photo echo

noun

A form of resonance sometimes observed as a coherent pulse of light after two similar pulses have traversed a medium.

Meanings

nounphoto echo (plural photo echoes)

plural photo echoes

  1. natural sciencesA form of resonance sometimes observed as a coherent pulse of light after two similar pulses have traversed a medium.
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