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The advent of quantum mechanics led early in the 20th century to a rigorous quantitative description of the phenomenon of spontaneous emission from excited atomic states. The fields of nonlinear electronics and nonlinear optics (NLO) have gone through a conceptually similar process. The quantum formulation of the optical parametric amplifier and oscillator led to the prediction and soon afterwards to the demonstration of parametric spontaneous fluorescence (PSF).
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