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Albert Einstein was the first to realize that stimulated emission and spontaneous emission goes hand in hand. In his famous 1917 paper 1, he showed that his A and B coefficients are intimately coupled.
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Björk, G., Yamamoto, Y., Heitmann, H. (1995). Spontaneous Emission Control in Semiconductor Microcavities. In: Burstein, E., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Confined Electrons and Photons. NATO ASI Series, vol 340. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1963-8_16
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