Negative group delay and pulse compression in superluminal pulse propagation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-58

  Cao, Hua ^a   Dogariu, Arthur ^b   Wang, L J ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulse propagation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DISTORTION (WAVES); FREQUENCIES;

PULSE GROUP DELAY;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037275629     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807974     Document Type: Article

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