Demonstration of superluminal effects in an absorptionless, non-reflective system
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present an experimental and theoretical study of a simple, passive system consisting of a birefringent, two-dimensional photonic crystal and a polarizer in series, and show that superluminal dispersive effects can arise even though no incident radiation is absorbed or reflected. We demonstrate that a vector formulation of the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations facilitates an understanding of these counter-intuitive effects.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0308135,
title = {Demonstration of superluminal effects in an absorptionless, non-reflective system},
author = {D. R. Solli and C. F. McCormick and C. Ropers and J. J. Morehead and R. Y. Chiao and J. M. Hickmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0308135},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, accepted on Physical Review Letters