incouple

English

Etymology

in- +‎ couple

Verb

incouple (third-person singular simple present incouples, present participle incoupling, simple past and past participle incoupled)

1. To transfer incoming energy (usually light) to an electronic device.
   • 1996, Nonlinear Optics, page 70:

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

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

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

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

     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.