Title :
Negative group delay and superluminal propagation: an electronic circuit approach
Author :
Kitano, Masao ; Nakanishi, Toshihiro ; Sugiyama, Kazuhiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Kyoto Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We present a simple electronic circuit which provides negative group delays for band-limited baseband pulses. It is shown that large time advancement comparable to the pulsewidth can be achieved with appropriate cascading of negative-delay circuits but eventually the out-of-band gain limits the number of cascading. The relations to superluminality and causality are also discussed.
Keywords :
all-pass filters; causality; delay circuits; delay filters; electromagnetic wave propagation; light velocity; low-pass filters; pulse circuits; all-pass filter; band-limited baseband pulses; cascading; causality; large time advancement; low-pass filters; negative group delay; negative-delay circuits; out-of-band gain; pulsewidth; simple electronic circuit; superluminal propagation; superluminality; Baseband; Delay systems; Electronic circuits; Filters; Optical distortion; Optical propagation; Optical resonators; Propagation delay; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation;
Journal_Title :
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807979