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Demonstration of superluminal effects in an absorptionless, non-reflective system

D. R. Solli, C. F. McCormick, C. Ropers, J. J. Morehead, R. Y. Chiao, J. M. Hickmann

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0308135

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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