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Technologies involving the generation of light are becoming increasingly important in our everyday lives. We rely on telecom lasers to transfer our data, when we want to access the internet (Renner in IEEE J Quantum Electron 23:641, 1987, [1]; Arafin et al. in IEEE J Sel Top Quantum Electron 23:1–9, 2017, [2]), energy efficient LEDs to light our homes (Anikeeva et al. in Nano Lett 9:2532–2536, 2009, [3]; Shirasaki et al. in Nat Photonics 7:13–23, 2013, [4]) and recently organic/2D materials are enabling ultra-thin flexible LED’s and smart phone screens (Ahn and Hong in Nat Nanotechnol 9:737–738, 2014, [5]; Han et al. in Nat Photonics 6:105–110, 2012, [6]). All these examples are classical light sources; they emit a large number of photons which can be considered as a classical wave, with a higher intensity corresponding to the square of the amplitude of the wave increasing.
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Woodhead, C. (2018). Introduction. In: Enhancing the Light Output of Solid-State Emitters. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95013-6_1
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