Analogy between electron tunneling and evanescent EM modes

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can anyone tell me what's the formal analogy between electron tunneling in terms of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic waveguide modes at frequencies below cutoff ?
 
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Below, cutoff, the EM fields fall off exponentially like the wave function at a finite barrier.
 

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