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Recently, several experimental groups have demonstrated that the ultrafast optical excitation of bulk semiconductors and semiconductor microstructures subjected to a DC electric field produces submillimeter electromagnetic radiation.1–5 The fast-changing photocurrent caused by the ultrafast excitation has been identified as a source of such electromagnetic transients.1 However, the theoretical understanding of the photocurrent on femtosecond time scale is still incomplete.
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Kuznetsov, A.V., Stanton, C.J. (1994). Ultrafast Optical Generation of Carriers in a DC Electric Field. In: Phillips, R.T. (eds) Coherent Optical Interactions in Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 330. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9748-0_24
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