Passive system with tunable group velocity for propagating electrical pulses from sub- to superluminal velocities.
We report an observation of tunable group velocity from sub-luminal to superluminal in a completely passive system. Electric pulses are sent along a spatially periodic conducting medium containing a punctual nonlinearity, and the resulting amplitude-dependent phase shift allows us to control dispersion and the propagation velocity at the stop band frequency.
Haché
Alain
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Département de Physique et d'Astronomie, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada E1A 3E9.
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Sophie
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