint scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Joint Physical Society of the Russian Federation was held in the Conference Hall of the P N Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, on 29 September 2004. The following reports were presented at the session:
(1) Dianov E M, Bufetov I A (Research Center of Fiber Optics at the A M Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) ’Fiber laser as a new breakthrough in laser physics’;
(2) I A Bufetov, E M Dianov (Research Center of Fiber Optics at the A M Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) ’Optical discharge in optical fibers’.
An abridged version of the second report is given below.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.81.−i (all) DOI: 10.1070/PU2005v048n01ABEH002081 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2005/1/g/ 000229079600008 2005PhyU...48...91B Citation: Bufetov I A, Dianov E M "Optical discharge in optical fibers" Phys. Usp. 48 91–94 (2005) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Оригинал: Буфетов И А, Дианов Е М «Оптический разряд в волоконных световодах» УФН 175 100 (2005); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0175.200501g.0100