Time for pulse traversal through slabs of dispersive and negative ($ε$, $μ$) materials

Details Time for pulse traversal through slabs of dispersive and negative ($ε$, $μ$) materials Time for pulse traversal through slabs of dispersive and negative ($ε$, $μ$) materials

2007-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/0707.2513v1

Phys. Rev. A 76, 063807 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.063807

The traversal times for an electromagnetic pulse traversing a slab of dispersive and dissipative material with negative dielectric permittivity ($\epsilon$) and magnetic permeability ($\mu$) have been calculated by using the average flow of electromagnetic energy in the medium. The effects of bandwidth of the pulse and dissipation in the medium have been investigated. While both large bandwidth and large dissipation have similar effects in smoothening out the resonant features that appear due to Fabry-P\'{e}rot resonances, large dissipation can result in very small or even negative traversal times near the resonant frequencies. We have also investigated the traversal times and Wigner delay times for obliquely incident pulses and evanescent pulses. The coupling to slab plasmon polariton modes in frequency ranges with negative $\epsilon$ or $\mu$ is shown to result in large traversal times at the resonant conditions. We also find that the group velocity mainly contributes to the delay times for pulse propagating across a slab with n=-1. We have checked that the traversal times are positive and subluminal for pulses with sufficiently large bandwidths.

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