A determination was made of the effective properties of silicon layers implantation-doped with 40 keV B** plus and P** plus ions and annealed by high-power ruby laser radiation pulses. In the case of low ion doses, this laser annealing was equivalent to thermal annealing at 900 degree C applied for 3 min. An analysis of the short-circuit current spectra of photoelectric converters made of implanted and laser-annealed layers demonstrated that such annealing had no significant influence on the minority-carrier lifetime in the underlying original material.