by L M Soroko (Joint Inst. for Nucl. Res., Russia)

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).

• Introduction and Survey
• Axicons and Conical Waves
• Meso-Optical Elements with Ring Response
• Diffraction Free Wavefields
• Localized Electromagnetic Waves
• Gravitational Lens
• Inverse Meso-Optics
• Meso-Optics and Micro-Tomography
• Meso-Optical Metrological Devices
• History of Meso-Optics
• Appendix: Integral Transform
• References
• Subject Index