On the apparent superluminality of evanescent waves

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 561-566

  Brudny, Vera L ^a   Mochán, W Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; RELATIVITY; SOLITONS; VACUUM;

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT PULSES; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0005827496     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000561     Document Type: Article

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