Impossibility of negative group velocities in a periodic layer structure with or without loss

Optics Communications

Volumn 250, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 258-265

  Poirier, Louis ^a   Thompson, Robert I ^a   Haché, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coaxial cable; Computational analysis; Negative tunnelling times; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Superluminal group velocity

Indexed keywords

COAXIAL CABLES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE TUNNELLING TIMES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERLUMINAL GROUP VELOCITY;

LIGHT VELOCITY;

EID: 19344376945     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.02.066     Document Type: Article

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