Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission — Study Resources & PYQs
Spontaneous emission, stimulated emission and Einstein's coefficients and their relations.
- Estimated study time: 60 minutes
Study resources
- Laser: Fundamentals and Applications - IIT Kanpur (Article) — Week 2 is stimulated emission and Einstein's coefficients, covering both spontaneous and stimulated emission.
- Introduction to Laser - NPTEL (Article) — Week 1 derives the Einstein A and B coefficients and their relations, starting from spontaneous and stimulated emission.
- Wikipedia - Stimulated Emission (Article) — Wikipedia article explaining stimulated emission, Einstein's 1916 prediction, and how it differs from spontaneous emission.
- Atomic and Molecular Physics - LASER: Einstein's Coefficients (Video) — Lecture explaining the three radiation-matter interaction processes: stimulated absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission.
- Relation between Spontaneous and Stimulated Emissions (Einstein's Coefficients) (Video) — Short, focused video deriving the relation between Einstein's A and B coefficients for laser physics.
- Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission - Laser in Physics (Prof. Jyoti Nimbhorkar) (Video) — Video covering population inversion and comparison of three-level vs four-level laser system energy diagrams.
Taught in these subjects
- APPLIED ENGINEERING PHYSICS — BPHT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Advanced Engineering Physics — BST1203 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu