Current pulses of up to 20 A and as short as 3 ps are generated by a low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive switch and guided through a coplanar waveguide, resulting in a 0.6 T subterahertz magnetic field pulse. The pulse length is directly calibrated using photocurrent autocorrelation. Magnetic excitations in Fe microstructures are studied by time-resolved Kerr spectroscopy. An ultrafast response time (within less than 10 ps of the magnetization) to the subterahertz electromagnetic field pulse is shown.
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