College Physics
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Author: Paul Peter Urone, Roger Hinrichs
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 30, Problem 33PE
(a) What energy photons can pump chromium atoms in a ruby laser from the ground state to its second and third excited states? (b) What are the wavelengths of these photons? Verify that they are in the visible part of the spectrum.
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