We report on the effect of a strong and protracted advanced response in pulse transmission and reflection in a double-prism scheme. In distinction to the well-known activity on superluminal-like tunneling of an electromagnetic pulse through a gap of a double prism, we consider an optical pulse refracting to a gap and sliding therein. The formation of a multiperiod light jet running within the gap well before the incident pulse is shown with account of normal material dispersion and excitation of leaky modes in the gap. Conditions for the paradoxical appearance of the forerunning jet are revealed to have a geometrical nature with a specific relation between phase and group velocities involved. This deduction assigns the stated effect to the counterintuitive manifestation of causality with no reference to superluminal propagation.
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