Eur. Phys. J. D 65, 563­570 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-20408-5

Regular Article

Resonant laser tunnelling

¹ Department of Applied Mathematics, State University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6065, 13083-970 Campinas, Brazil
² Department of Physics, University of Salento and INFN Lecce, Italy

^a e-mail: deleo@ime.unicamp.br

Received: 11 July 2011
Received in final form: 14 September 2011
Published online: 1 December 2011

Abstract

We propose an experiment involving a gaussian laser tunneling through a twin barrier dielectricstructure. Of particular interest are the conditions upon the incident angle for resonance to occur. Weprovide some numerical calculations for a particular choice of laser wave length and dielectricrefractive index which confirm our expectations.