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gaps between energy levels are on the order of hundreds of nanometers or smaller. The Franck-Condon principle states that, due to nuclear motion being much slower in comparison to electronic motion, the electronic transitions occur in a linear fashion and will only result in an excitation to an energy level if the incident radiation is equivalent in energy to the energy gap and if the probability of the initial and final wave functions overlap significantly.

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