title: Tunneling in frustrated total internal reflection: a comparison of different approaches.
abstract: Tunneling processes in frustrated total internal reflection are reexamined in order to compare the results already obtained from adopting a procedure based on a transition-element analysis with those recently reported on the basis of a statistical method applied to a Brownian-like motion. A close agreement between the two approaches can be established, at optical and microwave scales, when suitable values of the involved parameters are adopted.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: Anedio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ranfagni
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cacciari
authors.forename: Maria Angela
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Vitali