phototrigger

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noun

A trigger enabled by light

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounphototrigger (plural phototriggers)

plural phototriggers

  1. A trigger enabled by light

    A gun driven by optically-generated single-cycle THz pulses provides a practical solution to enable not only GV/m surface fields but also absolute timing stability, since the pulses are generated by the same laser as the phototrigger.

    2016, W. Ronny Huang, Arya Fallahi, Xiaojun Wu, Huseyin Cankaya, Anne-Laure Calendron, Koustuban Ravi, Dongfang Zhang, Emilio A. Nanni, Kyung-Han Hong, Franz X. Kärtner, “Terahertz-driven, all-optical electron gun”, in arXiv
verbphototrigger (third-person singular simple present phototriggers, present participle phototriggering, simple past and past participle phototriggered)

present singular third person phototriggers · participle present phototriggering · participle past phototriggered · past phototriggered

  1. To trigger photochemically

Origin

From photo- + trigger.

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APA

phototrigger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phototrigger

MLA

“phototrigger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phototrigger. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phototrigger,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phototrigger.

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