The principle of a zone plate itself is a very important concept in the optics which was found in the early 19th century by Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788 - 1827).  Therefore,  it is described in most textbooks of the optics. 

In comparison with the pinhole photography the zone plate photography has not been interested in by many photographers yet.  Though there are not many books of a zone plate written for photographers, one chapter is offered for a zone plate photography in the book by Renner.   Technical books or scientific papers on development of new zone plates or applications are sometimes very useful but we don’t cite here.

Recently a lot of web sites on zone plate photography are published.  As these sites are easily searched we don’t mention them here except for a site of  Zone Plate Generator which is especially useful for creating a zone plate pattern.

There are many sites concerning a zone plate telescope as well as other scientific application of a zone plate.  We are not going to refer specialistic applications but as for recent zone plate telescopes we would like to mention that there is an article, Telescope could focus light without a mirror or lens .

Textbooks of optics

1. *Eugene Hecht, Optics, Fourth Edition (Addison Wesley, San Francisco 2002).
   

2. *Robert William Wood, Physical Optics, Third Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington D.C.,  reprinted 1988).
   

3. *Miles V. Klein, Optics (John Wiley & Sons Inc., N.Y., 1969).
   

4. *Masao Tsuruta, Pencil of Light 2(Zoku Hikari no Enpitsu) (Shin Gijutu Communications, Tokyo, Japan, 1988) in Japanese.
   

5. *Kazumi Murata, Kougaku(Optics) (Saiensu-sha, Tokyo, 1979) in Japanese.
   

6. *Takeo Hori, Jun’ichi Hori, Kougaku(Optics) 1 & 2 (Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo, 1967) in Japanese.
   

Zone plate photography & telescope

1. *Eric Renner, Pinhole Photography, Third Edition (Focal Press/Elsevier, Burlington, USA, 2004).
   

2. *Arnold Roy Shulman, Optical Data Processing (John Wiley & Sons Inc., N.Y., 1970).
   

3. *Peter L. Manley, Unusual Telescope (Univ. of California Press, 1991).
   

4. *Ichiro Shimizu, Minoru Ono, Hisako Koyama, Observation of Sunspots (Kouseisha Kouseikaku, Tokyo, Japan, 1969) in Japanese.
   

Photon sieve

1. *L. Kipp, et al., Sharper images by focusing soft X-rays with photon sieves, Nature Vol.414 (8 Nov. 2001) pp.184 - 88.
   

Miscellaneous

1. *William Seabrook, Doctor Wood -Modern Wizard of the Laboratory- (Harcourt, Brace and Company, N.Y. USA, 1941).

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