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incouple en · VERB

Etymology

From in- + couple.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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