Coherent-mode Representations in Optics

This book provides a single source of information on the problem of coherent-mode representations in optics, including new perspectives on its potential applications. In particular, the ""light string"" and the ""light capillary"" beams may be advantageously used in communications, measurements, microelectronics and microsurgery; the fast algorithm for bilinear transforms may be successfully applied to computer simulation and design of optical systems with partially coherent illumination.