Fast light, slow light and optical precursors: What does it all mean?

Photonics Spectra

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gauthier, Daniel J ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL THEORY; OPTICAL PRECURSORS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 33846799307     PISSN: 07311230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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