Why do superluminal pulses become subluminal once they go far enough?

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Nanda, Lipsa ^a   Wanare, Harshawardhan ^a   Ramakrishna, S Anantha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORBED ENERGY; ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; GROUP VELOCITIES; POYNTING VECTORS; PULSE SHAPES; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; SUBLUMINAL; SUPERLUMINAL; SUPERLUMINAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERLUMINAL EFFECTS; SUPERLUMINAL PULSE PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS; THEORETICAL BASIS; TIME MOMENTS;

EID: 66049084364     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.041806     Document Type: Article

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