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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 745871, 6 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/745871
Research Article

Probability Densities for Fluorescent Photons Emitted by a Two-State Atom Driven by a Laser

Robertsen A. Riehle and Henk F. Arnoldus

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, P.O. Drawer 5167, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5167, USA

Received 20 September 2012; Accepted 14 November 2012

Academic Editors: J. M. Girkin, D. Poitras, and M. Potasek

Copyright © 2012 Robertsen A. Riehle and Henk F. Arnoldus. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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