In the operation of a laser

a. stimulated emission occurs.
b. there is a population inversion.
c. the excited state will tend to be metastable.
d. the photons emitted will have transitioned to the ground state.
e. For the answers (a), (b), (c), and (d), three are correct and one is incorrect.


e

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