Port-wine birthmarks, which are caused by malformed capillaries close to the skin, can be removed with laser pulses. laser light of the right color will pass through the skin with little absorption but will be strongly absorbed by oxyhemoglobin in the blood of these capillaries, which destroys them without damaging adjacent tissue. a typical system uses a series of 6900 w pulses of 585 nm laser light. each pulse lasts 0.45 ms. how many photons are in each pulse?

Some material consisting of a collection of microscopic objects is kept at a high temperature. a photon detector capable of detecting photon energies from infrared through ultraviolet observes photons emitted with energies of 0.3 ev, 0.5 ev, 0.8 ev, 2.0ev, 2.5ev, and 2.8ev. these are the only photon energies observed. (a) draw and label a possible energy-level diagram for one of the microscopic objects, which has four bound states. on the diagram, indicate the transitions corresponding to the emitted photons. explain briefly. (b) would a spring–mass model be a good model for these microscopic objects? why or why not? (c) the material is now cooled down to a very low temperature, and the photon detector stops detecting photon emissions. next, a beam of light with a continuous range of energies from infrared through ultraviolet shines on the material, and the photon detector observes the beam of light after it passes through the material. what photon energies in this beam of light are observed to be significantly reduced in intensity (“dark absorption lines”)? explain briefly.