Alain Haché
Physicist, Academic
1970 –
Who is Alain Haché?
Alain Haché is an experimental physicist, a professor at the University of Moncton, Canada. Since 2003 he holds the Canada Research Chair in Photonics. He is also the author of The Physics of Hockey, a popular science book on ice hockey.
In 2002, he and undergraduate student Louis Poirier transmitted faster-than-light electrical pulses through a 120-metre long "photonic crystal" made of coaxial cables of alternating characteristic impedance. The experiment showed that the pulse envelope was recreated at the end of the cables at a speed of >3 c. Since this speed represents the group velocity but not the signal velocity, no energy or information was actually traveling faster than light.
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