microflash

plural microflashes

1. artsA flash of extremely short duration.

   Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.

   2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283

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   A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.

   1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31