A systemized view of superluminal wave propagation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1775-1786

  Withayachumnankul, Withawat ^a,b   Fischer, Bernd M ^a   Ferguson, Bradley ^a   Davis, Bruce R ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter theory; photonic crystals; pulse shaping; superluminal propagation; terahertz radiation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE SHAPING;

BAND-GAP STRUCTURES; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; FILTER THEORY; GAUSSIAN PULSE; MINIMUM PHASE FILTER; SUPERLUMINAL; SUPERLUMINAL PROPAGATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77956974573     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2052910     Document Type: Article

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