undercoupling

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noun

The act of coupling two tuned transformers so as to create a narrower bandwidth.

Opposite
overcoupling
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Meanings

nounundercoupling (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebusinessThe act of coupling two tuned transformers so as to create a narrower bandwidth.

    We observe continuous transition of the coupling between the fiber-taper waveguide and the microresonator from undercoupling to critical coupling and then to overcoupling regimes by increasing the pump power even though the spatial distance between the resonator and the waveguide was kept fixed.

    181105 (2016), Motoki Asano, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Weijian Chen, Rikizo Ikuta, Lan Yang, Nobuyuki Imoto, Takashi Yamamoto, “Controlling slow and fast light and dynamic pulse-splitting with tunable optical gain in a whispering-gallery-mode microcavity”, in Appl. Phys. Lett., volume 181105

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
overcoupling

Origin

From under- + coupling.

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