The contribution of the saturation field to the noise figure of a three-level maser is calculated. It is shown that the effect is very small, under ordinary circumstances.Certain aspects of spontaneous-emission noise are considered. It is shown that the spontaneous-emission equivalent temperature for a free-electron vacuum-tube amplifier is one-half that of a maser.The possibility of eliminating spontaneous-emission noise is considered and it is concluded that more general quantum-mechanical amplifiers can in principle be constructed which will not have spontaneous-emission noise.