incouple

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ couple.

Verb

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

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.