Plasma Physics Reports -- January 2002 Volume 28, Issue 1, pp. 1-82 TOKAMAKS Simulations of Tokamak Discharges with Fast L–H Transitions V. M. Leonov pp. 1-6 Full Text: PDF (62 kB) MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT SYSTEMS Measurements of the Microwave Power Absorbed by a Plasma during Second Harmonic ECR Heating in the L-2M Stellarator D. K. Akulina, G. M. Batanov, M. S. Berezhetskii, G. S. Voronov, G. A. Gladkov, S. E. Grebenshchikov, N. P. Donskaya, L. V. Kolik, N. F. Larionova, A. I. Meshcheryakov, K. A. Sarksyan, O. I. Fedyanin, N. K. Kharchev, Yu. V. Khol'nov, and S. V. Shchepetov pp. 7-11 Full Text: PDF (67 kB) NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN PLASMA On the Design of Experiments for the Study of Relativistic Nonlinear Optics in the Limit of Single-Cycle Pulse Duration and Single-Wavelength Spot Size G. Mourou, Z. Chang, A. Maksimchuk, J. Nees, S. V. Bulanov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, N. M. Naumova, F. Pegoraro, and H. Ruhl pp. 12-27 Full Text: PDF (1240 kB) DUSTY PLASMA Potential of a Dust Grain in a Nitrogen Plasma with a Condensed Disperse Phase at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures A. F. Pal', D. V. Sivokhin, A. N. Starostin, A. V. Filippov, and V. E. Fortov pp. 28-39 Full Text: PDF (158 kB) PLASMA DYNAMICS Plasma Acceleration Efficiency in a Pulsed Electrodynamic Accelerator A. A. Kondrat'ev and Yu. I. Matveenko pp. 40-45 Full Text: PDF (129 kB) PLASMA KINETICS Modeling of Coulomb Collisions in a Kinetic Description of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Heating A. G. Shalashov and E. V. Suvorov pp. 46-56 Full Text: PDF (161 kB) PLASMA INSTABILITY Effect of the Plasma Electron Motion on the Development of Cherenkov Instability in a Waveguide D. N. Klochkov and A. N. Klochkov pp. 57-62 Full Text: PDF (74 kB) LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA RF Discharge in CO2 Laser Mixtures at Moderate Pressures S. A. Starostin, K. J. Boller, P. J. M. Peters, Yu. B. Udalov, I. V. Kochetov, and A. P. Napartovich pp. 63-70 Full Text: PDF (133 kB) Low-Current Moderate-Pressure RF Discharge with Secondary Electron Photoemission I. Ya. Baranov pp. 71-77 Full Text: PDF (95 kB) Characteristic Features of Energy Transfer in the Wall Region of a Lithium Vapor Discharge V. A. Kvitsinskii, E. V. Mudretskaya, S. N. Pavlov, and S. A. Perevoznikov pp. 78-81 Full Text: PDF (56 kB) JUBILEES Lev Mikhailovich Kovrizhnykh (In Honor of His 70th Birthday) p. 82 Full Text: PDF (47 kB)