About superluminal propagation of an electromagnetic wavepacket inside a rectangular waveguide

Journal de Physique II

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1211-1219

  Cardone, F ^b,c   Mignani, R ^a,e   Olkhovsky, V S ^d  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITÀ GREGORIANA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIO TRANSMISSION; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; RELATIVITY;

FOURIER EXPANSION; MAXWELL THEORY; SPACETIME DEFORMATION; SUPERLUMINAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TUNNELING;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031250326     PISSN: 11554312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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