D’Aguanno, G.Centini, M.Bloemer, M. J.Myneni, K.Scalora, M.Bowden, C. M.Sibilia, C.Bertolotti, M.2020-06-022020-06-022002-02-01G. D’Aguanno, M. Centini, M. J. Bloemer, K. Myneni, M. Scalora, C. M. Bowden, C. Sibilia, and M. Bertolotti, "Transit time of chirped pulses through one-dimensional, nonabsorbing barriers," Opt. Lett. 27, 176-178 (2002), https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.27.000176https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.27.000176http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18804Experiments show that the transit times of chirped, narrow-band pulses that move across nonabsorbing, one-dimensional barriers are modified dramatically by the interplay between the chirp and the transmission function of the sample. In an experiment we monitored 0.9-ns chirped, nearly Gaussian pulses as they traversed a 450‐µm GaAs etalon. At certain wavelengths pulse transit times can be superluminal or even negative. To explain these phenomena we have proposed a generalization of the transit time for chirped pulses that is still meaningful even when the transit times are superluminal or negative. Our predictions agree well with the experimental results.3 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Public Domain Mark 1.0This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Text