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We present a characterization of active media with respect to energy levels and line broadening. We differ between two-level based lasers and energy-ladder based lasers.
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Renk, K.F. (2012). The Active Medium: Energy Levels and Lineshape Functions. In: Basics of Laser Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23565-8_4
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