Patent ID: 8754322

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving light; absorbing first energy from a first photon of the received light, the first photon including first energy below an activation energy threshold level of a photon activated process; absorbing second energy from a second photon of the received light, the second photon including second energy below the activation energy threshold level of the photon activated process, the second energy collaborating with the first energy to produce third energy, the third energy being greater than both the first energy and the second energy and less than or equal to a combination of the first energy and the second energy, where the third energy exceeds the activation energy threshold level; and driving the photon activated process using the third energy; wherein absorbing is effectuated through photon trapping using a micro ring resonator having a plurality of photon absorbers disposed around the resonator, wherein the photon absorbers comprise nano-scale structures configured to increase a cross section for multi-photon absorption, wherein the nano-scale structures comprise materials with nanoscopic metal particles configured to support surface Plasmon waves that resonate around the nanoscopic metal particles, and wherein the materials comprise stained glass.