Propagation speed of evanescent modes
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 62 (6) , 8628-8635
Abstract
The group velocity of evanescent waves (in undersized waveguides, for instance) was theoretically predicted, and has been experimentally verified, to be superluminal By contrast, it is known that the precursor speed in vacuum cannot be larger than c. In this paper, by computer simulations based on Maxwell equations only, we show the existence of both phenomena. In other words, we verify the actual possibility of superluminal group velocities, without violating the so-called (naive) Einstein causality.
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