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In this chapter we will investigate the basic quantum-mechanical effects and relations that allow the realization of a laser and determine the properties of laser operation. These are the fundamental processes of absorption, spontaneous emission and stimulated emission of light and their quantum-mechanical description.
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Eichhorn, M. (2014). Quantum-Mechanical Fundamentals of Lasers. In: Laser Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05128-4_1
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