Chapter 1
Non-Diffracting Waves: An Introduction (pages 1–67)Chapter 2
Localized Waves: Historical and Personal Perspectives (pages 69–81)Chapter 3
Applications of Propagation Invariant Light Fields (pages 83–108)Chapter 4
X-Type Waves in Ultrafast Optics (pages 109–134)Chapter 5
Limited-Diffraction Beams for High-Frame-Rate Imaging (pages 135–160)Chapter 6
Spatiotemporally Localized Null Electromagnetic Waves (pages 161–187)Chapter 7
Linearly Traveling and Accelerating Localized Wave Solutions to the Schrödinger and Schrödinger-Like Equations (pages 189–209)Chapter 8
Rogue X-Waves (pages 211–230)Chapter 9
Quantum X-Waves and Applications in Nonlinear Optics (pages 231–245)Chapter 10
TE and TM Optical Localized Beams (pages 247–255)Chapter 11
Spatiotemporal Localization of Ultrashort-Pulsed Bessel Beams at Extremely Low Light Level (pages 257–269)Chapter 12
Adaptive Shaping of Nondiffracting Wavepackets for Applications in Ultrashort Pulse Diagnostics (pages 271–285)Chapter 13
Localized Waves Emanated by Pulsed Sources: The Riemann–Volterra Approach (pages 287–306)Chapter 14
Propagation-Invariant Optical Beams and Pulses (pages 307–326)Chapter 15
Diffractionless Nanobeams Produced by Multiple-Waveguide Metallic Nanostructures (pages 327–338)Chapter 16
Low-Cost 2D Collimation of Real-Time Pulsed Ultrasonic Beams by X-Wave-Based High-Voltage Driving of Annular Arrays (pages 339–362)Chapter 17
Localized Beams and Localized Pulses: Generation Using the Angular Spectrum (pages 363–378)Chapter 18
Lossy Light Bullets (pages 379–397)Chapter 19
Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Composed Pupils (pages 399–416)Chapter 20
Experimental Generation of Frozen Waves in Optics: Control of Longitudinal and Transverse Shape of Optical Non-diffracting Waves (pages 417–431)Chapter 21
Airy Shaped Waves (pages 433–450)Chapter 22
Solitons and Ultra-Short Optical Waves: The Short-Pulse Equation Versus the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (pages 451–471)Index (pages 473–481)
