• DocumentCode
    2672564
  • Title

    Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling

  • Author

    Winful, H.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. The apparent superluminal tunneling of wavepackets through photonic bandgaps and other barriers is shown to be a quasi-static process in which the envelope of the input pulse modulates the amplitude of a standing wave.
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave transmission; photonic band gap; tunnelling; Hartman effect; amplitude modulation; apparent superluminality; barrier tunneling; evanescent waves; photonic bandgaps; physical mechanism; quasistatic process; reflected field; transmitted field; Amplitude modulation; Delay effects; Electromagnetic waveguides; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Photonic band gap; Propagation delay; Pulse modulation; Pulse width modulation; Tunneling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-749-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2003.238281
  • Filename
    1276441