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The time evolution of the process of excitation of an atom in the field of a laser wave is considered. It is shown that there exist three stages of relaxation. The first stage carries the most complete information about the mechanism of the interaction of the field with material inside the laser source.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 23–27, June, 1981.
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Veklenko, B.A. Excitation of an atom by a nonmonochromatic electromagnetic field. Soviet Physics Journal 24, 498–502 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892943
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