Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Resonance fluorescence

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Resonance fluorescence is fluorescence from an atom or molecule in which the light emitted is at the same frequency as the light absorbed. [1] In resonance fluorescence, a photon is absorbed, causing an electron to jump to a higher level from which, after a delay, it falls back to its original level, emitting a photon having the same energy as the one absorbed. The emission direction is random.

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  1. "Resonance Fluorescence" (pdf). IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology. IUPAC. 1997. Retrieved 2007-06-01.