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It was recently suggested that under suitable conditions the propagation of femtosecond optical pulses in electro-optic materials should be accompanied by the radiation of an extremely fast electromagnetic transient [1,2]. This phenomenon, which arises from the inverse electro-optic effect [3], produces a Čerenkov cone of pulsed radiation having a duration of approximately one cycle and a frequency in the THz range.
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Cheung, K.P., Auston, D.H., Valdmanis, J.A., Kleinman, D.A. (1984). Čerenkov Radiation from Femtosecond Optical Pulses in Electro-Optic Media. In: Auston, D.H., Eisenthal, K.B. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena IV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82378-7_109
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