photocounter

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

photo- +‎ counter

Noun[edit]

photocounter (plural photocounters)

  1. A device that counts photons.
    • 2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      Generalized complete Bell polynomials are used in order to compute joint moments and joint cumulants of multivariate photocounters.
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