photoenergy

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ energy

Noun

photoenergy (countable and uncountable, plural photoenergies)

1. (physics) The energy of a system of photons or other wavepackets
   • 2015, Jie Yang, Markus Guehr, Theodore Vecchione, Matthew S. Robinson, Renkai Li, Nick Hartmann, Xiaozhe Shen, Ryan Coffee, Jeff Corbett, Alan Fry, Kelly Gaffney, Tais Gorkhover, Carsten Hast, Keith Jobe, Igor Makasyuk, Alexander Reid, Joseph Robinson, Sharon Vetter, Fenglin Wang, Stephen Weathersby, Charles Yoneda, Martin Centurion, Xijie Wang, “Diffractive imaging of a molecular rotational wavepacket with femtosecond Megaelectronvolt electron pulses”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     For photoexcited molecules, the nuclear dynamics determine the photoenergy conversion path and efficiency.