title: Whispering gallery mirrors for the soft x-ray region: properties and applications.
abstract: Basic properties of whispering gallery mirrors in the soft x-ray region are considered. The following applications of whispering gallery optics are discussed: increasing the utilization efficiency of point source radiation, deflecting a synchrotron radiation beam to the vertical plane and transporting it to another horizontal level, resonators for soft x-ray lasers, and using the whispering gallery effect to investigate the roughness of concave surfaces.
authors.affiliation: P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: I N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Bukreeva
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Kozhevnikov
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Vinogradov