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An electron of a fluorophore at the ground state (S0) receives energy from the absorption of a single photon of light which results in an excitation transition to a higher energy state (absorption). When the excited electron relaxes to the ground state, following vibrational losses, energy, lower than the incident photon and thus with a higher wavelength, is emitted as a single photon which causes fluorescence.
