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In this chapter, we study spontaneous and stimulated emission phenomenologically, as well as an elementary laser theory.
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Orszag, M. (2024). Einstein’s Theory of Atom–Radiation Interaction. In: Quantum Optics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54853-6_1
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