Tunable superluminal and subluminal reflected group delay in an air-Weyl semimetal film-Weyl semimetal substrate layered system

TL;DR

This paper theoretically demonstrates how to control the sign and magnitude of reflected group delays in an air-Weyl semimetal layered system, enabling tunable slow and fast light effects for potential delay device applications.

Contribution

It introduces a method to achieve tunable superluminal and subluminal reflection delays in Weyl semimetal structures by adjusting various physical parameters.

Findings

Reflected group delays can be tuned from positive to negative.

The delay control is achieved by changing incident angle, film thickness, tilt, and Fermi energy.

The results facilitate the design of Weyl semimetal-based optical delay devices.

Abstract

In this work, we theoretically investigate the superluminal and subluminal reflected group delay from an air-Weyl semimetal film-Weyl semimetal substrate layered structure by using 4*4 magneto-optical matrix. We show a tunable transition between positive and negative group delays of reflection pulse in such a layered structure controlled by the properties of the Weyl Semimetal layer and reveal its mechanism to control the propagation properties of the light pulse reflected from such structure. It is demonstrated that the reflected group delays are tunable from positive to negative values and vice versa, which are adjusted by tuning the incident angle, thickness of Weyl semimetal film, tilt parameter, and Fermi energy. The control of the magnitude and the sign of the reflected group delay of light propagation represent a key point in slow and fast light technologies. Our results are helpful to control the pulse propagations and are useful for design of Weyl semimetal-based delay devices.