Diffraction Optics of Complex-Structured Periodic Media

This work discusses the interaction of waves (which may represent x-rays, gamma rays, electrons or neutrons) with various kinds of ordered media. Aspects covered include exact and approximate solutions to scattering problems, diffraction of Moessbauer radiation in magnetically ordered crystals, the optics of chiral liquid crystals, the radiation of fast particles in regular media (Cherenkov radiation), nonlinear optics of periodic media, neutron scattering in magnetically ordered media, polarization phenomena in x-ray optics, magnetic x-ray scattering and Moessbauer filtration of synchrotron radiation.