Negative group delay and superluminal propagation: An electronic circuit approach

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-51

  Kitano, Masao ^a   Nakanishi, Toshihiro ^a   Sugiyama, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causality; Filter; Group velocity; Negative group delay; Superluminal propagation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DELAY CIRCUITS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHT VELOCITY;

SUPERLUMINAL PROPAGATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037278524     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807979     Document Type: Article

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