Understanding subluminal and superluminal propagation through superposition of frequency components

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Guo, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DIELECTRIC SLABS; LIGHT PULSES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 32844454444     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.016605     Document Type: Article

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