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The aim of the project is to develop a new approach in the theory of localized solutions to the wave equation - and to test it experimentally - which would bring out relations between these solutions considered still as a bit exotic, on the one hand, and the wave beams well-known in optics, on the other. would clarify questions, still discussed in the literature, about acausal and evanescent components of these waves, about superluminalities in their propagation and transmission and other problems, and so would contribute to finding new practical applications of these waves.Main results expected: a cohesive theoretical description of focus wave modes, Gaussian beams, and other localized/focussed pulsed wave fields and time-space couplings in their angular spectra, which uses the conception of complex sources-sinks as charges generating free electromagnetic field, generalizations of the theory for axially nonsymmetric fields and beams possessing orbital momentum, publications (about 10) and a couple of dissertations, as well as further development of scientific cooperation with the Palacky University (Prof. Z. Bouchal) in Czech Republic, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (Prof. A.Friberg) and the University of Siegen (Prof. A. Meixner) in Germany |