Diffraction Optics of Complex-Structured Periodic Media

1 Waves in Media with One-Dimensional Periodicity (Exact Solution).- 1.1 Layered Medium.- 1.2 Optics of Cholesterics (Exact Solution).- 1.3 Solution of Boundary Problem.- References.- 2 Approximate Description of Interaction of Radiation with Regular Media.- 2.1 Kinematical Approximation.- 2.2 Dynamical Theory.- References.- 3 Diffraction of Mössbauer Radiation in Magnetically Ordered Crystals.- 3.1 Diffraction of Mössbauer Radiation.- 3.2 Amplitude of Coherent Mössbauer Scattering.- 3.3 Kinematical Theory of Mössbauer Diffraction.- 3.4 Dynamical Theory of Mössbauer Diffraction.- References.- 4 Optics of Chiral Liquid Crystals.- 4.1 Optics of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (CLC).- 4.2 Absorbing Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- 4.3 Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals.- 4.4 Blue Phase of Liquid Crystals.- References.- 5 Radiation of Fast Charged Particles in Regular Media.- 5.1 Structure Cherenkov Radiation (Kinematical Approximation).- 5.2 Coherent Coulomb Excitation of a Mössbauer Transition in a Single Crystal.- 5.3 Structure Cherenkov Radiation in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal.- 5.4 Dynamic Theory of Coherent Radiation of Fast Charged Particles in Regular Media.- References.- 6 Nonlinear Optics of Periodic Media.- 6.1 Enhancement of Efficiency of the Nonlinear Transformation of Optical Frequencies in Periodic Medium.- 6.2 Third Harmonic Generation in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal.- 6.3 Phase-Matching Conditions Independent of Frequency Dispersion.- 6.4 Nonlinear Generation of Harmonics in Blue Phase of Liquid Crystals.- References.- 7 Dynamic Scattering of Thermal Neutrons in Magnetically Ordered Crystals.- 7.1 Scattering Amplitude of Thermal Neutrons.- 7.2 System of Dynamic Equations.- 7.3 Structures with Compensated Magnetic Moment of a Unit Cell.- 7.4 Dynamic Scatteringin Magnetically Ordered Structures of the General Type.- References.- 8 Polarization Phenomena in X-Ray Optics.- 8.1 Polarization Phenomena in Diffraction.- 8.2 Anisotropy of X-Ray Susceptibility.- 8.3 Polarization Effects in X-Ray Optical Components.- 804 Conclusions.- References.- 9 Magnetic X-Ray Scattering.- 9.1 Magnetic Scattering.- 9.2 Polarization Properties of Magnetic Scattering.- 9.3 X-Ray Resonance Magnetic Scattering.- 904 X-Ray Magnetic Birefringence and Dichroism.- References.- 10 Mössbauer Filtration of Synchrotron Radiation.- 10.1 On Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Mössbauer Filtration.- 10.2 The First Observations of Mössbauer Filtration.- 10.3 Speed-Up of Mössbauer Scattering in Crystals.- 10.4 Temporal Quantum Beats in Mössbauer Filtration of SR.- 10.5 Future Mössbauer Experiments with Synchrotron Radiation.- 10.6 Coherent Inelastic Mössbauer Scattering.- 10.7 Recent Experiments on Mössbauer Filtration.- References.