incouple

present singular third person incouples · participle present incoupling · participle past incoupled · past incoupled

1. To transfer incoming energy (usually light) to an electronic device.

   The atoms are incoupled via the reversed Raman scheme, emitting probe photons.

   2008, Vladimír Bužek, Antonino Messina, A. Napoli, Advances and Perspectives in Quantum Optics, page 338

   2 more examples

   In order to characterize the nonlinear switching light was incoupled in only one coupler arm.

   1996, Nonlinear Optics, page 70

   Optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy utilizes the change in resonance angle of polarized light diffracted by a grating and incoupled into a thin waveguide layer upon binding.

   2013, Helen Bridle, Waterborne Pathogens: Detection Methods and Applications, page 202