Phaser emitter
A phaser emitter was a key component in starship and hand-held phasers. The emitter was equivalent to the "barrel of a gun", as it was the focal point from which the phaser beam ("the bullet") was fired.

Ship-mounted
From 2245 to 2270, ship-mounted phaser emitters were built into the hulls of Starfleet vessels and were operated from a control room by a small crew as a backup to bridge control. ()

In the 2270s, phaser emitter designs had improved and the new design routed power directly from the warp engines, which increased their effectiveness and strength. The only drawback was that if an antimatter imbalance occurred, the phasers would be automatically cut off. ()

Ship-mounted emitters were typically arranged into phaser banks. The normal arrangement was one or two emitters to a bank. () Phaser banks and their emitters were later replaced by phaser arrays in the 24th century on more modern starships. Smaller vessels such as shuttlecraft and Maquis fighters continued to use phaser emitters, however. ()

In 2293, the location on phaser emitters on the dorsal side of the  was labeled on the master systems display on the ship's bridge. There were five phaser emitters in the primary hull and two phaser emitters in the aftmost section of the secondary hull. They were designated as type 8 phaser emitters. ()

In 2372, the deflector of the  was modified to perform as a single-shot phaser emitter when the ship was under attack from a Jem'Hadar attack ship in the atmosphere of a Class J gas giant. () 

In 2375, Nog, acting as a representative of Miles O'Brien, bought a phaser emitter from the  in a convoluted trade that also involved the , in order to eventually acquire a graviton stabilizer. ()

Hand-weapons
Phaser emitters formed part of the main component of hand phasers.

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