Meso-optics: foundations and applications

The monograph covers various meso-optical elements, diffraction free light beams, localized electromagnetic fields, gravitational lens, meso-optical devices for transportation of the synchrotron radiation, meso-optical microscopes for high energy elementary particle physics, and the history of meso-optics. Some integral transforms useful in meso-optics are presented in the Appendix. The author is an active participant of many investigations in meso-optics and provides an up-to-date encyclopedic review of the theoretical and experimental investigations on Meso-Optics (optics of the conical wave fields).

Ch. 1. Introduction and survey -- ch. 2. Axicons and conical waves. 2.1. Conical waves and meso-optics. 2.2. Axicons. 2.3. Side-lobes of the meso-optical image. 2.4. General theory of axicons. 2.5. Computer-generated holograms. 2.6. Kinoforms and focusators. 2.7. Description of the conical waves. 2.8. Exotic meso-optical elements. 2.9. Applications of axicons -- ch. 3. Meso-optical elements with ring response. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Meso-optical fourier transform microscope (MFTM). 3.3. Sagittal section of the MFTM. 3.4. Convolution kernel of the MFTM. 3.5. Meso-optical moire-effect. 3.6. MFTM with one-channel photodetectors. 3.7. Some other designs of the MFTM. 3.8. Isoplanatic systems in meso-optics. 3.9. Problem of depth-of-focus in meso-optics. 3.10. Another systems of the line detection. 3.11. Applications.

Ch. 4. Diffraction free wavefields. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Bessel-Gauss beams. 4.3. Darkness in optics. 4.4. Darkness in meso-optics. 4.5. Longitudinal interference of the conical wavefields. 4.6. Production of diffraction-free waves -- ch. 5. Localized electromagnetic waves. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Light beams and complex-source point method. 5.3. Focus wave modes. 5.4…