Faster than light in a birefringent crystal
Quantum Physics
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We examine the effect of superluminal signal propagation through a birefringent crystal, where the effect is not due to absorption or reflection, but to the filtration of a special polarization component. We first examine the effect by a stationary phase analysis, with results consistent with those of an earlier analysis of the system. We supplement this analysis by considering the transit of a gaussian wave and find bounds for the validity of the stationary phase result. The propagation of the gaussian wave is illustrated by figures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.4457,
title = {Faster than light in a birefringent crystal},
author = {Tore Gunnar Halvorsen and Jon Magne Leinaas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4457},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures