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photo- +‎ reflectance

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photoreflectance (plural photoreflectances)

  1. (physics) reflectance that varies according to the incident light level
    • 2015, Christian Schneider, Peter Gold, Stephan Reitzenstein, Sven Hoefling, Martin Kamp, “Quantum dot micropillar cavities with quality factors exceeding 250,000”, in arXiv[1]:
      We observe a pronounced dependency of the quality factor on the measurement scheme, and find that significantly larger quality factors can be extracted in photoreflectance compared to photoluminescence measurements.