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We studied experimentally the amplification of light beam reflected from a plane boundary, where a gain medium is placed in the transmitted beam region. It is shown that the reflected light beam is amplified due to the stimulated emission of photons from the dye molecules coupled to the evanescent wave. The experimental result is compared with the quantum theory developed recently, and the meaning of photon is reexamined.
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Choi, H.H., Kim, H., Noh, J., Jhe, W. (2003). An experiment on the stimulated emission of the evanescent photon. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_155
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