Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling

Herbert G. Winful

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2003),
paper QFA5

Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling

Herbert G. Winful

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 2003

Baltimore, Maryland United States
1–6 June 2003
ISBN: 1-55752-733-4

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Abstract

The apparent superluminal tunneling of wavepackets through photonic bandgaps and other barriers is shown to be a quasi-static process in which the envelope of the input pulse modulates the amplitude of a standing wave.

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