phototrigger

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ trigger

Noun

phototrigger (plural phototriggers)

1. A trigger enabled by light
   • 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^[1]:

     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.

Verb

phototrigger (third-person singular simple present phototriggers, present participle phototriggering, simple past and past participle phototriggered)

1. To trigger photochemically

Related terms

• phototriggerable